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She's got serious problems. But if she runs with McCain, no one will fully vet her on this issue.\"</br><br></br><br>Can you explain the Hillary-Abramoff connection, as well as the sweat shops?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_10:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6a15e2f4a8734cebd4efee6381b0eb4f", "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}, "1964546": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From what I understand on the Daily Kos piece, Abramoff helped create some loophole with the Mariana Islands that allowed sweatshops to flourish.  The Tan Family of Hong Kong exploited the loophole and they have a bunch of sweat shops.  They gave a bunch of money to Hillary.  I guess somebody could explain it better than I can.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_11:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1964547": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Calling fellow Dems racist for not voting for Obama will backfire on Obama in the general election. <br></br><br>People do not take kindly to being called racist and are not likely to come back and \"do the right thing\" and vote for Obama after the self-declared, morally superior Obama supporters have insulted them in a most egregious and personal way.</br><br></br><br>Obama will be the nominee, so how does it benefit him to so split the party? 64% of Dems want Hillary to stay in the race. Does Obama really think he doesn't need white voters?</br><br></br><br>General election moderates and independents will recoil at the accusation that those who do not support Obama are racist.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_11:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bbb5f18b1f882407561a7f27f4fb2937", "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}, "1964548": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Calling fellow Dems racist for not voting for Obama will backfire on Obama in the general election. <br>-------------</br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br>Hillary is the one calling white voters \"racist,\" not Obama.  Hillary is the one threatening that white voters won't vote for Obama because he's black.  Obama's not the one making that argument.  Hillary's camp is the one making the argument that only blacks and eggheads are voting for Obama, when everyone knows that's simply not true.  So Hillary is the one who needs to be taken to task, not Obama, because the Clinton camp has been the ones, from the very beginning, injecting race into the discussion.  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Maybe not as hard as others....but he did.<br></br><br>He ran ads, wrote an op-ed in the paper, appeared in Charleston, WV (their paper also endorsed him).</br><br></br><br>So I would not say he didn't bother to campaign there.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_11:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "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}, "1964550": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "s.,<br></br><br>General election moderates and independents who are not racists won't recall because no one is talking about them.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_11:19:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1964551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Only racists get offended when they're called out for being racists.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_11:20:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1964552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Hillary Rodham Nixon is running for a spot on John McCain's ticket.\"<br></br><br>\"I've been saying this for months.\"</br><br></br><br>\"She will go all the say to Denver, forced a brokered convention, lose, and give the Dem. party a big old fuck you by hitching onto her friend McCain's ticket.\"</br><br></br><br>\"Republicans will welcome her because they now know she's one of them.\"</br><br></br><br>\"It's the only way McCain has a chance and it's the only way Hillary Rodham Nixon can get back to the White House.\"</br><br></br><br>-Republicans aren't THAT stupid</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_11:21:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "56f1b58fb6a26c86d03a37c2ea95329e", "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}, "1964553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hillary Clinton's pitch to donors and superdelegates:<br></br><br>\"HE'S BLACK, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND!\"</br><br></br><br>\"HE'S BLAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_11:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "56f1b58fb6a26c86d03a37c2ea95329e", "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}, "1964554": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I understand that HRC refuses to go away, but does anyone ever have those days when you just have to tune it all out because all you have left is a strong desire to run into her somewhere on the campaign trail and kick her in the shins?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_11:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1964555": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Of course I won't be doing any kicking, I'll just take Rikyrah's advice and \"have a peaceful day!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_11:34:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1964556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>-Republicans aren't THAT stupid</i><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>Yes they are. That desperate too.</br><br></br><br>Terrible combination.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_11:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1964557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I challenge everybody here to pick up the phone and call a friend somewhere else in the US from where they live and ask their opinion about last night's result and come back here an report that any of them said something other than something like, \"Of course she won big. It's WEST VIRGINIA, silly.\"<br></br><br>Racists in West VA (and not all white people in WVa. are racist) are proud to be racists.</br><br></br><br>Just ask them.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_11:58:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1964558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who is the dude who keeps showing up behind Hillary at every speech wearing the boxing gloves?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_12:05:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1964559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "anonymous 8:28,<br></br><br>actually, I'd settle for the capability of using a cast iron skillet unfettered against a large number of her surrogates.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_12:07:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1964560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "B-Serious and Angela - I was there with you last week.  lolol<br>However, I wouldn't worry about what Hillary is saying at this point or what posts she insists on attempting to move.  It will not work.  So her saying Barack has to meet the 2209 number or that FL and MI should be seated at without penalty is irrelevent.  I watched MSNBC last night and the the it was clear that the pundits, Russert etc. mentally threw their hands up.  YOU CAN'T REACH ANYONE IN HILLARYLAND!.  You just can't. No amount of logic will make a difference so what should Barack do? The same thing he is doing now, preparing for the Nov fight with John McCain.  </br><br></br><br>I now think it is fine if Hillary wants to pursue her right to stay in the race.  It doesn't make any difference and she is spending her own money.  Barack gained what  . . 4 more super delegates today?  Let Hillary do her thing . . eventually her balloon will start losing air and she will come down to the real world.  As long as she does not go negative against Barack -- she can do this.  More power to her.  </br><br></br><br>We also have to think about the remaining states that REALLY want to vote.  They want to participate in this process.  That too is a plus.  I have been reading a lot lately and folks are truly excited. In short . . . keep your head up. It will be over soon.</br><br></br><br>Blessings.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_12:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1231fd2a873665b8a67c9bd4abf4525c", "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}, "1964561": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/go-away-you-horrible-human-being.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Go Away You Horrible Human Being</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_12:44:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1964562": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Excuse my language, but....<br></br><br>What the fuck?</br><br></br><br><a href=\"http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmU2YThkOWQyMjg4MDZmYTExYWFmYWEyNzI1ZDA5M2Q=\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Palestinians in Gaza Are Phonebanking for Barack Obama</a></br><br></br><br>Anyone see a problem with this?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_13:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1964563": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d.,<br>It's their dime.  If they want to phonebank for Obama, what's the problem?  Oh--I get it--they're Palestinians so they MUST be terrorists.</br><br></br><br>For the record, I trust nothing coming from a Republican rag mag.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_13:39:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aa3ee71bc9714917dc34dde9e4e2b41", "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}, "1964564": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re the popular vote..<br></br><br>Wolf did scenarios on The Situation Room last week and he showed that even if Florida and Michigan were counted as-is, Barack would still be ahead in every metric.  They had to estimate the popular vote numbers for the caucus states.</br><br></br><br>I'll see if I can find it on redlasso.</br><br></br><br>B-serious is right.  The Clinton campaign is stalling for time.  They know the numbers don't favour them in ANY scenario.  But they keep stalling for time.  Each time we get to a crossroads, they come out and offer another improbable metric as why they should be allowed to continue.</br><br></br><br>The latest carrot has been the 2209 number.  It sets the groundwork so that when Obama reaches 2025 in a couple weeks, they will be able to say it doesn't count, and justify staying in the race until the convention.  Also, Obama's been posting a running delegate tally on his page.  The 2209 makes him seem farther away from the finish line and imply there's no way for him to reach 2209.</br><br></br><br>Democrats may not realize they've been had until it's too late.  They've been lulled into a false sense of security by Hillary's constant spinning and the carrots.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_13:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1964565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Felicia,<br>I'm not insinuating that the people making the calls are terrorists. </br><br></br><br>But-and this is a hypothetical-if I get a call from one of these people about Obama, and I tell them to kick rocks, what's to stop them from calling in a few of their friends to \"adjust\" my thinking?</br><br></br><br>And the actual report came from Al Jazeera.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_13:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1964566": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ d,<br></br><br>...People from all over the world are phonebanking for Obama. Republicans and Hillary supporters also phonebank against him..... they probably say unflattering things.  Instead of putting their names down, they type names like \"Operation Chaos\" against their list of calls made.</br><br></br><br>So, what does that say about Obama that all these people phonebank for, or against him?</br><br></br><br>You ARE insinuating they're terrorists.  Like I said, People from the UK and Europe also phonebank as well as Republicans and Hillary supporters.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_14:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1964567": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d.,<br></br><br>I watched the al Jazeera video, and I see nothing wrong with what these young men are doing.  </br><br></br><br>If it's legal for people to phonebank from other nations--and I'm hoping the Obama campaign has already checked to make sure it is--what these men are doing is noble.  </br><br></br><br>They say they want peace in the Middle East, and they think Obama can bring it about.  These young men were born into apartheid.  They can never leave Gaza without special permission.  I can't imagine being forced to live in an overcrowded land only twice the size of D.C., knowing this is where I must live and die.</br><br></br><br>I hope one day Israelis and Palestinians will be able to live side by side and freely travel between borders.  The <i>National Review</i>, and you by proxy, are doing nothing but fearmongering.</br><br></br><br>A great, eye-opening movie that I would recommend for all JJP posters is <i>Paradise Now</i> (2005).  It depicts life in the West Bank, which is supposed to be slightly better than Gaza, so you can imagine how bad it is for Gazans.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_14:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6aa3ee71bc9714917dc34dde9e4e2b41", "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}, "1964568": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From the NY Times:<br></br><br>\"The Democrat, Travis Childers, a local courthouse official, pulled together a coalition of blacks, who turned out heavily, and old-line \u201cyellow dog\u201d Democrats, to beat his Republican opponent, Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, a Memphis suburb. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, the vote was 54 percent for Mr. Childers to 46 percent for Mr. Davis.\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_14:50:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9fcb7c771a7713dda01aa936fd426bfe", "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}, "1964569": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Felicia,<br>That's fine.</br><br></br><br>Truth,</br><br>I try really hard to limit the \"terrorist\" designation to people who really deserve it. Hamas does, based on their past actions. I'm not certain if the designation would be appropriate for every Palestinian; as such, I didn't refer to them all as terrorists.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_14:53:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1964570": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There are lots of folks I wish were alive to witness this time in US history.   My parents and an old boyfriend come to mind.  <br></br><br>In that line of thinking, wouldn't it be wonderful to hear Ed Bradley's commentary on this whole primary season?   Would'ntcha just love to hear Ed interview Barack?</br><br></br><br>Just reminiscin'...</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_15:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "cac704fd42d02c9cead997b5c53f0fcd", "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}, "1964571": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://thehill.com/a.b.-stoddard/dignity-or-jihad-2008-05-07.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dignity or Jihad?</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_15:18:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1964572": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "NARAL endorsed Obama.<br></br><br>Let the ' Judas' Comments begin from the Hillpatine lackeys.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_15:19:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1964573": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig wrote: <i>Hillary Rodham Nixon is running for a spot on John McCain's ticket.