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I seriously believe this election would of been tighter if McCain would of ran more of the McCain in 2000 than he did here. In fact his final speech was more like he was then, than how he had campaign up to that point. The only flaw I see with that, is I do not think the McCain of 2000 would have any chance in the Republican primary.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_15:25:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3553028, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552270": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "thank you, D. <br><br>we are all Americans.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:00:35", "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": 3551829, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550226": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have to edit your statement just a little bit Ronnie so I can officially co-sign.<br><br>eehh emmmm (clearing throat) <br><br>As proud as I am of President-elect Obama, I'm equally proud of Black, White, Hispanic and all other Non-White Americans' intellect, organization, sacrifice, and discipline in putting Obama where he is.   <br><br>I am just recognizing that he couldn't do this with just the support of the blacks.  It took the collective effort of all races.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:50:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3550109, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3551251": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We certainly crossed the finish line together.  And we shall go forward together for the rest of our American days.<br><br>But I seek to acknowledge the special, unique and incomparable preparation of this moment, by generations of Black Americans--from today's hip hop generation to first-generation Africans.  <br><br>Make no mistake; this moment is all of ours to share.   And I love that I can share it with my fellow Rainbow brethren.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_10:02:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3550226, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3565595": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  Thank you.    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-06_02:02:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3552213, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The day John McCain picked her to be his VP is the day he lost the election.<br><br>Sarah Palin does not know her role.<br><br>People complained about Joe Biden and his gaffes and Biden in general but Biden knew his role and stayed in his place.<br><br>Biden knew he was #2, not #1.<br><br>Sarah Palin thought she was #1, and John McCain's efforts to smack her back down to #2 and cleaning up after her wasted a lot of time.<br><br>I don't see a future in national politics for her.  She cannot be trusted.  If she wants to be #1, she needs to stay her ass right in Alaska.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:30:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3548732, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Kerry: 'Tonight new dreams are born'<br><br>\"Tonight we elected a President who has inspired a majority of Americans with his vision and policies, a man who is principally a leader for these times who happens to also be African American; and because of America\u2019s stunning ability to move on and transform, to write a new chapter of our history, Barack Obama will be President during the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights movement and the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.<br><br><a href=\"http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04/john-kerry-tonight-new-dreams-are-born/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:52:27", "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}, "3548199": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  I hope that this is NOT a duplicate.  Sorry.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/reactions-around-the-worl_n_141187.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/reacti...</a><br><b>Reactions Around The World!!</b><br><br><i>People around the world were celebrating the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.<br><br>See election reactions around the U.S.<br><br>Kenya, where Obama's relatives were singing in the streets \"We are going to the White House!\", has declared Wednesday a national holiday after Barack Obama.<br><br>See how people around the world kept themselves busy on election day.<br><br>Read more about Election Results.<br><br>See photos of Barack Obama on election day, John McCain on election day, Sarah Palin on election day, and Joe Biden on election day.</I>  You can IGNORE the McAncient/<b>UN-VETTED ONE</b> pics/<br><br>President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama!!  YES HE CAN!    :&gt;)</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_04:10:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Just a few thoughts:<br><br>1.  I am so glad Obama won this election and proud to witness such a historical moment.  I couldn't stop grinning as I walked to work!<br><br>2.  Now that he will be the next president, we have to be objective about his position.  It will take him awhile (longer than one term i suspect) to clean up the sh*t from the last 8+ years.  He WILL make mistakes along the way.  As a people,  we should hold him responsible for his actions and not give him a free pass based on his color.  However, as people we need to support him in positive efforts to make changes, which brings me to my next point.<br><br>3.  We have got to come together as people and as a nation.  I observed this website for awhile and noticed that Republicans tend to get ripped up one side and down the other in blogs and comments.  Alright, enough is enough.  Put down the pitchforks and torches and stop picking on each other.  We need to remember that this country is special because we are allowed to have different opinions.  Remember, there are black Republicans who didn't want Obama in office and their are white Republicans who wanted him to be president.  I personally don't care if a Democrat or Republican is in office.  I just want someone to fix this mess that's been brewing for last two terms!    Obama has a hard road ahead of him and he CAN'T do it by himself.  Moses couldn't lead the Israelites unless they rallied behind him as one.  Obama can't lead this nation if we don't rally behind him as one.<br><br>4.  In accordance with the glass fence that encased Obama while he gave his speech last night,  I think he should get his own pope mobile. :P  Seriously though,  I am praying that we don't have to relive the JFK tragedy...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:08:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "45d42aefb9a576dbc10611bb452b1066", "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": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am heading over to the many Nobama websites. Hopefully I can get out safely. Last time I went on those sites, I got my email hacked, I got death threats as well as some other stuff. Forget youtube.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:29:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3553837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey JJP, I know you guys are excited but there are too many threads. I don't know where to comment?<br><br>Anyways, I think yesterday broke a record. I havent seen so many grown black men crying in my entire life!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:14:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:       <b>ANSWER:</b>    BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!   :&gt;)<br><br><b>QUESTION:</b>   \"WHYCOME\" you are JUST getting home from COUNTING the BALLOTS at your polling place, WHEN the <b> 44th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</b> and his family have been home and have gone to bed??  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Whew!!  **shaking my head while RAOTFL**  Deep Breaths!!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I'm SERIOUS.  At 8:00pm we closed the poll.  At, approximately 8:35 pm, some man came to the poll to vote.  I broke the sad news that we had closed the poll [as prescribed by law] at 8:00 pm.  As he was leaving the room, he turned around and said  - Oh! BTW  - John McCain is about to give his <b>CONSESSION SPEECH!!</b><br><br>We have a <b>NEW PRESIDENT!</b>  And because I was trying to pull a President Obama \"cool persona\", I said O.K.  Then I went to the Ladies Room  and CRIED and THANKED THE LORD!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>THIS WAS A HAPPY and BLESSED  DAY!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_03:26:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547193": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I CRIED LIKE A BABY!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:29:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "barry4obama", "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}, "3548732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "SHE'LL BE BAAACK<br><br>skip<br><br>But Republican leaders say the election was just the beginning for Sarah Palin.<br>Despite coming under fire for her inexperience, insiders say she is already being groomed to run for the presidency in 2012.<br>She even let slip her own ambitions last week, saying in a TV interview that she\u2019s \u2018not doing all this for naught'.<br>And should her presidential ambitions full flat, Hollywood has also come calling.<br>Several top producers are vying to see if she can turn her popularity among the country\u2019s conservatives into TV ratings.<br>Now Joe Biden will be filling the vacant VP job in Washington, network executives are sharpening their pitches to try and persuade her to capitalise on her new found celebrity.<br>Her self-mocking appearance on Saturday Night Live, with lookalike star Tina Fey and actor Alec Baldwin, only heightened Palin fever in Hollywood.<br>\u2018Any television person who sees the numbers when she appears on anything would say Sarah Palin would be great,\u2019 said veteran morning-show producer Steve Friedman.<br>\u2018The passion she has on each side, love and hate, makes television people say, \"Wow, imagine the viewership\".\u2018<br>According to the Hollywood Reporter, most industry insiders believe an Oprah Winfrey-style daytime talk show will be the probable route for the 44-year-old.<br>They think her folksy, straight-shooting personality would be an immediate hit with the predominantly female audience.<br>'I see her less a variety show host like Ellen De Generes and more of a single-topic host like Tyra Banks,\u2019 said one top TV producer.<br>Cable news is another possibility and perhaps easier to fit in with her day job. Mike Huckerbee, who lost out to John McCain in the Republican primaries, has just begun his own weekly show on Fox News.<br>One producer has even floated the idea - only half-jokingly - of taking advantage of the curiosity surrounding the entire Palin clan and their Alaska setting and packaging a reality show called \u2018The Palins\u2019 as a mixture of The Osbournes and Northern Exposure.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1083142/Boos-mar-John-McCains-gracious-concession-hints-just-beginning-Sarah-Palin.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1083142...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_05:36:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3565642": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rorysmomma:      Annnnd, I am humbled!   Thank you!  :&lt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-06_02:09:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3550288, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The same exact thing happened 2 me!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:16:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3547752, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Green lady I am singing  \"You know you're a special lady....\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:55:50", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3548903, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3565650": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Val:  Thank you!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-06_02:11:01", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3550163, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547733": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  Rev. Joe Watkins STILL cain't give it up for Mr. President!!<br><br>Wonder IFFF it HURTS to be such a \"HATA\" and a Rev.?  Hmmf!<br><br>President- Elect  \"BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!  YES HE CAN!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_03:33:22", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3565658": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MsKitty:  U   R   welcome!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-06_02:12:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3549962, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3551324": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I just watched a segment of Morning Joe where he really showed it.  Actually, he was okay and Mika was the one struggling...  Both were trying to push this \"post-racial\" stuff.  (And I caught John McWhorter on CNN doing the same in his usual smug manner.)<br><br>Oh but at the mention of Rohm Emmanuel being Obama's Chief of Staff...  Joe couldn't let the hate go.  Mark Halperin and Dark Sith (?) tried to talk him down and stress Emmanuel's centrist bonafides but Joe was stuck on hate and his ideological issue with him claiming Emmanuel is the Democratic version of Tom Delay and would be seen that way as Chief of Staff by Republicans.<br><br>But what really got them all was the realization that there are no Republican congresspersons in New England with the way the elections turned out from Maine to Connecticut, etc.<br><br>...............<br><br>Oh and Tucker Carlson is crying his azz off...   Bringing up Hillary Clinton ( \"she was treated so bad and why are people acting like all of us that didn't vote for Obama are racist or against racial progress\" paraphrase).<br><br>Unbelieveable!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_10:08:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "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": 3550598, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550816": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "RAOTFL! Hysterical!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:33:44", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3550662, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3565668": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nickwah22:  I did!!  :&gt;)   Annnnnd, I practice!!  Thank you!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-06_02:13:56", "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": 3549333, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547752": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "hey guys, <br><br>What a night to have computer problems. Heck, I missed some of the celebrations with you guys. I have no voice. It's gone and my throat is raw from screaming and crying. <br>When it was announced that Barack Obama is the next president, I started screaming and fell to the floor.....it was all over then! God, it is real! It is real!<br><br> President Barack Obama! Woo Hoo!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_03:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea4c75f526ecf383a79e5d0885e526e7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547495": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think Obama said it best tonight, when he talked about this moment is merely the opportunity to change things; nevertheless, what we have all done today is truly amazing, and hopefully it will help break down some of the remaining bridges that exist in our hearts and minds.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_03:01:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "221b30279626df477e44fb7291a9fd92", "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}, "3547761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah: Ya see, the OBAMAs didn't JUST pick out their clothing today! <br><br>I'm believin' that HE KNEW!! HE has always been ANOINTED!  THANK YOU GOD!!  :&gt;)<br><br>PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Hussein Obama!  YES HE CAN!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_03:37:37", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552375": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Honestly, I LOVE the idea of a Palin family reality show.  That would be some entertaining, dysfunctional sh1t.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:06:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "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": 3548732, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wanted NC or GA. I am so excited!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:33:55", "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": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3547249, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547775": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_03:38:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea4c75f526ecf383a79e5d0885e526e7", "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": 3547051, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547781": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Indeed", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_03:39:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea4c75f526ecf383a79e5d0885e526e7", "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": 3547002, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3565681": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "caludia_m:  Thank you!  I soooo much ENJOY being at JJP  - with y'all!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-06_02:16:01", "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": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3549068, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Barry, I had family over we had a long day and I didn't cry. But, when I got still alone I cried and it was ugly, lol", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:34:40", "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": 3547193, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550487": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama Celebrates Election With Victory Album<br><br>Get your album today.<br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-celebrates-election_n_141247.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:12:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3548303": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": ":-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_04:26:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3547752, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "JJai:  Get the \"key\" from my post on Tuesday!!  JJP CHOIR   -  unite!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_03:40:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3547051, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good Night, JJP!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:35:31", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549333": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You sound like you had fun!! You are crazy btw haha", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_07:25:46", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3548903, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549335": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As I watched the results everything seemed to be moving in slow motion.  It was not until President Elect Obama spoke that the reality hit me.  <br><br>Even though I participated here, contributed to the campaign and encouraged others to do the same last night still blew me away.  I am thrilled that we were all successful but there was a small part of me that was not sure we would be and that makes me a little sad.<br><br>I pray for Pres. Obama and his family and his administration for the road ahead will be a challenging one but I have every confidence that he will rise to the occasion.<br><br>Peace.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_07:26:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "DWS2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": 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}, "3550363": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Please say a prayer for Cindy Mccain guys.... She seriously may make a swan dive, if Mccain doesn't beat her into submission first.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:01:48", "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": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547249": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It looks like O won NC too....they're showing 100% reporting with about a 11,000 vote lead.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:33:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3565743": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "D:  Chin up!!!  Life is going on!!   Annnnnnnnnd HOW!!!   :&gt;)<br><br>THANK YOU!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-06_02:26:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3550200, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3554992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Even better, just put the Palins on a \"very special\" Jerry Springer Show.  Then again, maybe Maury would be a better choice since there's some baby mystery issues.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_13:11:20", "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": 3552375, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "kalagenesis:  Co-signing!  When I started counting the ballots and saw all those M/P votes!  I got mad!!  Out of ALL that they had seen and heard, some people could STILL vote for that \"ILLITERATE PAIR!\"  -uh!   uh!   Uh!  THEY are SHAMEFUL!!<br><br>Unfortunately, they won't get what they deserve   - a M/P administration!!   HAH!!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_03:45:23", "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": 3547108, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549367": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "buh bye southern strategy! FL, NC, possibly GA?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_07:30:01", "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": 3548296, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3555004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NEW WEDNESDAY OPEN THREAD IS UP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_13:11:49", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549384": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was hoping for a Usain Bolt type finish and I surely got it.<br><br>I wonder how that G-10/G-15 (whatever it is) meeting is going to go now that President Elect BO is going to be running thangs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_07:33:20", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3553993": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I truly enjoy TD Jakes preaching, but I was completely distracted by his lisp (never knew he had one). During the times he was speaking I was reading JJP. lol<br><br>Did he say something that struck a cord with you?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:22:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3553660, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552462": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yea I saw all of that. I was very annoyed by Mika constantly trying to promote that \"post-racial\" garbege. People keeping saying that and it is ruining by celebration.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:10:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3551324, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549916": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If that's wrong, I don't want to be right LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:27:39", "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": 3549404, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550943": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yesterday was a good day. <br>Today is an even better day. <br>And I'm excited for tomorrow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:41:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "5ba68360301d2a83c640ce48fb0e96cf", "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}, "3547868": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And a Rev at that!!!!  He's a jealous hater and a bootlicker!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_03:51:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea4c75f526ecf383a79e5d0885e526e7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3547733, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3546854": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm gonna be so sleepy at work tomorrow...but I can't sleep!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_01:53:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3548903": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah:  I am EXHAUSTED  -Up since 5:30am on Tuesday.  Annnnnnd still awake!  Will probably \"crash\"  - BIG TIME on WED.  :&gt;)     :&gt;)  <br><br>BUT, I have ta bring you some of the \"SIGHTS and SOUNDS\" from my \"poll working\" experience.<br><br>1.  One of my responsibilities was to give the \"I VOTED\" stickers to ALL.  Most of the time, I handed it to them, BUT, some people said, \"You can put it on!\"  So I accommodated  - UNTIL  -  this one old  \"non-melanin\" man asked me to put it on him and then said  -  \"PRESS HARDER!\"  I, professionally, took him aside and said  - \"Ya need to slow your roll  \"OLD DUDE!\"  This is NOT a massage parlor!!  I told him that I could report him for some kind of \"harassment!\"  He got scurred and apologized!  WT freak?  :&gt;)<br><br>2.  A tender moment: A young \"AA husband/wife\" took a picture with their baby son after they voted.  I believe that this was the FIRST Time that they voted!  It was nice!   :&gt;)<br><br>3. I was working the table  \"M    -     Z\".  And I saw and heard this Hispanic male [kinda 40-ish] riled up!  He Then looked down the line of people at me and said - very loudly -  \"Is the the Barack Obama line??\"  \"I ain't votin' for no John McCain!\"<br><br>The majority of the voters were white and they had the strangest looks on their faces.  I \"professionally\" smiled [BUT CRACKED UP INSIDE] and said that you could vote for your candidate at in any booth!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   LAWD HA\"MERCY!!  IT WAS FUNNY!!!   :&gt;)<br><br>3.  This made me CRY.  I had ta \"step outside.\"  One voter was a \"somewhat mentally-challenged\" 30-ish AA male.  This was his first time voting.  He sought me out and asked if I could help him with his voting since he didn't know how to do it.  YES I helped him!  And after he turned in his ballot with a BIG SMILE, his came back to me and said \"THANK YOU!\"  I held myself together long ENOUGH to be able to get out of that room to get my \"CRY ON!\"<br><br>THAT was a \"special moment!\"<br><br>4.  Then there was the matter of the \"SUPERVISOR\" with \"IMPULSIVITY ISSUES!\"  I knew the procedures used to search for the name of a voter.  So, did she have to ask me IFFFF I checked BOTH LISTS!!  I turned to her and in my best JJP form, I said - <b>TRUST!!</b>  She just looked at me like a deer in headlights!  Funny moment!  :&gt;)<br><br>5.  Had ta use my \"bi-lingual skills\" when speaking to some of my poll-worker buddies.  One of them asked me where the \"resource book\"  was.  I said,  \"I don't know.  Maybe you could ask Carol.   She can <b>\"HOOK YOU UP!\"</b>  Wellllll,  after her quizzical look  - I went \"bi-lingual\" on her and said,  \"Maybe she <b>CAN HELP YOU!\"</b>  then she said.  Oh.  O.K.  I'll ask her.  :&gt;)    :&gt;)  LAWD HE'P!!  **shakin' my head** :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>6.  Then there was Mr. Romero  - early 40-ish.  While he was signing in he said  -\"Welll, this is a VERY HISTORICAL ELECTION!\" **little smirk**  I'm hoping that things will come out for the VERY BEST!  **thumbs up**  I said I SURE HOPE SO 2!!  **smile**<br><br>Then he said, \"We're communicating  - huh?\"  I fell out laughing   -   professionally, of course.  :&gt;)<br><br>After he voted, he returned his ballot and said  - \"Make sure my ballot counts a lot!\"  **smile**  Then he walked off, **fingers in a \"V\"** and said,  \"See you at the \"VICTORY CELEBRATION tonight!!\"  Mentally,  I went ta RAOTFL - hysterically!!!<br><br>\"Home-boy\" was on a roll and a mission  - to VOTE for President-Elect Barack H. Obama!!  This was a great moment!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>YES, I enjoyed THIS TIME  - WORKING THE POLLS!!<br><br>PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Hussein Obama!!  YES HE DID!!  :&gt;)  God Bless!<br><br>O.K.  I'm \"CRASHING!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_06:14:25", "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": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547880": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hiding. Covering his ears! I'm kidding!!! lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_03:52:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea4c75f526ecf383a79e5d0885e526e7", "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": 3547705, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552495": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yeah, that really moved me.  Those young kids wanted Bush to move out immediately.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:12:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "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": 3546899, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3565695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Suprk:  U   R     very kind!!  Yes, I slept peacefully because of this \"HISTORICAL MOMENT!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Hats off to y'all/JJP!!   :&gt;)   God Bless ALL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-06_02:19:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3548961, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550080": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm exhausted, have the hangover from hell, the coffee hasn't kicked in yet, but it's a great day.  I think I'm still in disbelief that America came through and did the right thing for once.  I just keep thinking back to the moment when the election was called.  We were whooping, hollering, high fiving each other.  And then I thought about my Mom, and the tears came like Niagara Falls.  You see, Mom was a political junkie (I talked yesterday about how she went into labor with me while watching the '64 returns) and she would have loved this election, and she would have been over the moon right now.  Even more ironic, Inauguration Day will be on what would have been Mom's 70th birthday.  But I know she's smiling wherever she is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:39:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3546882": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "and I couldn't sleep last night either as I was so excited to vote today!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_01:56:19", "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": 3546854, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3553028": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For that, you have to look at the 2012 election, as the party not in power always makes gains in the midterm elections.<br><br>The GOP has gotta listen to people. That's where it all starts. We've been bashing people's heads in with a message of \"compassionate conservatism\" that has shown to be neither. The (stereo)typical conservative's problems aren't always the problems of all Americans. Once we've heard from the people, <i>then</i> we can present our beliefs as solutions. <b>But</b>, we have to practice them first, or else we're hypocrites.<br><br>I think that 2012 may be the extreme right's last stand. A McCain/Romney ticket might not have lost as badly as McCain/Palin, but she was needed to secure the far right. I suggested a while back that Palin and Dobson should run together, so we can just get them out of the way.<br><br>We have no grassroots, no strategy, and a presentation problem. If we can fix those issues, the GOP will survive. If not, I could see the Libertarians and more moderate conservatives breaking. Problem is, when Republicans/conservatives break, they're thrown bones to get them back in line (in the form of maintaining our present and future viability). <br><br>We have to learn to throw the bones back, and let the people carry us over.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:41:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3552252, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549962": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks for sharing your experiences GreenLady.  Sounded like it was a great day.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:31:06", "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": 3548903, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "RAOTFLMAO!<br><br><br>Rorysmomma - what's happening?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:12:07", "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": 3550363, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3546899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Storming the Bastille?<br><br>\"Evict Bush NOW\"<br>Outside the White House People Demand Eviction NOW!<br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7BY0NSfst9g\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7BY0NSfst9g</a><br><br>Crazy kids...lol.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_01:57:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3554070": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was captivated by his eloquence.  I could have listened to him all night.<br><br>I could live with the lisp, I suppose.<br><br>I see him as America's new Billy Graham.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:26:05", "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": 3553993, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549975": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mind if I co-sign with you all on this? LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:31:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3549404, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549976": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My God, My God! I still can't believe it. It's so surreal. I get chills of joy and pride every time I see or hear the words: President Barack Hussein Obama. <br><br>YES. WE. DID.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:31:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3554586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!! That was funny! Hilarious!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:51:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3553782, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3554077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks Rhonda. I'm going to put up another Wednesday Open Thread. <br><br>I'll contact the bloggers about this. I think we're just happy as can be, and are posting our hearts out. but, point taken.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:26:19", "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": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3553837, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3548961": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Can I say thank you for all you did, and though  you are tired, doesn't all that work feel good? Besides I know we are all able to sleep much easier now. Hats off to you GreenLadyHere", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_06:25:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3548903, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3546914": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMAO!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_01:59:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3546899, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550499": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I love the one from Legend - Pride, in the name of love", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:13:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "Val2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3550487, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3555620": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think Tavis really had an issue with sitting next to the Racial Arsonist in Chief (Pat Buchanan) and was just too down on the situation which made it look like it was both personal (ego-driven) and on the serious issue of real, substantive, structural change.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_13:40:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3554535, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3551015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Claudia, my my how we are alike. The house is destroyed and I swear I haven't written a check since Hillary lost. LOL<br><br><br>Well, not that bad but still.<br><br>Oh Seattle had people dancing in the streets last night.<br><br><a href=\"http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics/archives/153491.asp\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolit...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:47:32", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3549114, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549404": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Will I be wrong if I yell \"Go ahead! Jump! It won't hurt! I'll catch you!!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_07:35:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3549168, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3548461": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  I'm going to bring a few articles from \"Alaska\".  THEY are ECSTATIC!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>1.<br><br><a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/election-night-open-thread-yes-we-did/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/electi...</a><br><b>Election Night Open Thread  -  YES WE DID!!</b><br><br><i>What an incredible day.  It\u2019s still sinking in that we have a President Elect Obama.  I just returned from Election Central in downtown Anchorage.  Many candidates were there, and everyone was feeling very festive.  The Barack Obama campaign people came in with huge signs and the place went wild with chants of Yes We Can!  It was electric.<br><br>I will tell you all about the evening tomorrow, Mudflatters\u2026  I am so overwhelmed by this historic night that words aren\u2019t coming.