</i><br></br><br>It seems like a good fit for her actions (and her approach to policy) and I have thought about this too. But -- if she does that, then it seems to me that all the Democrats/Obama would have to do is run an intense ad campaign with clips of her promising to work so hard for the Democratic nominee and have some voice over about how she will promise anything but then do the opposite, and how voters can't trust what she promises.</br><br></br><br>And in general, seems to me that if she moves over to the Repub side, the \"making nice\" gloves can come right off. It's not Obama at that point it's the whole party. Obama can't beat on her but the party maybe can. But it won't do that as long as she remains in the fold. Once she moves out of it .... I would guess all the withheld stuff will come flooding out.</br><br></br><br>Of course, I could be wrong. Overall I tend to vastly overestimate the outrage at bald-faced lies and betrayals in this culture.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_15:20:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "de3917e982ff609a0d6f7fb5e3c8f079", "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}, "1964574": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What's this about?<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=15082&amp;R=13A8225952\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Jeremiah Wright's 'Trumpet'</a></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_15:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1964575": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wouldn't know.  Rev Wright is not running for the President of the United States and is free to do whatever he sees fit.  That is what makes this country great.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_15:59:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1231fd2a873665b8a67c9bd4abf4525c", "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}, "1964576": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d,<br></br><br>you ask a lot of questions but never answer any.   I want to know what it says about Barack that people in UK, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Republicans, Hillary supporters use his phonebank tool?</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_16:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1964577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Val,<br>I'm just curious.</br><br></br><br>Truth,</br><br>I don't care who's doing it. That sort of personal information shouldn't be compromised.</br><br></br><br>By <i><b>ANY</b></i> candidate.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_16:07:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1964578": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is President Bill Clinton channeling former Alabama Governor George Wallace...<br></br><br>I have always wondered, but after <a href=\"http://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/of-blue-collars-and-rednecks/\" rel=\"nofollow\">reading this analysis</a>, it's hard to doubt it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_16:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "67278f84b7b6cbb795c7c96e7a08dabe", "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}, "1964579": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Friends, please help me calm down. I just heard on cnn that Howard Dean is prepared to announce a joint fundraising plan between the Obama and kkklinton campaigns. Then they show her continuing to talk about how she isn't going anywhere....Wolf Blitzer is interviewing her and she commented how she (my paraphrase) thinks Obama is too idealistic or doesn't know how it the system works. she said you can't just go hold hands and hope that things happen. What an insult! I'm afraid I won't be donating to Obama any longer if she is going to get any of the $.I understand that he has to do what he has to do, and I have to do what I have to do. If she ends up as his VP, I'm truly done. I'm going to email his website. What a bummer!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_16:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "889c732285beb0fc252d78b61edaa231", "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}, "1964580": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "teacher,<br></br><br>I think that deal is between the DNC and each campaign.  I believe the funds will be separate...but someone who knows for sure can confirm.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_16:57:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1964581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "All - NARAL just endorsed Senator Obama for President and the Clinton supporters are pitching a ROYAL fit.  They could use some positive posts right about now.  It is REALLY bad. Get the word out if you can.<br></br><br>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-keenan/why-naral-pro-choice-amer_b_101708.html</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_17:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1231fd2a873665b8a67c9bd4abf4525c", "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}, "1964582": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Regarding the Obama Clinton fundrasing thing -- He cannot give Senator Clinton money donated to his campaign. That is the law.  So don't worry your money cannot be transferred to her.  The can ask him to ask his supporters to send her donations which is entirely voluntary or he can help her schedule some type of fundraiser on her behalf.  Again -- he can ask his supporters to help her out.  But he is not able to give her any money donated to him.  I will see if I can find that specific rule and will post.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_17:30:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1231fd2a873665b8a67c9bd4abf4525c", "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}, "1964583": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good read.<br></br><br>1) John Edwards will endorse Barack Obama.</br><br>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/14/john-edwards-endorsing-ob_n_101749.html</br><br></br><br>2) GOP Adviser:  This is '94 in Reverse.  We're Pathetic</br><br>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/14/gop-adviser-this-is-94-in_n_101756.html</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_17:36:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1231fd2a873665b8a67c9bd4abf4525c", "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}, "1964584": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK. I read more asbout it on Daily Kos Dean's press release says:<br> </br><br>\"The fund will allow both candidates to raise money for the Party, forming one joint fundraising committee account that will accept money for the nominee\u2019s primary and general election and for the DNC.\" </br><br></br><br>and I feel better. It's \"allegedly\" for the DNC, which is low on $.</br><br></br><br>Edwards is endorsing Obama! I'm glad he has the spine to show some leadership. It's hard for me to understand that if they are really for the success and progress of the party, why won't they show more leadership. I think the floodgates will open after the final contest on June 3rd. KKKlinton insists that Fl & MI be seated just the way they voted. Why don't white people consider her to be a cheater? Marion Jones is in jail for cheating, and Barry Bond is being continuously harassed...Why is it ok for KKKlinton to cheat and not be censured by the party?  I'm not going to be able to donate to them to cheat Black people, even if he is going to win in spite of it. I think I'm going to email them and let them know.</br><br></br><br>And as far as Obama not wanting us to support 528's or whatever the right # is, I understand him and I disagree. They are going to tell scurrilous lies about him. I think there needs to be someone to tell the TRUTH about McCryptkeeper.