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>I will continue to do what I have been doing here, although work, family, and my disaster of a house will need to take some of my time.  I was blogging before Sarah Palin\u2019s unlikely rise to the national stage, and hopefully will be doing this after her time is up.  I\u2019m not worried that Alaska will run out of muck any time soon.<br><br>(Raises glass)  To you Mudflatters, and to a brave new chapter in American history.  Yes we can.<br>  <br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>2.  <a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/president-elect-barack-obama/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/presid...</a><br><b>President Elect Barack Obama</b><br><br>Hi everyone,<br><br>Snoskred here. AKMuckraker is stuck on a new laptop unable to log in, but dropped by the chat to let me know you needed a new open thread. Here tis! Enjoy.<br><br>Oh, and as a non-American, may I be one of the first to congratulate you on the election of Barack Obama. Everyone I know here in Australia is so thrilled for you. *I* am thrilled for you.<br><br>Now, fingers crossed that Alaska turns blue. Sephyroth tells me it cannot happen, but I have faith, and I believe.. yes we can! ;)<br><br>3.  <a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/i-voted/\" rel=\"nofollow\">I VOTED!</a><br><br> filled in Mark Begich, then Ethan Berkowitz, then my local race.  I saved Obama-Biden for last.  I took a deep breath and really thought about what it took to get to this day, not only all the incredible work that has gone into this particular election, but also to have a viable African-American candidate on the ballot as nominee for the President of the United States.<br><br>I hope to see a woman in that spot too, some day.  But I want to vote for a woman who has earned her place on the ticket through her own intelligence, principles, work ethic, determination and grit, not someone who got picked as a strategic calculation, and a poor one at that.  I looked at Palin\u2019s name on the ballot.  After my deep breath, I filled in the Obama-Biden oval carefully\u2026being sure not to leave one little white space.  Then I double checked to make sure I filled in the right oval, and didn\u2019t make a horrible mistake because of my reverie.<br><br>4.  <a href=\"http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/let-the-games-begin-election-day-in-alaska/\" rel=\"nofollow\">LET THE GAMES BEGIN:  ELECTION DAY IN ALASKA!</a><br><br>The day started early.  I left the house at 6:00am, took the long drive up to Wasilla, just because I had to wave a sign at Sarh Palin as she drove by.  We never caught up with the sign waving crowd, but we did see the Governor\u2019s entourage flanked by Alaska State Trooper cars in front and back, with 12 or 15 SUVs and other vehicles in between.  The sun wasn\u2019t up yet, and it was freezing cold.  <b>I doubt she saw me with my Alaskans for Obama sign on the side of the road, but I can say I was there.</b>   I followed the motorcade on the way back into town, but never caught up.  They were in a hurry.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>Back in Anchorage, there were lots of people out smiling and waving signs at major intersections - Obama, Begich, and Berkowitz supporters were out en masse.  There were a few Don Young people, even fewer McCain Palin people, and nobody for Ted Stevens on this first pass through town today.<br><br>Next stop - voting!  I\u2019ve got my video camera, and I\u2019m ready to video my vote.</i><br><br>MUDFLATTERS have a re-newed  strength to \"rally against the <b>UN-VETTED ONE</b>  When <b>SHE RETURNS TO ALASKA!!</b>  HAH!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSt0NEESrUA\" rel=\"nofollow\">NORTH TO ALASKA!!</a></i><br><br>Whoooo!    Hoooo!    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_04:48:57", "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}, "3552560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "President Bush's statement was, for once, excellent.  Every now and then we're reminded that he actually comes from a classy, somewhat respectable, background.  Unlike that PWT Caribou, who showed up to vote yesterday looking like she was on her way to Walmart.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:15:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "60266805bc0d9559a62514e1e769b750", "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": 3552260, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3548296": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well...there maybe some issue with Georgia's numbers:<br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/12649/6674/253/653696\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/12649/6...</a><br><br>I read another diary during early voting where it seemed the AA male vote was significantly lower than the AA female vote by about 200,000(if memory serves).<br><br>They think some of the early votes have not been counted yet...   Maybe Georgia's a win after all.   :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_04:25:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3547257, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3553586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Great behind the scenes article at HuffPo:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-we-cant-solve-globa_n_141358.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-...</a><br><br>Read to the end to get Obama's (uncensored) view of the debates!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:02:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3548981": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The world is celebrating.<br><br><b>Wednesday Newspaper Front Pages(Updatedx5) US and Worldwide Edition- PRESIDENT OBAMA</b><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/04621/2283/311/653622\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/04621/2...</a><br><br><b>Pictures: President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice-President Elect Joe Biden Hotlist</b><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/11637/6643/803/646003\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/11637/6...</a><br><br><b>Election Reactions Around The Country (PHOTOS)</b><br><a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/election-reactions-around_n_141188.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/electi...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_06:30:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547448": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "iceberg:  WOW!!!   :&gt;)  THANK YOU  SOOOOO MUCH!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:55:02", "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": 3546965, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552571": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "awesome, I really wanted GA but would take NC!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:16:05", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3548296, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3553609": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rikyrah,<br>Don't be afraid to say it.  That is exactly what it was.  Everything always fell into place for him.  Granted, there was work involved, but this was meant for him.  There is no other explanation.  When it is yours, NO ONE can stop it or take it away from you!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:04:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3552157, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3554129": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jill Scott said it best when she said Hyperlink to <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw3Z8Oa7E3Y\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hate on Me</a> <br><br><br><i>Hate on me, hater<br>Now or later<br>\u2018Coz I\u2019m gonna do me<br>You\u2019ll be mad, baby<br>Go \u2018head and hate<br>Go \u2018head and hate on me, hate on<br>\u2018Coz I\u2019m not afraid of it</i><br><b>What I got I paid for</b><br><i>You can hate on me</i><br><br><br><br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw3Z8Oa7E3Y\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw3Z8Oa7E3Y</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:28:37", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3550598, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3546965": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/11637/6643/803/646003\" rel=\"nofollow\">Photos of President-Elect Barack Obama and Family</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:05:33", "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": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3554134": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Can somebody issue a grown-man Amber alert for Tavis Smiley?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:28:59", "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": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547705": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "D:  Where you at??  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_03:27:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3546971": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Michelle was GLOWING. She was just radiant. I just LOVE that black family!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:05:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552610": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Gov. Palin will not make it out of the republican primaries.Where Obama would not bring up her lack of knowledge the republican candidates will not be so kind.The sideshow of the jockeying for power that will go on in the republican party will be a hilarious sideshow while we get down to the serious business of fixing our nation.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:18:03", "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": 3548732, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3554449": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Today she was frantically trying to rejoin the human race - gushing over the historical relevance of the election.    She seems to think that now this is over,  we should all forget that in the darkest hours, she tried to kill us.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:44:06", "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": 3550663, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552618": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ok, I am ready!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:18:20", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3547793, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3554535": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I actually agreed with him when he was on Morning Joe this morning. He was trying to push back on Mika's \"post-racial\" bliss. He also spoke about the historical significance of Obama's win and how it is just the beginning. Nothing questionable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:48:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3554177, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3551085": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh, one thing. I've been following this blog for awhile. As an African American Law Enforcement officer who fully endorses Obama. I was really pissed when that Florida Deputy said that Barack Hussien Obama would be in for a rude awakening on the 5th. Looks like the GOP's world just got rocked !!!!!!!!!! Sorry for the gloat you guys !!!! I had to.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:51:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "065f1fee47165ead6a124139d082da1c", "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}, "3552629": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I've got the transcript, if that will work.<br><br>Though, I think you want video. ;)<br><br><a href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/11/20081105.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/11...</a>", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:18:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3552260, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was in Times Square last night. I brought my younger cousins and my sister and her boyfriend as well as a couple of my girlfriends.  It was like New years eve! So exciting. Then I went to a private party. All of Harlem was in the streetsI have the worse hangover right now so I am trying to catch up with everyone on JJP!<br><br>Thanks JJP for your amazing election coverage this year. There is such a great community here=)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:19:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547002": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "They just called Indiana finally! What a azz kicking!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:09:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3553660": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Did anyone catch Bishop T.D. Jakes on MSNBC last night?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:06:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3553150": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Contrary to pouplar (conservative) opinion, that we are.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:43:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3552270, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547008": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama won Indiana", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:09:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3554177": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Tavis was on some morning shows, including NBC Today Show and Morning Joe.  I turned everytime I saw him.  To quote Sylvester the Cat, \"he's des-s-s-picable!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:31:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "jdickenslaw", "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": 3554134, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547013": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thank you iceberg", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:09:53", "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": 3546965, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I hear from DKos, that Joe Scar is showing is ass again today, but Brian Williams is kinda shutting it down.  <br><br>Jealous much Joe!!!<br><br><br>Suck on it!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:18:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "fd35c4322b63b2dab06baea3e23047cf", "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": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549068": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ditto! You're awesome, GreenLady. Your encouragement, capital letters, and exclamation points have been amazing! (TRUST!) He did it, YOU did it, we did it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_06:46:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3548903, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3553172": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dammit! My cousin in DC has already promised her spare bedrooms to her sister, MY sister, and three of our other cousins. Gotta work on Plan B.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:44:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547036": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OBAMA WINS!!!!!!!<br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AT-31htGFTE\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AT-31htGFTE</a><br>MSNBC clips of various gatherings as race called for Obama...wild.<br><br>--------------------------<br>This is the Zeitgeist Election! Christopher Hitchens on BBC<br><a href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=C3vBr7ytupg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=C3vBr7ytupg</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:11:48", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "As President-elect Obama was often required to say, his faith in the American people has been vindicated. But until now, what he couldn't say--and what many of us feel today--is that <b>Black people's</b> 400-year sacrificial expenditure of body, mind, and spirit has been redeemed.  <br><br>As proud as I am of President-elect Obama, I'm equally proud of Black Americans' intellect, organization, sacrifice, and discipline in putting Obama where he is.  This is a moment in history that we deserve.  We can and certainly should share this wonderful gift with our fellow American family.  <br><br>Yet make no mistake, we have <i>earned</i> this moment of joy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:41:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "RonnieB", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550111": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "S - it's all good.<br><br>As Barack said -- He is YOUR President too.  <br><br>I have to add regarding your statement, \"As a people, we should hold him responsible for his actions and not give him a free pass based on his color.\" <br><br>As an FYI - colored people don't get free passes or were you asleep the last 2 years?  That is it from me.  Moving on. . . . yes we all need to work together to clean up the mess from the last 8 years.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:41:06", "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": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3549686, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550624": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm not grinning or smiling; the emotional weight of the last (almost) two years is still wearing off.<br><br>You're right; we do have to come together as a country and put aside the partisanship. The most cynical part of me doesn't think it can happen-at least not immediately. I hope I'm wrong.<br><br>S, me, you, and other Republicans/conservatives have <b>got</b> to find <i>our</i> way again. Yes, we took a beating last night...and already, we've taken to bemoaning the \"death of our nation.\" The Obama Administration-however long it lasts-won't be the death of America. But it sends a damn strong signal of what we have become...and how far we have to go to fix it.<br><br>To the Obama camp: again, congratulations. <br><br>And a warning-Republicans went to Washington and became the embodiment of everything that contradicts our beliefs and values. Don't make the same mistake. That is the <i>one</i> lesson you all can take from the GOP.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:20:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3549686, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3553189": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oops.<br><br>I offer my waterboarding service....but ya better find the other \"S\" before January 20.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:45:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3552219, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547051": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh my God. I am about to start singing \"we have come this far by faith\"!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:13:24", "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": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3547008, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's like it was, I hate to say it, 'divined' this way. <br><br>No disputes. No close. It was like the reward for the hell he's been through for almost 2 years was a profound statement - HE IS THE PRESIDENT. <br><br>Theyv'e already started on the next memo, though:<br><br>Well, NOW he has to govern. And what a mess it is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_10:54:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3550185, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda - I will be right there with you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:42:07", "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": 3549404, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3548599": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Justice58:  YEAH!   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_05:13:49", "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": 3547868, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550136": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LMBAO!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:42:24", "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": 3549404, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549114": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm not going to say \"I can't believe it,\" because I CAN believe it. This is a wonderful, wonderful moment.<br><br>Funny thing, now I'm thinking about all the stuff I put off because I was so caught up in this election. Have to send out those emails apologizing to my students, have to clean up my house, pay those overdue bills - LOL.<br><br>I don't think I'm ever going to take my Obama 08 bumper sticker off my car. Well, not until 2012 (when I put up his re-elect one). But I'm so glad I've already put in my order for these stickers - \"O: Our President\" - everybody needs to get one. I'm planning on giving them out as Christmas gifts!: <a href=\"http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/item/obama-shop-sticker-rectangle/295874410\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/item/obama-...</a><br><br>As Curtis Mayfield said, \"We're A Winner\"!!!!!!<br><br>Oh - one more thing: according to the latest news, Obama is winning (has won?) NC by .02 percent of the vote. Small, but that's really a big deal for the South.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_06:52:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3555779": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, both Rhondacoca and I agreed with what he was saying and the fact that his statement, however problematic, was about issues and about \"real change\" vs. the symbolic... that's why what Tavis said matters.<br><br>I don't give a f-ck if everybody in the world but me sees that point.  The fact is:  folks criticizing Tavis for being petty are being petty in their reflexive criticisms of Tavis.<br><br>All Black people don't think a like (we all know that) and we've always had varying and often competing visions, even different goals.  If all folks care about is having a Black president then, in one sense, it's an insult to the lives, memory and legacy of our ancestors.  But maybe that's me...  because my Freedom Dreams are bigger.<br><br>I appreciate where we are and how big this is but this isn't the Promise Land many envisioned.  Maybe some, maybe even most did.  Maybe this is all some could ever conceive of.<br><br>To each his/her own...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_13:48:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Nquest", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3555313, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3551685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OMG! Y'all keep watching the senate race in Georgia! I knew they couldn't hide those early votes! They finally said that there will probably have to be a run-off between the incumbent Saxby Chambliss-R and Jim Martin-D. <br><br>Until an hour ago they were still tripping saying Chambliss was the projected winner even though they hadn't counted the early votes for just TWO counties - well those two counties are the largest two in the state and are overwhelmingly democratic!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_10:29:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550662": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Lord val, I just thought about how she just knew she was going to be in the whitehouse.  You know it does not take much for some addicts to fall off the wagon.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:23:13", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3550479, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550663": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You know I'm taping THE VIEW.  Elisabeth will probably call in sick.  LOL!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_09:23:15", "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": 3549168, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3551688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b><i>Oh and Tucker Carlson is crying his azz off... Bringing up Hillary Clinton ( \"she was treated so bad and why are people acting like all of us that didn't vote for Obama are racist or against racial progress\" paraphrase).</i></b><br><br>That was nothing but Tucker Carlson's GUILTY CONSCIENCE rearing its ugly head. Eugene Robinson was too disgusted with his ass, and rightly so. Regardless of who you voted for, you have to acknowledge the historical significance of this election. <br><br>Not voting for Obama doesn't necessarily mean that you're against black achievement, but acting like Tucker Carlson did this morning, saying that we should not be emotional,  certainly does.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_10:29:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3551324, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547084": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hee hee...<br><br>who called it?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:15:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3547008, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552718": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HaHaHa...may the real S please stand up!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:24:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3552219, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550163": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "RAOTFLMAO! Greenlady - you are amazing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:44:54", "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": 3548903, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552213": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "make me cry, why did you?<br><br>love it", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_10:57:18", "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": 3548903, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552219": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Someone took over my screen name.<br><br>I am not responsible for the post above.<br><br>And while I am not grinning and smiling, I am proud to witness this historic moment.<br><br>I would like to take this chance to say that while Obama did not get my vote yesterday, he will get my support. I hope that he will, with time,  allay my concerns,  that he will NOT be pushed to the left and that he will govern as a moderate. <br><br>Thank you all for the opportunity to express my views and values here at JJP.<br>I enjoyed the lively debate, but could have done without the name-calling and verbal abuse.<br><br>Now, with this victory, I hope that those on both sides of the political spectrum can put aside the hatred and vitriol that has consumed our politics for the past 8 years.<br><br>Let's disagree. Let's debate. Let's stand up and fight for what we believe in. But please, let us do so with respect and humility.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_10:57:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "db02925cd7f6e6f931701b7d12a93f84", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3550111, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3554781": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "deleted", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_13:00:08", "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": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3547108": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was an election official this year.I worked 16 hours at the voting poll.I saw so many people waiting for hours to vote.I saw young old every race creed and color out their.I tell you just peeping over the shoulders of some people and you would be surprised at how people voted.In my precinct there was 1210 for Mccain and 840 for Obama this in the mostly White military area.I knew Obama had Virginia after we read those results.The Obama family is too cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_02:18:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "kalagenesis", "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}, "3550183": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "was that bootlicker or buttlicker?  lol  <br><br>Lord forgive me HAH!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:47:07", "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": 3547868, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550185": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am curious to see how the media is going to spin this. I would love to hear anyone's input on this as well. My question is, will the media acknowledge that this win by Obama gives him a mandate?<br><br>In 1960, Kennedy carried four fewer states than Nixon, won less than 50% of the popular vote, and many claimed he did not even win the popular vote (he won by about 113,000).<br><br>In 1976, Carter carried four fewer states than Ford, so many Repukes sneered at him for that as well.<br><br>In 1992 Clinton failed to win 50% of the vote due to Perot's independent run. Funny, the Repugs didn't have a problem with it when Nixon only got 43.4% of the vote in 1968 thanks to George Wallace.<br><br>In 1996 Clinton once again failed to win 50% - he got 49.24% - as again Perot entered the race. Sorry pal, no mandate.<br><br>In 2000, Bush lost the popular vote to Gore (and in my opinion the election) despite OBVIOUSLY not having a mandate, he governed as though he did and went on to completely ignore the rest of us.<br><br>In 2004, Bush  won the popular vote, got more than 50%, and won 12 more states than Kerry. Though I believe he stole it again 120,000 votes going the other way in Ohio would of made Kerry the winner. Yet after that squeaker of an election the MSM and the right wing claimed Bush was given a mandate. I do not know where they got this, but it was the running story. <br><br>So I know want to see if after this convincing wing, after knocking off both Hillary and McCain, with a people driven campaign will they admit he has a mandate and allow him to govern that way? Fox News and those on the right are already talking about this country being a center right country, I could care less about that, but it is my assumption this is their call to try and stop anything Obama might try to get done from the handicapped harm they have done over the last 8 years. So how will this be spun?<br><br>So far it looks good for Obama.<br><br><b>A Clear Mandate For Obama</b><br><a href=\"http://www.forbes.com/topstories/2008/11/04/election-mccain-obama-biz-beltway-cx_bw_1104prexy.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.forbes.com/topstories/2008/11/04/ele...</a><br><br><b>Obama's victory is a mandate for change</b><br><a href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-election5-2008nov05%2C0%2C3709343.story\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinio...</a><br><br>Again I would love to hear anyone's opinion and input.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:47:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amen to the Usain Bolt type finish! I am Jamaican so any mention of Usain gets me so excited. Just like Obama, Usain made Jamaicans really proud.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_11:25:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3549384, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3553774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "and society.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:12:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3547495, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3549168": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Suicide watch for Joe Scarborough.  Suicide watch for fox news and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_07:02:40", "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": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3555313": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Tavis mission in life will cease to exist if we ever enter a \"post-racial\" society, so he's always going to fight against that.  I want to know, why did anyone think we care what he thinks anymore?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_13:25:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "jdickenslaw", "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": 3554535, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3553782": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Okay, one more link and then back to work! This made me laugh:<br><br>Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job<br><a href=\"http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/black_man_given_nations#\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bla...</a><br><br><i>WASHINGTON\u2014African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, \"It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break.\"</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_12:12:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "claudia_m", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3553586, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3550200": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm here, even through the exhaustion and depression of it all.<br><br>More than anything, I'm glad it's over.<br><br>Congratulations to President-elect Obama, his family, and his supporters.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_08:48:39", "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": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3547705, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3552252": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I remember a while back you wrote another piece about what the direction you thought was needed by the RNC. I found it interesting and was not sure if they were willing to go that way. As it appears now, there seems to be a civil war about to happen in the RNC. <br><br>There seems to be the intellectual side ( a section I would place you at) a section where I might disagree with in some parts, but a totally reasonable side that one can debate with. Then there is the Rush Limbaugh / Sarah Palin / Religious Right side. I am curious to see what side wins out, and will they take this election to move to a more reasonable and moderate position. <br><br>A friend wrote a piece somewhere similar to a earlier piece you wrote and I am curious to know what do you think will happen next. His piece was:<br><br><b>Can the GOP save itself?</b><br><a href=\"http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2008/11/2/93945/0373/Diary/Can-the-GOP-save-itself-\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2008/11/2/93...</a><br><br>I am interested in hearing what you think is the next step or direction they will take, or do you think a third party will emerge from this race soon, or in the near future.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_10:59:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "Suprk", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 3551829, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "3551829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "(with apologies to the moderators, as this is the only way I know to reach the rest of the \"dissenters\" here on JJP)<br><br><a href=\"http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/memo-to-the-rnc-and-fellow-conservatives/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Memo to the RNC and Fellow Conservatives</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-11-05_10:36:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "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": "6649163", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -7390967738418181282}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "wednesday_open_thread_61", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 137, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 6649163, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



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FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
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FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
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PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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				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_61' +
		'&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_61/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_61'
			+ '&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_61/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">137</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/wednesday_open_thread_61/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_61/">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:6649163" 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_61/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:6649163" 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:6649163" 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_61',
			// 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_61/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_61'
			+ '&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_61'
			+ '&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_61'