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_17:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "889c732285beb0fc252d78b61edaa231", "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}, "1964585": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "teacher,<br></br><br>I was just about to post that for you. I was just reading it over at dailykos</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_17:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "432619ba625f6a3e6b9013e9117e3759", "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}, "1964586": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, it's pretty ugly over on the NARAL board.  I posted a positive comment...It looked so tiny and lonesome LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_17:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1964587": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Rules posted on Daily Kos:<br></br><br>Joint Fundraising Notice</br><br>General Rule</br><br></br><br>In addition to any notice required under \"Disclaimer Notices on Communications\" and \"Solicitation Notices,\" participants must include a joint fundraising notice with every solicitation for contributions. The notice must contain the following information:</br><br></br><br>\u2022 The names of all participants, regardless of whether they are registered political committees or unregistered organizations;</br><br></br><br>\u2022 The allocation formula;</br><br></br><br>\u2022 A statement informing contributors that they may designate contributions for a particular participant; and</br><br></br><br>\u2022 A statement that the allocation formula may change if any contributor makes a contribution that exceeds the amount he or she may lawfully give to any participant. 102.17(c)(2)(i).</br><br></br><br>Special Situations</br><br></br><br>In two situations, participants must include additional information in the joint fundraising notice:</br><br></br><br>\u2022 If a participant is engaging in the joint fundraiser to pay off outstanding debts, the notice must state that the allocation formula may change if the participant receives enough funds to pay its debts. (emphasis mine)</br><br></br><br>\u2022 If, under State law, any unregistered participant is permitted to receive contributions prohibited under the Act, the notice must say that such contributions will be given only to participants that may legally accept them. 102.17(c)(2)(ii</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_17:43:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "889c732285beb0fc252d78b61edaa231", "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}, "1964588": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "With Edwards' endorsement maybe more supers will not only endorse but switch to Obama by week's end to nullify any designs Hillary has on seating FL & MI or changing the delegates to 2210.  Even so, she'll still take it to the Convention under the pretense that delegates can change their minds.<br></br><br>I am sure she will NEVER drop out.  This is going to the convention and even after that, she will continue to make trouble.  I don't know how Dems didn't see this coming.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_17:51:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1964589": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ok I found the guidance re. helping to pay off campaign debts for opponents.  *Obama has not said he would do this btw.  Media spin at this point.<br></br><br>Obama cannot under federal law assume direct responsibility for Clinton's debts because that would amount to an illegal contribution, far above contribution limits.</br><br></br><br>There are, however, a number of other alternatives. Obama could, for example, send out a solicitation in Clinton's behalf to his own donors and to other donor lists, asking for contributions to be directed to her campaign. He could, in addition, hold a joint fundraiser with the money</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_18:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1231fd2a873665b8a67c9bd4abf4525c", "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}, "1964590": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Truthseeker - last night her campaign manager alluded to the fact that it would probably go to the convention.  So you are right on that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_18:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1231fd2a873665b8a67c9bd4abf4525c", "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}, "1964591": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Anybody watching MSNBC? Pat Buchannan just lost his marbles again. He has been moderately tame the last couple of weeks. They just kinds let him go off on 15 minute tangent (Black people are only voting for Obama because he is Black, West Virginians are not racist, Geraldine Ferarro was right, yada yada). I never thought I would live to see the day where Chris Matthews would be the \"voice of reason\" just now in a three way conversation between Matthews, Buchanan, and Andrea Mitchell.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_19:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "cda55c7832b52db750659b8f518a520f", "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}, "1964592": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "honey01.  Yes I saw that.  I didn't know whether to  . . . umm let me let it go.  I agree with you Chris Matthews blew me away.  I didn't expect him of all people to be the voice of reason either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_20:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "1231fd2a873665b8a67c9bd4abf4525c", "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}, "1964593": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>Just saw this on the Hillary blog comment section.  I don't thing it was covered by the MSM..they were busy reporting on the Edwards Endorsement!  HA:</b><br></br><br>6:15 p.m. TONIGHT: Members of Congress To Hold Press Conference On Hillary\u2019s Strong Pro-Choice Record</br><br></br><br>Clinton National Campaign Co-Chair Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones and other Members of Congress will hold a press conference at 6:15 p.m. EDT tonight to discuss Hillary Clinton\u2019s strong pro-choice record.</br><br></br><br>Members voicing their support today for Clinton\u2019s advocacy on behalf of a woman\u2019s right to choose include, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Rep. Nita Lowey, Rep. Jane Harman, Rep. Diane Watson, Rep. Diana DeGette, Rep. Doris Matsui, Rep. Laura Richardson, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Louise Slaughter, Rep. Allyson Schwartz, Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Corrine Brown, Rep. Yvette Clarke, Rep. Darlene Hooley, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Rep. Linda Sanchez, Rep. Tammy Baldwin, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, Rep. Hilda Solis, Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Rep. Betty Sutton, Rep. Grace Napolitano and Rep. Shelley Berkley.</br><br></br><br>Wednesday, May 14</br><br></br><br>6:15 p.m. EDT</br><br></br><br>Members of Congress Discuss Hillary\u2019s Strong Pro-Choice Record</br><br></br><br>Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee</br><br>Second Floor Conference Room</br><br>430 South Capitol Street</br><br>Washington, DC</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_20:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1964594": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/obama-finance\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Amazing Money Machine</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_20:43:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1964595": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "An ABC survey says that 59% of African-Americans would like to see Hillary as the VP candidate on the Democratic ticket? How can that be?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_20:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "4c70262718cce8fd94db2721786ee38f", "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}, "1964596": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "..Not buying that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_21:12:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1964597": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>On Huffington, I found this dead on comment on how Lanny would respond to the Edwards endorment</b><br></br><br>FogBelter </br><br>Has Lanny Davis chimed in on this endorsement? He would probably say something like ...