				+ '&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/6649163/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-3548903">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3548903" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3548903" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3548903">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3548903" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3548903" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  I am EXHAUSTED  -Up since 5:30am on Tuesday.  Annnnnnd still awake!  Will probably "crash"  - BIG TIME on WED.  :&gt;)     :&gt;)  <br><br>BUT, I have ta bring you some of the "SIGHTS and SOUNDS" from my "poll working" experience.<br><br>1.  One of my responsibilities was to give the "I VOTED" stickers to ALL.  Most of the time, I handed it to them, BUT, some people said, "You can put it on!"  So I accommodated  - UNTIL  -  this one old  "non-melanin" man asked me to put it on him and then said  -  "PRESS HARDER!"  I, professionally, took him aside and said  - "Ya need to slow your roll  "OLD DUDE!"  This is NOT a massage parlor!!  I told him that I could report him for some kind of "harassment!"  He got scurred and apologized!  WT freak?  :&gt;)<br><br>2.  A tender moment: A young "AA husband/wife" took a picture with their baby son after they voted.  I believe that this was the FIRST Time that they voted!  It was nice!   :&gt;)<br><br>3. I was working the table  "M    -     Z".  And I saw and heard this Hispanic male [kinda 40-ish] riled up!  He Then looked down the line of people at me and said - very loudly -  "Is the the Barack Obama line??"  "I ain\'t votin\' for no John McCain!"<br><br>The majority of the voters were white and they had the strangest looks on their faces.  I "professionally" smiled [BUT CRACKED UP INSIDE] and said that you could vote for your candidate at in any booth!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   LAWD HA"MERCY!!  IT WAS FUNNY!!!   :&gt;)<br><br>3.  This made me CRY.  I had ta "step outside."  One voter was a "somewhat mentally-challenged" 30-ish AA male.  This was his first time voting.  He sought me out and asked if I could help him with his voting since he didn\'t know how to do it.  YES I helped him!  And after he turned in his ballot with a BIG SMILE, his came back to me and said "THANK YOU!"  I held myself together long ENOUGH to be able to get out of that room to get my "CRY ON!"<br><br>THAT was a "special moment!"<br><br>4.  Then there was the matter of the "SUPERVISOR" with "IMPULSIVITY ISSUES!"  I knew the procedures used to search for the name of a voter.  So, did she have to ask me IFFFF I checked BOTH LISTS!!  I turned to her and in my best JJP form, I said - <b>TRUST!!</b>  She just looked at me like a deer in headlights!  Funny moment!  :&gt;)<br><br>5.  Had ta use my "bi-lingual skills" when speaking to some of my poll-worker buddies.  One of them asked me where the "resource book"  was.  I said,  "I don\'t know.  Maybe you could ask Carol.   She can <b>"HOOK YOU UP!"</b>  Wellllll,  after her quizzical look  - I went "bi-lingual" on her and said,  "Maybe she <b>CAN HELP YOU!"</b>  then she said.  Oh.  O.K.  I\'ll ask her.  :&gt;)    :&gt;)  LAWD HE\'P!!  **shakin\' my head** :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>6.  Then there was Mr. Romero  - early 40-ish.  While he was signing in he said  -"Welll, this is a VERY HISTORICAL ELECTION!" **little smirk**  I\'m hoping that things will come out for the VERY BEST!  **thumbs up**  I said I SURE HOPE SO 2!!  **smile**<br><br>Then he said, "We\'re communicating  - huh?"  I fell out laughing   -   professionally, of course.  :&gt;)<br><br>After he voted, he returned his ballot and said  - "Make sure my ballot counts a lot!"  **smile**  Then he walked off, **fingers in a "V"** and said,  "See you at the "VICTORY CELEBRATION tonight!!"  Mentally,  I went ta RAOTFL - hysterically!!!<br><br>"Home-boy" was on a roll and a mission  - to VOTE for President-Elect Barack H. Obama!!  This was a great moment!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)<br><br>YES, I enjoyed THIS TIME  - WORKING THE POLLS!!<br><br>PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Hussein Obama!!  YES HE DID!!  :&gt;)  God Bless!<br><br>O.K.  I\'m "CRASHING!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3548961">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3548961" class="dsq-comment-message">Can I say thank you for all you did, and though  you are tired, doesn\'t all that work feel good? Besides I know we are all able to sleep much easier now. Hats off to you GreenLadyHere</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3565695" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3565695" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3565695">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3565695" class="dsq-comment-message">Suprk:  U   R     very kind!!  Yes, I slept peacefully because of this "HISTORICAL MOMENT!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Hats off to y\'all/JJP!!   :&gt;)   God Bless ALL!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3549068" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3549068" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3549068" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3549068" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549068" class="dsq-comment-message">Ditto! You\'re awesome, GreenLady. Your encouragement, capital letters, and exclamation points have been amazing! (TRUST!) He did it, YOU did it, we did it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3565681" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3565681" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3565681">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3565681" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3565681" class="dsq-comment-message">caludia_m:  Thank you!  I soooo much ENJOY being at JJP  - with y\'all!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3549333" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3549333" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3549333">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3549333" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549333" class="dsq-comment-message">You sound like you had fun!! You are crazy btw haha</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3565668" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3565668" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3565668">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3565668" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3565668" class="dsq-comment-message">nickwah22:  I did!!  :&gt;)   Annnnnd, I practice!!  Thank you!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3549962">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3549962" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549962" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for sharing your experiences GreenLady.  Sounded like it was a great day.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3565658" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3565658">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3565658" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3565658" class="dsq-comment-message">MsKitty:  U   R   welcome!    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3550163" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550163">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3550163" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550163" class="dsq-comment-message">RAOTFLMAO! Greenlady - you are amazing.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3565650">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3565650" class="dsq-comment-message">Val:  Thank you!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3550288" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3550288" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550288">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3550288" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550288" class="dsq-comment-message">Green lady I am singing  "You know you\'re a special lady...."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3565642">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3565642" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3565642" class="dsq-comment-message">rorysmomma:      Annnnd, I am humbled!   Thank you!  :&lt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3552213">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552213" class="dsq-comment-message">make me cry, why did you?<br><br>love it</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3565595">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3565595" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3565595" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Thank you.    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3549384" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3549384">nickwah22</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3549384" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549384" class="dsq-comment-message">I was hoping for a Usain Bolt type finish and I surely got it.<br><br>I wonder how that G-10/G-15 (whatever it is) meeting is going to go now that President Elect BO is going to be running thangs.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3552746" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3552746" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552746" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen to the Usain Bolt type finish! I am Jamaican so any mention of Usain gets me so excited. Just like Obama, Usain made Jamaicans really proud.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3549114" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3549114" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549114" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not going to say "I can\'t believe it," because I CAN believe it. This is a wonderful, wonderful moment.<br><br>Funny thing, now I\'m thinking about all the stuff I put off because I was so caught up in this election. Have to send out those emails apologizing to my students, have to clean up my house, pay those overdue bills - LOL.<br><br>I don\'t think I\'m ever going to take my Obama 08 bumper sticker off my car. Well, not until 2012 (when I put up his re-elect one). But I\'m so glad I\'ve already put in my order for these stickers - "O: Our President" - everybody needs to get one. I\'m planning on giving them out as Christmas gifts!: <a href="http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/item/obama-shop-sticker-rectangle/295874410" rel="nofollow">http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/item/obama-...</a><br><br>As Curtis Mayfield said, "We\'re A Winner"!!!!!!<br><br>Oh - one more thing: according to the latest news, Obama is winning (has won?) NC by .02 percent of the vote. Small, but that\'s really a big deal for the South.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3551015">Lilytiger</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3551015" class="dsq-comment-message">Claudia, my my how we are alike. The house is destroyed and I swear I haven\'t written a check since Hillary lost. LOL<br><br><br>Well, not that bad but still.<br><br>Oh Seattle had people dancing in the streets last night.<br><br><a href="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics/archives/153491.asp" rel="nofollow">http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolit...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547694" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547694">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547694" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:       <b>ANSWER:</b>    BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!   :&gt;)<br><br><b>QUESTION:</b>   "WHYCOME" you are JUST getting home from COUNTING the BALLOTS at your polling place, WHEN the <b> 44th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</b> and his family have been home and have gone to bed??  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Whew!!  **shaking my head while RAOTFL**  Deep Breaths!!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I\'m SERIOUS.  At 8:00pm we closed the poll.  At, approximately 8:35 pm, some man came to the poll to vote.  I broke the sad news that we had closed the poll [as prescribed by law] at 8:00 pm.  As he was leaving the room, he turned around and said  - Oh! BTW  - John McCain is about to give his <b>CONSESSION SPEECH!!</b><br><br>We have a <b>NEW PRESIDENT!</b>  And because I was trying to pull a President Obama "cool persona", I said O.K.  Then I went to the Ladies Room  and CRIED and THANKED THE LORD!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)<br><br>THIS WAS A HAPPY and BLESSED  DAY!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3546854" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3546854" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3546854">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3546854" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3546854" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m gonna be so sleepy at work tomorrow...but I can\'t sleep!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3546882" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3546882" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3546882">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3546882" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3546882" class="dsq-comment-message">and I couldn\'t sleep last night either as I was so excited to vote today!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3546899" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3546899">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3546899" class="dsq-comment-message">Storming the Bastille?<br><br>"Evict Bush NOW"<br>Outside the White House People Demand Eviction NOW!<br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7BY0NSfst9g" rel="nofollow">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7BY0NSfst9g</a><br><br>Crazy kids...lol.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3546914" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3546914">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3546914" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3546914" class="dsq-comment-message">LMAO!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3552495" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3552495">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552495" class="dsq-comment-message">yeah, that really moved me.  Those young kids wanted Bush to move out immediately.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3546965" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3546965" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3546965" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/11637/6643/803/646003" rel="nofollow">Photos of President-Elect Barack Obama and Family</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547013">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547013" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547013" class="dsq-comment-message">thank you iceberg</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547448" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547448">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547448" class="dsq-comment-message">iceberg:  WOW!!!   :&gt;)  THANK YOU  SOOOOO MUCH!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3546971" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3546971" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3546971">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3546971" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3546971" class="dsq-comment-message">Michelle was GLOWING. She was just radiant. I just LOVE that black family!!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547002" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547002">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547002" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547002" class="dsq-comment-message">They just called Indiana finally! What a azz kicking!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547781" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547781">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547781" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547781" class="dsq-comment-message">Indeed</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547008" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547008" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547008">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547008" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547008" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama won Indiana</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547051" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547051" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547051">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547051" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547051" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh my God. I am about to start singing "we have come this far by faith"!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547775" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547775" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547775">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547775" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547775" class="dsq-comment-message">lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547793" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547793" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547793">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547793" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547793" class="dsq-comment-message">JJai:  Get the "key" from my post on Tuesday!!  JJP CHOIR   -  unite!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3552618" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3552618" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3552618">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3552618" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552618" class="dsq-comment-message">ok, I am ready!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547084" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547084" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547084">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547084" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547084" class="dsq-comment-message">hee hee...<br><br>who called it?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547036" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547036" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547036">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547036" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547036" class="dsq-comment-message">OBAMA WINS!!!!!!!<br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AT-31htGFTE" rel="nofollow">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=AT-31htGFTE</a><br>MSNBC clips of various gatherings as race called for Obama...wild.<br><br>--------------------------<br>This is the Zeitgeist Election! Christopher Hitchens on BBC<br><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=C3vBr7ytupg" rel="nofollow">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=C3vBr7ytupg</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547108" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547108" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547108">kalagenesis</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547108" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547108" class="dsq-comment-message">I was an election official this year.I worked 16 hours at the voting poll.I saw so many people waiting for hours to vote.I saw young old every race creed and color out their.I tell you just peeping over the shoulders of some people and you would be surprised at how people voted.In my precinct there was 1210 for Mccain and 840 for Obama this in the mostly White military area.I knew Obama had Virginia after we read those results.The Obama family is too cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547829" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547829" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547829">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547829" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547829" class="dsq-comment-message">kalagenesis:  Co-signing!  When I started counting the ballots and saw all those M/P votes!  I got mad!!  Out of ALL that they had seen and heard, some people could STILL vote for that "ILLITERATE PAIR!"  -uh!   uh!   Uh!  THEY are SHAMEFUL!!<br><br>Unfortunately, they won\'t get what they deserve   - a M/P administration!!   HAH!!   :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547193" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547193" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547193">barry4obama</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547193" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547193" class="dsq-comment-message">I CRIED LIKE A BABY!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547272" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547272" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547272">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547272" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547272" class="dsq-comment-message">Barry, I had family over we had a long day and I didn\'t cry. But, when I got still alone I cried and it was ugly, lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547249" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547249" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547249">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547249" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547249" class="dsq-comment-message">It looks like O won NC too....they\'re showing 100% reporting with about a 11,000 vote lead.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547257" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547257" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547257">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547257" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547257" class="dsq-comment-message">I wanted NC or GA. I am so excited!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3548296" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3548296" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3548296">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3548296" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3548296" class="dsq-comment-message">Well...there maybe some issue with Georgia\'s numbers:<br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/12649/6674/253/653696" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/12649/6...</a><br><br>I read another diary during early voting where it seemed the AA male vote was significantly lower than the AA female vote by about 200,000(if memory serves).<br><br>They think some of the early votes have not been counted yet...   Maybe Georgia\'s a win after all.   :-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3549367" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3549367" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3549367">nickwah22</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3549367" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549367" class="dsq-comment-message">buh bye southern strategy! FL, NC, possibly GA?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3552571" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3552571" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3552571">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3552571" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552571" class="dsq-comment-message">awesome, I really wanted GA but would take NC!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547282" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547282" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547282">JJai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547282" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547282" class="dsq-comment-message">Good Night, JJP!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547495" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547495" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3547495" href="http://clipsandchips.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">J. Clarence</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547495" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547495" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Obama said it best tonight, when he talked about this moment is merely the opportunity to change things; nevertheless, what we have all done today is truly amazing, and hopefully it will help break down some of the remaining bridges that exist in our hearts and minds.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3553774" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3553774" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3553774" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3553774" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3553774" class="dsq-comment-message">and society.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3547705">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547705" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547705" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547705">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547705" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547705" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  Where you at??  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547880" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547880" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547880">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547880" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547880" class="dsq-comment-message">Hiding. Covering his ears! I\'m kidding!!! lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3550200" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3550200" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3550200" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3550200" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550200" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m here, even through the exhaustion and depression of it all.<br><br>More than anything, I\'m glad it\'s over.<br><br>Congratulations to President-elect Obama, his family, and his supporters.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3565743" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3565743" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3565743">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3565743" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3565743" class="dsq-comment-message">D:  Chin up!!!  Life is going on!!   Annnnnnnnnd HOW!!!   :&gt;)<br><br>THANK YOU!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3547733">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547733" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547733" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547733">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547733" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547733" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  Rev. Joe Watkins STILL cain\'t give it up for Mr. President!!<br><br>Wonder IFFF it HURTS to be such a "HATA" and a Rev.?  Hmmf!<br><br>President- Elect  "BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!  YES HE CAN!!  :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547868" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547868" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547868">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547868" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547868" class="dsq-comment-message">And a Rev at that!!!!  He\'s a jealous hater and a bootlicker!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3548599" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3548599" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3548599">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3548599" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3548599" class="dsq-comment-message">Justice58:  YEAH!   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3550183" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3550183" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550183">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3550183" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550183" class="dsq-comment-message">was that bootlicker or buttlicker?  lol  <br><br>Lord forgive me HAH!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547752" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547752" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547752">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547752" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547752" class="dsq-comment-message">hey guys, <br><br>What a night to have computer problems. Heck, I missed some of the celebrations with you guys. I have no voice. It\'s gone and my throat is raw from screaming and crying. <br>When it was announced that Barack Obama is the next president, I started screaming and fell to the floor.....it was all over then! God, it is real! It is real!<br><br> President Barack Obama! Woo Hoo!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3548303" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3548303" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3548303">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3548303" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3548303" class="dsq-comment-message">:-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3549772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3549772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3549772" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3549772" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549772" class="dsq-comment-message">The same exact thing happened 2 me!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3547761" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3547761" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3547761">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3547761" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3547761" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah: Ya see, the OBAMAs didn\'t JUST pick out their clothing today! <br><br>I\'m believin\' that HE KNEW!! HE has always been ANOINTED!  THANK YOU GOD!!  :&gt;)<br><br>PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Hussein Obama!  YES HE CAN!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3548199" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3548199" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3548199">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3548199" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3548199" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  I hope that this is NOT a duplicate.  Sorry.<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/reactions-around-the-worl_n_141187.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/reacti...</a><br><b>Reactions Around The World!!</b><br><br><i>People around the world were celebrating the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.<br><br>See election reactions around the U.S.<br><br>Kenya, where Obama\'s relatives were singing in the streets "We are going to the White House!", has declared Wednesday a national holiday after Barack Obama.<br><br>See how people around the world kept themselves busy on election day.<br><br>Read more about Election Results.<br><br>See photos of Barack Obama on election day, John McCain on election day, Sarah Palin on election day, and Joe Biden on election day.</I>  You can IGNORE the McAncient/<b>UN-VETTED ONE</b> pics/<br><br>President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama!!  YES HE CAN!    :&gt;)</i></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3548461" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3548461">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3548461" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  I\'m going to bring a few articles from "Alaska".  THEY are ECSTATIC!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>1.<br><br><a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/election-night-open-thread-yes-we-did/" rel="nofollow">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/electi...</a><br><b>Election Night Open Thread  -  YES WE DID!!</b><br><br><i>What an incredible day.  It’s still sinking in that we have a President Elect Obama.  I just returned from Election Central in downtown Anchorage.  Many candidates were there, and everyone was feeling very festive.  The Barack Obama campaign people came in with huge signs and the place went wild with chants of Yes We Can!  It was electric.<br><br>I will tell you all about the evening tomorrow, Mudflatters…  I am so overwhelmed by this historic night that words aren’t coming.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>I will continue to do what I have been doing here, although work, family, and my disaster of a house will need to take some of my time.  I was blogging before Sarah Palin’s unlikely rise to the national stage, and hopefully will be doing this after her time is up.  I’m not worried that Alaska will run out of muck any time soon.<br><br>(Raises glass)  To you Mudflatters, and to a brave new chapter in American history.  Yes we can.<br>  <br><br>THERE IS MORE.<br><br>2.  <a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/president-elect-barack-obama/" rel="nofollow">http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/presid...</a><br><b>President Elect Barack Obama</b><br><br>Hi everyone,<br><br>Snoskred here. AKMuckraker is stuck on a new laptop unable to log in, but dropped by the chat to let me know you needed a new open thread. Here tis! Enjoy.<br><br>Oh, and as a non-American, may I be one of the first to congratulate you on the election of Barack Obama. Everyone I know here in Australia is so thrilled for you. *I* am thrilled for you.<br><br>Now, fingers crossed that Alaska turns blue. Sephyroth tells me it cannot happen, but I have faith, and I believe.. yes we can! ;)<br><br>3.  <a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/i-voted/" rel="nofollow">I VOTED!</a><br><br> filled in Mark Begich, then Ethan Berkowitz, then my local race.  I saved Obama-Biden for last.  I took a deep breath and really thought about what it took to get to this day, not only all the incredible work that has gone into this particular election, but also to have a viable African-American candidate on the ballot as nominee for the President of the United States.<br><br>I hope to see a woman in that spot too, some day.  But I want to vote for a woman who has earned her place on the ticket through her own intelligence, principles, work ethic, determination and grit, not someone who got picked as a strategic calculation, and a poor one at that.  I looked at Palin’s name on the ballot.  After my deep breath, I filled in the Obama-Biden oval carefully…being sure not to leave one little white space.  Then I double checked to make sure I filled in the right oval, and didn’t make a horrible mistake because of my reverie.<br><br>4.  <a href="http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/let-the-games-begin-election-day-in-alaska/" rel="nofollow">LET THE GAMES BEGIN:  ELECTION DAY IN ALASKA!</a><br><br>The day started early.  I left the house at 6:00am, took the long drive up to Wasilla, just because I had to wave a sign at Sarh Palin as she drove by.  We never caught up with the sign waving crowd, but we did see the Governor’s entourage flanked by Alaska State Trooper cars in front and back, with 12 or 15 SUVs and other vehicles in between.  The sun wasn’t up yet, and it was freezing cold.  <b>I doubt she saw me with my Alaskans for Obama sign on the side of the road, but I can say I was there.</b>   I followed the motorcade on the way back into town, but never caught up.  They were in a hurry.<br><br>SKIP<br><br>Back in Anchorage, there were lots of people out smiling and waving signs at major intersections - Obama, Begich, and Berkowitz supporters were out en masse.  There were a few Don Young people, even fewer McCain Palin people, and nobody for Ted Stevens on this first pass through town today.<br><br>Next stop - voting!  I’ve got my video camera, and I’m ready to video my vote.</i><br><br>MUDFLATTERS have a re-newed  strength to "rally against the <b>UN-VETTED ONE</b>  When <b>SHE RETURNS TO ALASKA!!</b>  HAH!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSt0NEESrUA" rel="nofollow">NORTH TO ALASKA!!</a></i><br><br>Whoooo!    Hoooo!    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3548732">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3548732" class="dsq-comment-message">SHE\'LL BE BAAACK<br><br>skip<br><br>But Republican leaders say the election was just the beginning for Sarah Palin.<br>Despite coming under fire for her inexperience, insiders say she is already being groomed to run for the presidency in 2012.<br>She even let slip her own ambitions last week, saying in a TV interview that she’s ‘not doing all this for naught\'.<br>And should her presidential ambitions full flat, Hollywood has also come calling.<br>Several top producers are vying to see if she can turn her popularity among the country’s conservatives into TV ratings.<br>Now Joe Biden will be filling the vacant VP job in Washington, network executives are sharpening their pitches to try and persuade her to capitalise on her new found celebrity.<br>Her self-mocking appearance on Saturday Night Live, with lookalike star Tina Fey and actor Alec Baldwin, only heightened Palin fever in Hollywood.<br>‘Any television person who sees the numbers when she appears on anything would say Sarah Palin would be great,’ said veteran morning-show producer Steve Friedman.<br>‘The passion she has on each side, love and hate, makes television people say, "Wow, imagine the viewership".‘<br>According to the Hollywood Reporter, most industry insiders believe an Oprah Winfrey-style daytime talk show will be the probable route for the 44-year-old.<br>They think her folksy, straight-shooting personality would be an immediate hit with the predominantly female audience.<br>\'I see her less a variety show host like Ellen De Generes and more of a single-topic host like Tyra Banks,’ said one top TV producer.<br>Cable news is another possibility and perhaps easier to fit in with her day job. Mike Huckerbee, who lost out to John McCain in the Republican primaries, has just begun his own weekly show on Fox News.<br>One producer has even floated the idea - only half-jokingly - of taking advantage of the curiosity surrounding the entire Palin clan and their Alaska setting and packaging a reality show called ‘The Palins’ as a mixture of The Osbournes and Northern Exposure.<br><br><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1083142/Boos-mar-John-McCains-gracious-concession-hints-just-beginning-Sarah-Palin.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1083142...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550755">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550755" class="dsq-comment-message">The day John McCain picked her to be his VP is the day he lost the election.<br><br>Sarah Palin does not know her role.<br><br>People complained about Joe Biden and his gaffes and Biden in general but Biden knew his role and stayed in his place.<br><br>Biden knew he was #2, not #1.<br><br>Sarah Palin thought she was #1, and John McCain\'s efforts to smack her back down to #2 and cleaning up after her wasted a lot of time.<br><br>I don\'t see a future in national politics for her.  She cannot be trusted.  If she wants to be #1, she needs to stay her ass right in Alaska.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552375" class="dsq-comment-message">Honestly, I LOVE the idea of a Palin family reality show.  That would be some entertaining, dysfunctional sh1t.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3554992">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3554992" class="dsq-comment-message">Even better, just put the Palins on a "very special" Jerry Springer Show.  Then again, maybe Maury would be a better choice since there\'s some baby mystery issues.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3552610">djchefron</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552610" class="dsq-comment-message">Gov. Palin will not make it out of the republican primaries.Where Obama would not bring up her lack of knowledge the republican candidates will not be so kind.The sideshow of the jockeying for power that will go on in the republican party will be a hilarious sideshow while we get down to the serious business of fixing our nation.