</br><br></br><br></br><br>--Now everyone knows the respect I have for Senator Obama, but lets be clear here ... just because Senator Edwards stands beside him at a gathering of four or five people and says nice things ... maybe even invokes the word \"endorse\" itself ... that doesn't need to be considered as an official \"endorsement\" of Senator Obama ... I know ... I know ... there are a lot of passionate Obama supporters who may ... think ... they heard an endorsement, but from where I am sitting here ... and what I observed ... I would be hard pressed to see an endorsement in Senator Edwards drop by in Michigan ... I respect Senator Obama, you know I do, but we are playing semantic games here when we should be focusing on Senator Clinton's 41 point victory in West Virginia ... and one more thing ...--</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_23:35:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0e63fda3bc8752465623f674ffcc5f40", "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}, "1964598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "not buying it either, truthseeker. not in the least.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-15_02:20:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1964507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10315.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Obama: Don't fund independent groups</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_03:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1964508": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/7641.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Who Might Be In An Obama Cabinet?</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_03:28:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1964509": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/1836.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Legend of Barack Obama</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_03:29:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1964510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama needs to make a big Constitution Speech. He needs to tell America that The Imperial Presidency is over. That the next President will respect The Constitution and the rule of law, and this is very important, that the Vice-President, in his Administration, will follow The Constitution. <br></br><br>He needs to make it very clear that he has no intentions of having a Cheney as VP, talking impeachable BS about not being part of the Executive Branch. I believe he needs to link it to his very expansive and impressive policy papers on transparency in government.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_03:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f85f4de88a30987f0360c336da9569ae", "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}, "1964511": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's gonna be interesting to see the media narrative for the next couple of days.<br></br><br>So far, it doesn't look like they're taking the bait.  No one's questioning whether or not Obama will win the Democratic nomination.</br><br></br><br>But the right wing is using this as Exhibit A as to why they think Obama can't win the general.  Gretta from Fox News was all, \"this is a bright neon sign\" screaming Obama can't win.  Disgusting.  </br><br></br><br>Plus I'm starting to notice that some \"democratic\" pundits are gonna give a half-a*sed defense of Obama for the general election.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_07:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d1a8e45844ef20a90904a65e60371f42", "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}, "1964512": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And what's with this 2209 crap?<br></br><br>Correct me if I'm wrong, but Clinton's been arguing MI/FL for 3 months.  Why is she just coming up with that 2209 mark now?</br><br></br><br>Why is the party even considering this?  Why is the media even giving this air-time.  WHY are people letting her move the goal-posts like this?</br><br></br><br>Obama needs to squash this right now.  </br><br></br><br>Again, Rachel Maddow was spot-on when she said Obama fails to explain the damage that this prolonged race is doing to the Party.  Of course, Hillary thinks it's good for the party. . . she's not gonna be the nominee.  She doesn't have to campaign in the Fall.  </br><br></br><br>I am convinced that she is staying in to weaken Obama for the general and poison the well of voters.  She's giving her members permission to vote against their interests and party.  And for what?  What did Obama do to deserve the \"I won't vote for him under any circumstances\" bs?  </br><br></br><br>Lanny Davis was spreading that meme all night.  Larry King asked him 2 or 3 times why.  Why do some people have such anger towards Obama?  He never answered the question.</br><br></br><br>It's one thing to say you don't like someone or he doesn't \"share your values.\"  It's another thing entirely for DEMOCRATS to openly say they'll NEVER vote for another Democrat --- especially when Obama's treated Hillary with kid gloves this entire process.</br><br></br><br>I wouldn't vote for Hillary if you paid me.  But at least I have reasons.  It's not pure emotion.  I can point to policy stances, campaign tactics and divisive comments that shaped my opinion of Hillary.  I've yet to hear a logical reasoned argument as to why some Hillary supporters won't vote for Obama.  It always comes back to the same thing:  he didn't wait his turn.  Sorry, but that's not good enough.</br><br></br><br>Someone from Clinton's camp actually told the media that it was \"Hillary first, party second.\"  And no one called her on this.  Are you kidding me?</br><br></br><br>Lanny Davis said that Clinton won't concede even if/when Obama hits 2025.  WTF?</br><br></br><br>And let's stop this \"she's a fighter\" bs.  No, she's delusional.  </br><br></br><br>Listen, I could challenge Lebron James to a game of one-on-one.  I could lose 10-0.  I could turn around and say best two out of three; best three out of five.  I could do this for the rest of my life.  I'm not \"fighting\" . . . I'm just wasting his time.  </br><br></br><br>Hillary Clinton is a waste of time!  Every day she stays in is a day wasted on her ego-trip.  Every day she stays in is a day she distracts the party from beating McCain.  Every dollar spent to campaign against her is a dollar that could have been spent on McCain.  Enough already!</br><br></br><br>She has NO mathematical path to the nomination.  Her camp has no shame in telling the press that she's only staying in because she hopes something bad happens to a fellow Democrat so she can steal the nomination.</br><br></br><br>This is the cost of \"give her space.\"  Obama gave her space and she used that \"space\" to move the goal posts once again and push this \"2209\" spin.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_08:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d1a8e45844ef20a90904a65e60371f42", "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}, "1964513": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is it just me, or is the MSM blaming Obama because WV didn't vote him? Sure, BO could've campaigned so as not to appear to poo-poo the state, but look at the REASON why WV aren't voting for him: RACE -- an issue which Hillary has been pushing all along! Why hasn't the MSM taken WV to task for racism, and why haven't they taken Clinton to task for race-baiting?? <br></br><br><b>B-Serious:</b> I also saw Suzanne Malveux say that HRC's supporters say it's \"Hillary first, the party second\". I was floored, not because her supporters said this (because anyone with an ounce of common sense could figure that out), but because the CNN pundits SAID NOTHING! NOTHING! They just sat there and said not one word. SMH</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_08:20:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "6a15e2f4a8734cebd4efee6381b0eb4f", "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}, "1964514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "morning all.  time to step it up in blogger land and blunt the \"unity ticket\" crap.  