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3548981">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3548981" class="dsq-comment-message">The world is celebrating.<br><br><b>Wednesday Newspaper Front Pages(Updatedx5) US and Worldwide Edition- PRESIDENT OBAMA</b><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/04621/2283/311/653622" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/04621/2...</a><br><br><b>Pictures: President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice-President Elect Joe Biden Hotlist</b><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/11637/6643/803/646003" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/5/11637/6...</a><br><br><b>Election Reactions Around The Country (PHOTOS)</b><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/election-reactions-around_n_141188.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/electi...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3549168">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549168" class="dsq-comment-message">Suicide watch for Joe Scarborough.  Suicide watch for fox news and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3549404">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549404" class="dsq-comment-message">Will I be wrong if I yell "Go ahead! Jump! It won\'t hurt! I\'ll catch you!!"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549916" class="dsq-comment-message">If that\'s wrong, I don\'t want to be right LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3549975">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550130" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda - I will be right there with you.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550136" class="dsq-comment-message">LMBAO!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550663">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550663" class="dsq-comment-message">You know I\'m taping THE VIEW.  Elisabeth will probably call in sick.  LOL!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3554449">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3554449" class="dsq-comment-message">Today she was frantically trying to rejoin the human race - gushing over the historical relevance of the election.    She seems to think that now this is over,  we should all forget that in the darkest hours, she tried to kill us.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3549335">DWS2</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549335" class="dsq-comment-message">As I watched the results everything seemed to be moving in slow motion.  It was not until President Elect Obama spoke that the reality hit me.  <br><br>Even though I participated here, contributed to the campaign and encouraged others to do the same last night still blew me away.  I am thrilled that we were all successful but there was a small part of me that was not sure we would be and that makes me a little sad.<br><br>I pray for Pres. Obama and his family and his administration for the road ahead will be a challenging one but I have every confidence that he will rise to the occasion.<br><br>Peace.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3549976">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549976" class="dsq-comment-message">My God, My God! I still can\'t believe it. It\'s so surreal. I get chills of joy and pride every time I see or hear the words: President Barack Hussein Obama. <br><br>YES. WE. DID.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550080">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550080" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m exhausted, have the hangover from hell, the coffee hasn\'t kicked in yet, but it\'s a great day.  I think I\'m still in disbelief that America came through and did the right thing for once.  I just keep thinking back to the moment when the election was called.  We were whooping, hollering, high fiving each other.  And then I thought about my Mom, and the tears came like Niagara Falls.  You see, Mom was a political junkie (I talked yesterday about how she went into labor with me while watching the \'64 returns) and she would have loved this election, and she would have been over the moon right now.  Even more ironic, Inauguration Day will be on what would have been Mom\'s 70th birthday.  But I know she\'s smiling wherever she is.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550109">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550109" class="dsq-comment-message">As President-elect Obama was often required to say, his faith in the American people has been vindicated. But until now, what he couldn\'t say--and what many of us feel today--is that <b>Black people\'s</b> 400-year sacrificial expenditure of body, mind, and spirit has been redeemed.  <br><br>As proud as I am of President-elect Obama, I\'m equally proud of Black Americans\' intellect, organization, sacrifice, and discipline in putting Obama where he is.  This is a moment in history that we deserve.  We can and certainly should share this wonderful gift with our fellow American family.  <br><br>Yet make no mistake, we have <i>earned</i> this moment of joy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550226">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550226" class="dsq-comment-message">I have to edit your statement just a little bit Ronnie so I can officially co-sign.<br><br>eehh emmmm (clearing throat) <br><br>As proud as I am of President-elect Obama, I\'m equally proud of Black, White, Hispanic and all other Non-White Americans\' intellect, organization, sacrifice, and discipline in putting Obama where he is.   <br><br>I am just recognizing that he couldn\'t do this with just the support of the blacks.  It took the collective effort of all races.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3551251">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3551251" class="dsq-comment-message">We certainly crossed the finish line together.  And we shall go forward together for the rest of our American days.<br><br>But I seek to acknowledge the special, unique and incomparable preparation of this moment, by generations of Black Americans--from today\'s hip hop generation to first-generation Africans.  <br><br>Make no mistake; this moment is all of ours to share.   And I love that I can share it with my fellow Rainbow brethren.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550185">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550185" class="dsq-comment-message">I am curious to see how the media is going to spin this. I would love to hear anyone\'s input on this as well. My question is, will the media acknowledge that this win by Obama gives him a mandate?<br><br>In 1960, Kennedy carried four fewer states than Nixon, won less than 50% of the popular vote, and many claimed he did not even win the popular vote (he won by about 113,000).<br><br>In 1976, Carter carried four fewer states than Ford, so many Repukes sneered at him for that as well.<br><br>In 1992 Clinton failed to win 50% of the vote due to Perot\'s independent run. Funny, the Repugs didn\'t have a problem with it when Nixon only got 43.4% of the vote in 1968 thanks to George Wallace.<br><br>In 1996 Clinton once again failed to win 50% - he got 49.24% - as again Perot entered the race. Sorry pal, no mandate.<br><br>In 2000, Bush lost the popular vote to Gore (and in my opinion the election) despite OBVIOUSLY not having a mandate, he governed as though he did and went on to completely ignore the rest of us.<br><br>In 2004, Bush  won the popular vote, got more than 50%, and won 12 more states than Kerry. Though I believe he stole it again 120,000 votes going the other way in Ohio would of made Kerry the winner. Yet after that squeaker of an election the MSM and the right wing claimed Bush was given a mandate. I do not know where they got this, but it was the running story. <br><br>So I know want to see if after this convincing wing, after knocking off both Hillary and McCain, with a people driven campaign will they admit he has a mandate and allow him to govern that way? Fox News and those on the right are already talking about this country being a center right country, I could care less about that, but it is my assumption this is their call to try and stop anything Obama might try to get done from the handicapped harm they have done over the last 8 years. So how will this be spun?<br><br>So far it looks good for Obama.<br><br><b>A Clear Mandate For Obama</b><br><a href="http://www.forbes.com/topstories/2008/11/04/election-mccain-obama-biz-beltway-cx_bw_1104prexy.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forbes.com/topstories/2008/11/04/ele...</a><br><br><b>Obama\'s victory is a mandate for change</b><br><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-election5-2008nov05%2C0%2C3709343.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinio...</a><br><br>Again I would love to hear anyone\'s opinion and input.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3552157">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552157" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s like it was, I hate to say it, \'divined\' this way. <br><br>No disputes. No close. It was like the reward for the hell he\'s been through for almost 2 years was a profound statement - HE IS THE PRESIDENT. <br><br>Theyv\'e already started on the next memo, though:<br><br>Well, NOW he has to govern. And what a mess it is.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3553609">jelana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3553609" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah,<br>Don\'t be afraid to say it.  That is exactly what it was.  Everything always fell into place for him.  Granted, there was work involved, but this was meant for him.  There is no other explanation.  When it is yours, NO ONE can stop it or take it away from you!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3550245" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550245">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550245" class="dsq-comment-message">Kerry: \'Tonight new dreams are born\'<br><br>"Tonight we elected a President who has inspired a majority of Americans with his vision and policies, a man who is principally a leader for these times who happens to also be African American; and because of America’s stunning ability to move on and transform, to write a new chapter of our history, Barack Obama will be President during the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights movement and the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.<br><br><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04/john-kerry-tonight-new-dreams-are-born/" rel="nofollow">http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550363">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550363" class="dsq-comment-message">Please say a prayer for Cindy Mccain guys.... She seriously may make a swan dive, if Mccain doesn\'t beat her into submission first.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550479">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550479" class="dsq-comment-message">RAOTFLMAO!<br><br><br>Rorysmomma - what\'s happening?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550662">rorysmomma</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550662" class="dsq-comment-message">Lord val, I just thought about how she just knew she was going to be in the whitehouse.  You know it does not take much for some addicts to fall off the wagon.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550816">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550816" class="dsq-comment-message">RAOTFL! Hysterical!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3550487" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550487">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550487" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama Celebrates Election With Victory Album<br><br>Get your album today.<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-celebrates-election_n_141247.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-...</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550499">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550499" class="dsq-comment-message">I love the one from Legend - Pride, in the name of love</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550598">lamh31</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550598" class="dsq-comment-message">I hear from DKos, that Joe Scar is showing is ass again today, but Brian Williams is kinda shutting it down.  <br><br>Jealous much Joe!!!<br><br><br>Suck on it!!!!!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3551324" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3551324" class="dsq-comment-message">I just watched a segment of Morning Joe where he really showed it.  Actually, he was okay and Mika was the one struggling...  Both were trying to push this "post-racial" stuff.  (And I caught John McWhorter on CNN doing the same in his usual smug manner.)<br><br>Oh but at the mention of Rohm Emmanuel being Obama\'s Chief of Staff...  Joe couldn\'t let the hate go.  Mark Halperin and Dark Sith (?) tried to talk him down and stress Emmanuel\'s centrist bonafides but Joe was stuck on hate and his ideological issue with him claiming Emmanuel is the Democratic version of Tom Delay and would be seen that way as Chief of Staff by Republicans.<br><br>But what really got them all was the realization that there are no Republican congresspersons in New England with the way the elections turned out from Maine to Connecticut, etc.<br><br>...............<br><br>Oh and Tucker Carlson is crying his azz off...   Bringing up Hillary Clinton ( "she was treated so bad and why are people acting like all of us that didn\'t vote for Obama are racist or against racial progress" paraphrase).<br><br>Unbelieveable!!!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3551688">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3551688" class="dsq-comment-message"><b><i>Oh and Tucker Carlson is crying his azz off... Bringing up Hillary Clinton ( "she was treated so bad and why are people acting like all of us that didn\'t vote for Obama are racist or against racial progress" paraphrase).</i></b><br><br>That was nothing but Tucker Carlson\'s GUILTY CONSCIENCE rearing its ugly head. Eugene Robinson was too disgusted with his ass, and rightly so. Regardless of who you voted for, you have to acknowledge the historical significance of this election. <br><br>Not voting for Obama doesn\'t necessarily mean that you\'re against black achievement, but acting like Tucker Carlson did this morning, saying that we should not be emotional,  certainly does.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3552462" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3552462" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552462" class="dsq-comment-message">Yea I saw all of that. I was very annoyed by Mika constantly trying to promote that "post-racial" garbege. People keeping saying that and it is ruining by celebration.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3560453" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3560453" href="http://theunemploymentcafe.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">iamnotstarjones</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3560453" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3560453" class="dsq-comment-message">"I have often said, when she comes on television, I involuntarily cross my legs."<br><br>-Tucker Carlson on Hillary Clinton.<br><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200707180009" rel="nofollow">http://mediamatters.org/items/200707180009</a><br><br>Methinks the prepster weasel protests too much.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3554129">JJai</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3554129" class="dsq-comment-message">Jill Scott said it best when she said Hyperlink to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw3Z8Oa7E3Y" rel="nofollow">Hate on Me</a> <br><br><br><i>Hate on me, hater<br>Now or later<br>‘Coz I’m gonna do me<br>You’ll be mad, baby<br>Go ‘head and hate<br>Go ‘head and hate on me, hate on<br>‘Coz I’m not afraid of it</i><br><b>What I got I paid for</b><br><i>You can hate on me</i><br><br><br><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw3Z8Oa7E3Y" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw3Z8Oa7E3Y</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550943">Mona</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550943" class="dsq-comment-message">Yesterday was a good day. <br>Today is an even better day. <br>And I\'m excited for tomorrow.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3551085">OSIRIS1906</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3551085" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, one thing. I\'ve been following this blog for awhile. As an African American Law Enforcement officer who fully endorses Obama. I was really pissed when that Florida Deputy said that Barack Hussien Obama would be in for a rude awakening on the 5th. Looks like the GOP\'s world just got rocked !!!!!!!!!! Sorry for the gloat you guys !!!! I had to.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3551685">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3551685" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG! Y\'all keep watching the senate race in Georgia! I knew they couldn\'t hide those early votes! They finally said that there will probably have to be a run-off between the incumbent Saxby Chambliss-R and Jim Martin-D. <br><br>Until an hour ago they were still tripping saying Chambliss was the projected winner even though they hadn\'t counted the early votes for just TWO counties - well those two counties are the largest two in the state and are overwhelmingly democratic!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3551829" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3551829" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3551829" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3551829" class="dsq-comment-message">(with apologies to the moderators, as this is the only way I know to reach the rest of the "dissenters" here on JJP)<br><br><a href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/memo-to-the-rnc-and-fellow-conservatives/" rel="nofollow">Memo to the RNC and Fellow Conservatives</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3552252" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3552252">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552252" class="dsq-comment-message">I remember a while back you wrote another piece about what the direction you thought was needed by the RNC. I found it interesting and was not sure if they were willing to go that way. As it appears now, there seems to be a civil war about to happen in the RNC. <br><br>There seems to be the intellectual side ( a section I would place you at) a section where I might disagree with in some parts, but a totally reasonable side that one can debate with. Then there is the Rush Limbaugh / Sarah Palin / Religious Right side. I am curious to see what side wins out, and will they take this election to move to a more reasonable and moderate position. <br><br>A friend wrote a piece somewhere similar to a earlier piece you wrote and I am curious to know what do you think will happen next. His piece was:<br><br><b>Can the GOP save itself?</b><br><a href="http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2008/11/2/93945/0373/Diary/Can-the-GOP-save-itself-" rel="nofollow">http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2008/11/2/93...