And here is <a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/14/72245/8789/872/514757\" rel=\"nofollow\">why</a>.<br></br><br>icebergslim</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_08:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c8b2d42511d55e0cb79da4b7de989dab", "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}, "1964515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WV changed nothing.  Everything that happened last night and this morning is utterly predictable to us so we know the Obama campaign saw it coming.<br></br><br>As for the reasons that Sen. Clinton and her team keep saying \"we are fighting on\", it's because of 1 of 2 reasons:</br><br></br><br>1.  They have convinced themselves that somehow they can win this thing or . . . the more likely choice</br><br></br><br>2.  They need to keep raising money.</br><br></br><br>Sen. Clinton can't run the \"I'm broke, help me out\" campaign so she has to keep pushing the idea that she has a chance of winning.</br><br></br><br>She doesn't.</br><br></br><br>And the biggest indication of that is where the money and the SD's are going.</br><br></br><br>And I really don't think what Sen. Clinton is doing is going to divide the party.  Once people hear that Sen. McCain's plans are I think they will be well motivated to defeat him.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_08:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "bc67a38bb57ec2663caef9c8162bfd38", "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}, "1964516": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Having Chris Matthews say that Hillary was \"almost the Al Sharpton of White people\" ALMOST made last night a net gain.<br></br><br>It's not even that I agree or that it makes sense...but damn if that aint amusing to me.</br><br></br><br>http://youtube.com/watch?v=HchanK0N3Mg</br><br></br><br>Or maybe im delirious.</br><br></br><br>oh and in honor of Dana Milbank</br><br></br><br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Lq771TVm4</br><br></br><br>C ustomer: \"Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.\"</br><br></br><br>Pet-shop owner: \"No, no he's not dead, he's -- he's resting! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian blue, isn't it, aye? Beautiful plumage!\"</br><br></br><br>-- From \"Monty Python's Flying Circus\"</br><br></br><br>11:45 a.m., Melrose Hotel, Foggy Bottom: It's Day 7 of the Clinton Campaign Death Watch -- a full week since the official arbiter of the Democratic primary, Tim Russert, declared the campaign over and Barack Obama the nominee. Hillary Clinton's advisers continue to insist that the candidate's prospects are very much alive, but the press isn't buying it. Exhibit A: There are two press buses waiting at the hotel here for Clinton's trip to her victory rally in West Virginia, but the entire press contingent doesn't quite fill one. It isn't until the entourage arrives at Dulles Airport that Clinton aides learn that the second bus is still idling, empty, at the hotel.</br><br></br><br>If there is importance in the results of the primary in West Virginia, the press corps isn't letting on. During the security sweep at Dulles, some play Hacky Sack with a cigarette carton. Awaiting the candidate on the tarmac, two guys from CNN toss a football. Aboard the plane, one member of the press corps entertains his colleagues by flopping down the aisle on his belly, like a fish. </br><br></br><br>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302862.html</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:00:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ace8018620947824dbdaa5c619193d07", "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}, "1964517": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@ sepia<br></br><br><i>Is it just me, or is the MSM blaming Obama because WV didn't vote him? Sure, BO could've campaigned so as not to appear to poo-poo the state, but look at the REASON why WV aren't voting for him: RACE -- an issue which Hillary has been pushing all along! Why hasn't the MSM taken WV to task for racism, and why haven't they taken Clinton to task for race-baiting??</i></br><br></br><br>It't not just you, sepia.  The MSM is subtely attempting to \"blame\" Barack for not getting the white-bigot vote.  </br><br></br><br>You have to understand; most of these people are Hillary-crats, and are not only seeing their hero go down in flames, but their careers too.  They've known that they could occupy the seats of power so long as political leaders shared the same faces, and came from the same places.  </br><br></br><br>With Barack as president--even as Democratic nominee--there's going to be a great deal of resentment by many whites in the MSM. </br><br></br><br>Right now, I see their \"blaming\" Barack for not attracting more white-bigot-voters as mockery.  They're saying \"well well Mr. Walk-on-Water, you're not as popular as you think\".</br><br></br><br>As Barack progresses, we should look for more parting shots like these.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:21:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "25c2ebf4464c5d95fa227ddd4a0d2fe5", "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}, "1964518": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "the consensus is in. w.va. did not change anything.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:26:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "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}, "1964519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "the consensus is in. w.va. did not change anything.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:27:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "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}, "1964520": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "the popular vote metric is bullshit because of the fact that so many states do caucuses. if they want to use it, they have to revote minnesota. colorado, washington, iowa, and others. obama might not win by the percentages the caucus provided but his popular vote margin WOULD increase. so choose your poison hillbots. the party has chosen delegates and that IS the metric.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:31:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "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}, "1964521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hillary is going to stay in the race until the convention, and I think everyone needs to realize and accept that.  <br></br><br>She's not staying in the race to get the 08 nomination: she knows she's not going to get it.  And it has nothing to do with the black vote, it's that Democrats as a whole have a better chance of picking up seats with Obama at the top of the ticket whether he wins or not.</br><br></br><br>She's not staying in the race to raise more money: She's $20 mil in the hole and each day she stays in the race she's spending more money.  I think she'll end up having to eat that $12 mil she loaned herself.</br><br></br><br>She's not staying in to prepare for '12: if she is seen as the reason a black man with a good chance of becoming president didn't, I don't know that she'll have a whole lot of support.  She may think people will forget by then, but I don't think so.</br><br></br><br>She's staying in the race because she can and it's personal to her and her supporters. She's on the \"Get Back Tour '08\" and she's staying in the race to, as the poster above said, poison the well.  Make Obama to appear to be an illegitimate candidate (hence the 2209 number) who \"stole\" the nomination from a qualified nominee because of affirmative action (hence Ferraro's comments).   But she can't be seen as the direct cause of his loss.  That's why she's pinning it on \"hard working white voters\".  If Obama loses, it's not Hillary's fault...it's just that America wasn't ready for a black president and the Democrats ran a very flawed candidate just to score affirmative action points.</br><br></br><br>Also, some people think she's trying to worm her way on the ticket.  She's not.  She's purposely acting like an asshole so he won't ask her to be on the ticket.  Therefore when her voters trot off to John McCain, Obama will catch the blame.</br><br></br><br></br><br>She's not doing this to get on the ticket.  She's doing all this to destroy Obama.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1964522": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "it is not about white working class people...it is about appalachia. see the hillary hot spot maps. w.va. and ky. are dead center....and yes it is racism in appalachia and it is disgusting and time for them to grow up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:33:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "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}, "1964523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "low income whites in oregon will go for obama. low income whites voted for obama in wisconsin. no exit polls in caucus states like minnesota, colorado, and washington. guess the whites in the north west see something they don't in appalachia.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:38:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "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}, "1964524": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "a difference between unanimous support by blacks for obama and appalachian whites for clinton is that blacks have been voting for white presidents since they were aloud to vote. including bill clinton. appalachians have never voted for a black president. it is time for appalachians to get on board the train to the 21st century.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:41:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "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}, "1964525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hillary Rodham Nixon is running for a spot on John McCain's ticket.<br></br><br>I've been saying this for months.</br><br></br><br>She will go all the say to Denver, forced a brokered convention, lose, and give the Dem. party a big old fuck you by hitching onto her friend McCain's ticket.</br><br></br><br>Republicans will welcome her because they now know she's one of them.</br><br></br><br>It's the only way McCain has a chance and it's the only way Hillary Rodham Nixon can get back to the White House.</br><br></br><br>That's why the \"Hillary first, party second\" chants are getting play.</br><br></br><br>It's all part of the script the Nixons have been writing since February 19 when this race was over. When they put forth their Rethug tactics in full force.</br><br></br><br>She's not a fighter, she's a soul-less cheat. And she will do anything to get into the White House.</br><br></br><br>After all, her husband has made too many promises to too many international leaders and corporations to go gently.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1964526": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>What did Obama do to deserve the \"I won't vote for him under any circumstances\" bs? </i><br></br><br>The same reason certain Obama supporters have issues with Rev. Wright.  It's the \"he didn't have to\" syndrome.  For them, it's he (Obama) didn't have to run so well this year which was supposed to be all about Hillary.  </br><br></br><br></br><br><i>It always comes back to the same thing: he didn't wait his turn.</i></br><br></br><br>Yep!  And that's the same kind of \"not good enough\", emotion-laden response people have given regarding Rev. Wright NPC appearance.  Obama (along with a number of his supporters) echoed on the media's line.  Nobody called Obama on his inaccuracies and inconsistencies...</br><br></br><br>I say that because I have no use for naked partisanship no matter who the candidate is.  To be clear,  the basic nature of the criticism against Rev. Wright was \"he could have waited.\"</br><br></br><br>So I find it rather ironic, hypocritical actually, for anyone to rightly criticize the emotional nature of the attitudes of Democratic voters who have issues with Obama while clinging (Obama pun intended) to emotion-based, media spun (and mimicked) attitudes against Rev. Wright without critically examining the problematic Obama narrative in both of the unparalleled speech/press conference events Obama devoted... NOT THE THE RACE-BAITING the Clintons perpetrated... NOT to anything related to \"bitter-gate\" or dust-ups about Obama's comments about his grandmother being a \"typical white\" person... NOT Geraldine Ferraro's comments...</br><br></br><br>The hypocrisy runs deep because few people ever ventured to say \"Obama didn't have to [hold a press conference/speech to berate another \"Black man\" or demean another \"Black man's\" point-of-view, etc., subtly or forcefully].\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964527": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think it's interesting that Obama really didn't even bother to campaign in WV since his core constituency wasn't there. <br></br><br>OH/PA/WV share the same type of demographic-disaffected workers from industries in decline-and Obama can't seem to win among them.</br><br></br><br>I'm not sure if it's a show-stopper for him, especially if he's going to continue to write them off. But it is a cause for concern.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:46:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "0183bc94f5be8b9ec79636f3f2174ff5", "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}, "1964528": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "maureen dowd has another irritating opinion today in which she concludes that obama needs to prevent the appalachian rejection of his candidacy become set in stone. yeah it is obama's fault that appalachia is holding on to it's centuries old prejudices. he shouldn't have allowed that to happen...bad obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:47:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "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}, "1964529": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>Hillary Rodham Nixon is running for a spot on John McCain's ticket.</b><br></br><br>McCain supposedly congratulated HRC on her victory.  I may have missed it but one of the news channels mentioned it and seemed like they were going to entertain discussion on the McCain-Clinton relationship (McCain apparently hasn't congratulated Obama).</br><br></br><br>Somebody did make a point to note how Clinton said she and her Republican party-mate, John McCain, were ready to be president, etc. while Obama was not.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3ecde559248958521e4cb25a77f2ee65", "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}, "1964530": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "d. you need to read my posts", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:49:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "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}, "1964531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "K.Olbermann said something last night that Ive been waiting for forever, and finally' someone pointed out. <br></br><br><i>\"If Hillary lead in Pledged Delegates,SD's, Pop. Vote, States won, Money Raised etc. somehow I doubt the MSM would be giving Barack the same pass Hillary is getting.\"</i></br><br></br><br>Why is this not the narrative that not only democrats, but the MSM as a whole not discussing? This is more then a legitamate arguement to have. There actually people out there (even in Barack's camp) who who still say  \"never count a Clinton out.\" This is a tired statement the MSM throws out there. </br><br>She's done, and I dont care if she wants to go by Hillary, Hillary Rodham, or HRC, the bottom line is she cant win, and most everyone knows it.