</a><br><br>I am interested in hearing what you think is the next step or direction they will take, or do you think a third party will emerge from this race soon, or in the near future.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3553028" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3553028" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3553028" class="dsq-comment-message">For that, you have to look at the 2012 election, as the party not in power always makes gains in the midterm elections.<br><br>The GOP has gotta listen to people. That\'s where it all starts. We\'ve been bashing people\'s heads in with a message of "compassionate conservatism" that has shown to be neither. The (stereo)typical conservative\'s problems aren\'t always the problems of all Americans. Once we\'ve heard from the people, <i>then</i> we can present our beliefs as solutions. <b>But</b>, we have to practice them first, or else we\'re hypocrites.<br><br>I think that 2012 may be the extreme right\'s last stand. A McCain/Romney ticket might not have lost as badly as McCain/Palin, but she was needed to secure the far right. I suggested a while back that Palin and Dobson should run together, so we can just get them out of the way.<br><br>We have no grassroots, no strategy, and a presentation problem. If we can fix those issues, the GOP will survive. If not, I could see the Libertarians and more moderate conservatives breaking. Problem is, when Republicans/conservatives break, they\'re thrown bones to get them back in line (in the form of maintaining our present and future viability). <br><br>We have to learn to throw the bones back, and let the people carry us over.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3557681">Suprk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3557681" class="dsq-comment-message">I last thought because and this is all Monday morning quarterbacking. I seriously believe this election would of been tighter if McCain would of ran more of the McCain in 2000 than he did here. In fact his final speech was more like he was then, than how he had campaign up to that point. The only flaw I see with that, is I do not think the McCain of 2000 would have any chance in the Republican primary.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3552270">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552270" class="dsq-comment-message">thank you, D. <br><br>we are all Americans.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3553150" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3553150" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3553150" class="dsq-comment-message">Contrary to pouplar (conservative) opinion, that we are.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3552260">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552260" class="dsq-comment-message">I know you\'d never think you\'d get this request from me: <br><br>I need a link to Dubya\'s Press Conference  from today congratulating Obama. <br><br>Thank you in advance.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3552560">parker404</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552560" class="dsq-comment-message">President Bush\'s statement was, for once, excellent.  Every now and then we\'re reminded that he actually comes from a classy, somewhat respectable, background.  Unlike that PWT Caribou, who showed up to vote yesterday looking like she was on her way to Walmart.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3552629" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3552629" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552629" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve got the transcript, if that will work.<br><br>Though, I think you want video. ;)<br><br><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/11/20081105.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/11...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3552630" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3552630" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552630" class="dsq-comment-message">I was in Times Square last night. I brought my younger cousins and my sister and her boyfriend as well as a couple of my girlfriends.  It was like New years eve! So exciting. Then I went to a private party. All of Harlem was in the streetsI have the worse hangover right now so I am trying to catch up with everyone on JJP!<br><br>Thanks JJP for your amazing election coverage this year. There is such a great community here=)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3552810" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3552810" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552810" class="dsq-comment-message">I am heading over to the many Nobama websites. Hopefully I can get out safely. Last time I went on those sites, I got my email hacked, I got death threats as well as some other stuff. Forget youtube.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3553172">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3553172" class="dsq-comment-message">Dammit! My cousin in DC has already promised her spare bedrooms to her sister, MY sister, and three of our other cousins. Gotta work on Plan B.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3553586" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3553586" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3553586" class="dsq-comment-message">Great behind the scenes article at HuffPo:<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-we-cant-solve-globa_n_141358.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-...</a><br><br>Read to the end to get Obama\'s (uncensored) view of the debates!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3553782" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3553782" href="http://www.thebottomofheaven.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">claudia_m</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3553782" class="dsq-comment-message">Okay, one more link and then back to work! This made me laugh:<br><br>Black Man Given Nation\'s Worst Job<br><a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/black_man_given_nations#" rel="nofollow">http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bla...</a><br><br><i>WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation\'s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can\'t catch a break."</i></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3554586" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3554586" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3554586" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!! That was funny! Hilarious!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3553660" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3553660">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3553660" class="dsq-comment-message">Did anyone catch Bishop T.D. Jakes on MSNBC last night?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3553993" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3553993">Jay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3553993" class="dsq-comment-message">I truly enjoy TD Jakes preaching, but I was completely distracted by his lisp (never knew he had one). During the times he was speaking I was reading JJP. lol<br><br>Did he say something that struck a cord with you?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3554070" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3554070" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3554070">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3554070" class="dsq-comment-message">I was captivated by his eloquence.  I could have listened to him all night.<br><br>I could live with the lisp, I suppose.<br><br>I see him as America\'s new Billy Graham.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3553837" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3553837" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3553837" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3553837" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3553837" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey JJP, I know you guys are excited but there are too many threads. I don\'t know where to comment?<br><br>Anyways, I think yesterday broke a record. I havent seen so many grown black men crying in my entire life!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3554077" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3554077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3554077">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3554077" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks Rhonda. I\'m going to put up another Wednesday Open Thread. <br><br>I\'ll contact the bloggers about this. I think we\'re just happy as can be, and are posting our hearts out. but, point taken.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3554134" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3554134">RonnieB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3554134" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3554134" class="dsq-comment-message">Can somebody issue a grown-man Amber alert for Tavis Smiley?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3554177" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3554177" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3554177">jdickenslaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3554177" class="dsq-comment-message">Tavis was on some morning shows, including NBC Today Show and Morning Joe.  I turned everytime I saw him.  To quote Sylvester the Cat, "he\'s des-s-s-picable!"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3554535" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3554535" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3554535" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3554535" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3554535" class="dsq-comment-message">I actually agreed with him when he was on Morning Joe this morning. He was trying to push back on Mika\'s "post-racial" bliss. He also spoke about the historical significance of Obama\'s win and how it is just the beginning. Nothing questionable.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3555313" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3555313" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3555313">jdickenslaw</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3555313" class="dsq-comment-message">Tavis mission in life will cease to exist if we ever enter a "post-racial" society, so he\'s always going to fight against that.  I want to know, why did anyone think we care what he thinks anymore?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3555779" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3555779" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3555779" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3555779" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3555779" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, both Rhondacoca and I agreed with what he was saying and the fact that his statement, however problematic, was about issues and about "real change" vs. the symbolic... that\'s why what Tavis said matters.<br><br>I don\'t give a f-ck if everybody in the world but me sees that point.  The fact is:  folks criticizing Tavis for being petty are being petty in their reflexive criticisms of Tavis.<br><br>All Black people don\'t think a like (we all know that) and we\'ve always had varying and often competing visions, even different goals.  If all folks care about is having a Black president then, in one sense, it\'s an insult to the lives, memory and legacy of our ancestors.  But maybe that\'s me...  because my Freedom Dreams are bigger.<br><br>I appreciate where we are and how big this is but this isn\'t the Promise Land many envisioned.  Maybe some, maybe even most did.  Maybe this is all some could ever conceive of.<br><br>To each his/her own...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3555620" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3555620" href="http://nquest2xl.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nquest</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3555620" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3555620" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Tavis really had an issue with sitting next to the Racial Arsonist in Chief (Pat Buchanan) and was just too down on the situation which made it look like it was both personal (ego-driven) and on the serious issue of real, substantive, structural change.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3554781" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3554781" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3554781">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3554781" class="dsq-comment-message">deleted</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3555004" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3555004" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3555004">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3555004" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3555004" class="dsq-comment-message">NEW WEDNESDAY OPEN THREAD IS UP</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3549686">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3549686" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3549686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3549686">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3549686" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3549686" class="dsq-comment-message">Just a few thoughts:<br><br>1.  I am so glad Obama won this election and proud to witness such a historical moment.  I couldn\'t stop grinning as I walked to work!<br><br>2.  Now that he will be the next president, we have to be objective about his position.  It will take him awhile (longer than one term i suspect) to clean up the sh*t from the last 8+ years.  He WILL make mistakes along the way.  As a people,  we should hold him responsible for his actions and not give him a free pass based on his color.  However, as people we need to support him in positive efforts to make changes, which brings me to my next point.<br><br>3.  We have got to come together as people and as a nation.  I observed this website for awhile and noticed that Republicans tend to get ripped up one side and down the other in blogs and comments.  Alright, enough is enough.  Put down the pitchforks and torches and stop picking on each other.  We need to remember that this country is special because we are allowed to have different opinions.  Remember, there are black Republicans who didn\'t want Obama in office and their are white Republicans who wanted him to be president.  I personally don\'t care if a Democrat or Republican is in office.  I just want someone to fix this mess that\'s been brewing for last two terms!    Obama has a hard road ahead of him and he CAN\'T do it by himself.  Moses couldn\'t lead the Israelites unless they rallied behind him as one.  Obama can\'t lead this nation if we don\'t rally behind him as one.<br><br>4.  In accordance with the glass fence that encased Obama while he gave his speech last night,  I think he should get his own pope mobile. :P  Seriously though,  I am praying that we don\'t have to relive the JFK tragedy...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3550111" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3550111" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3550111">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3550111" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550111" class="dsq-comment-message">S - it\'s all good.<br><br>As Barack said -- He is YOUR President too.  <br><br>I have to add regarding your statement, "As a people, we should hold him responsible for his actions and not give him a free pass based on his color." <br><br>As an FYI - colored people don\'t get free passes or were you asleep the last 2 years?  That is it from me.  Moving on. . . . yes we all need to work together to clean up the mess from the last 8 years.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3552219">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3552219" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3552219" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-3552219">the original s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3552219" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552219" class="dsq-comment-message">Someone took over my screen name.<br><br>I am not responsible for the post above.<br><br>And while I am not grinning and smiling, I am proud to witness this historic moment.<br><br>I would like to take this chance to say that while Obama did not get my vote yesterday, he will get my support. I hope that he will, with time,  allay my concerns,  that he will NOT be pushed to the left and that he will govern as a moderate. <br><br>Thank you all for the opportunity to express my views and values here at JJP.<br>I enjoyed the lively debate, but could have done without the name-calling and verbal abuse.<br><br>Now, with this victory, I hope that those on both sides of the political spectrum can put aside the hatred and vitriol that has consumed our politics for the past 8 years.<br><br>Let\'s disagree. Let\'s debate. Let\'s stand up and fight for what we believe in. But please, let us do so with respect and humility.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3552718" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3552718" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3552718" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3552718" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3552718" class="dsq-comment-message">HaHaHa...may the real S please stand up!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-3553189">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3553189" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3553189" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3553189" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3553189" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3553189" class="dsq-comment-message">Oops.<br><br>I offer my waterboarding service....but ya better find the other "S" before January 20.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-3550624" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-3550624" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-3550624" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-3550624" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-3550624" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m not grinning or smiling; the emotional weight of the last (almost) two years is still wearing off.<br><br>You\'re right; we do have to come together as a country and put aside the partisanship. The most cynical part of me doesn\'t think it can happen-at least not immediately. I hope I\'m wrong.<br><br>S, me, you, and other Republicans/conservatives have <b>got</b> to find <i>our</i> way again. Yes, we took a beating last night...and already, we\'ve taken to bemoaning the "death of our nation." The Obama Administration-however long it lasts-won\'t be the death of America. But it sends a damn strong signal of what we have become...and how far we have to go to fix it.<br><br>To the Obama camp: again, congratulations. <br><br>And a warning-Republicans went to Washington and became the embodiment of everything that contradicts our beliefs and values. Don\'t make the same mistake. That is the <i>one</i> lesson you all can take from the GOP.</div>\
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				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');
}

})();