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "2042081350805262dea9b76f7cd72640", "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}, "1964532": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "nquest, the reverend has the right to say and do whatever he pleases. the assumption would be that he would support obama. so as with samantha powers, when a supposed surrogate starts screwing up the campaign message, it is a problem. yes we agree that hillary is a monster and that america is a global terrorist, but that does not mean it is a good idea to state those things in the campaign.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:54:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab03b08e2f2082ad84cf39c973e5bebb", "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}, "1964533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "to be-serious<br></br><br>I'm so angry with the party leaders for letting Hillary get away with this constant changing of the goal posts.    Although, I did hear Donna Brazile say that if Obama reaches the 2025 number, he will be the nominee because those are the rules.    </br><br></br><br>Just don't know anymore....I'm totally disgusted with the Democractic party.   As I said before, if Obama doesn't get this nomination my interest in politics is done.  My enthusiasm for a candidate has never been this high and at 58 yrs, I doubt I will witness this again in my lifetime.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "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}, "1964534": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, in every state that has a portion of Appalachia in it (except VA and NC -- offset by larger numbers of other demographics that bode well for Obama) has not gone very well for Obama.  And WV is wholly in Appalachia.  So we know it's not a \"white people problem,\" it's an Appalachia problem.  Because white people in WV are different from white people in Oregon.  But Hillary and her peeps are framing it as a \"white people\" problem and continously repeating that BLACKS are voting for Obama and BLACKS are turning out in huge numbers and BLACKS are the reason that Obama is going over.  And they are hoping the \"typical\" white person will vote their racial interests and stop voting for Obama.<br></br><br>Basically Hillary is shanking Obama but framing white people.  </br><br></br><br></br><br>Hillary may want to jump on the Republican bandwagon but she might have to fight Lieberman on that one (lol).  That's why Obama's VP choice will be interesting, as the Dems will unveil their VP before the Republicans.  If Obama chooses a white man, John McCain can/will choose a white woman (here's where Hillary may come in -- whether Hillary is the choice or not) to pick up all the disgruntled white women supporting Hillary.  But if Obama chooses a white woman, McCain may also choose a white woman  (again, here comes Hillary --- her supporters will want a white woman at the top of the ticket, not holding up a black man's coattails) --- they still go over to McCain).</br><br></br><br>These are interesting times but there's no doubt that Hillary Clinton will affect the outcome of the race, whether she's on the ticket or not.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_09:57:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1964535": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Notice how when a black person gets something he's stolen it, when a white person gets something- she's earned it?<br></br><br>They started running for the Presidency at the same time, had to start from scratch, and even though Hillary had a brand where Obama had nothing... he's stealing.</br><br></br><br>The Clintons spew this codified racist language and leverage it to whites- those rural self segregating whites. </br><br></br><br>Now she is trying to CHANGE THE RULES. I hope the rules committee upholds the rules all of the candidates signed off of. But the truth is the Clintons have been making the ignorant believe this is an election by the popular vote.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_10:01:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c4455626754e1b9bc3be232b1024136", "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}, "1964536": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>I'm not sure if it's a show-stopper for him, especially if he's going to continue to write them off. But it is a cause for concern.</i><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>Only among those who are wishing for it to be a cause for concern.</br><br></br><br>Those of us who have eyes know that <b>Barack Obama has done very well among white working class voters outside of central Appalachia.</b></br><br></br><br>See: North Dakota, Nevada, Washington, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maine, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, Alaska, Virginia, and Vermont.</br><br></br><br>He hasn't written \"them\" off. Sorry to intrude with facts, but sometimes, I just can't help myself.</br><br></br><br>Hillary Rodham Nixon is connected to Abramoff and sweatshops. She's got serious problems. But if she runs with McCain, no one will fully vet her on this issue.</br><br></br><br>Republicans: the party of cover-ups and torture.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_10:03:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1964537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "to andyfrombrooklyn;<br></br><br>re Oregon....its 90% white with a household median income of approx. 42,500 a year and 1.9% black.   85% have less than a 4yr college education.  </br><br></br><br>Obama is leading in the polls by approx 12 pts. according to realclearpolitics.</br><br></br><br>Wisconsin's demographics are fairly close to Oregon's.  </br><br></br><br>I don't understand why the Obama campaign doesn't keep making these points to the media.   Maybe they are and the media chooses not to mention this in their constant spinning.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_10:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "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}, "1964538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee.<br></br><br>We need to relax.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_10:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1964539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Check this out:<br></br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1C4gG6rYg8\" rel=\"nofollow\">Karl Rove Blames Obama's WV loss on the Klan</a></br><br></br><br>Sort of. If anyone else had said this, there would be blood.</br><br></br><br><i>I love West Virginia. I think it is a neat state with a lot of really neat people. So, I don't want to say this in a disparaging way. But, remember, you did have a lot of Klan activity. Senator Byrd, when he was a young man was active in the Klu Klux Klan. It was a way up in the politics of the state. So, there is a little bit of the old South deep in the hearts, you know, of the hills and hollows of West Virginia.</i></br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_10:15:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1964540": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Craig, I pray you are right....but, as I keep hearing its not over yet!<br></br><br>Anyway, saw this at the Boston Globe.....something to keep in mind.</br><br></br><br></br><br>\"Finance law may keep Clinton in</br><br>Email|Print|Single Page| Text size \u2013 + May 13, 2008 </br><br>Hillary Clinton may have a financial incentive to remain in the presidential race for a while. And she has Senator John McCain to thank for it.</br><br></br><br></br><br>Campaign Notebook Finance law may keep Clinton in </br><br></br><br>Clinton has loaned her struggling campaign $11 million in recent months. A little-known provision of a 2002 campaign-finance law cosponsored by McCain prevents candidates who drop out of the race from raising money after the nominating conventions to repay themselves for personal loans.</br><br></br><br>If Clinton fails to come up with the funds by the Democratic convention in August and she fails to gain the nomination, she will be out the $11 million. If she quits before then, she may find it hard to get people to keep giving cash so she can retire her debt.</br><br></br><br>That may ratchet up pressure on Clinton to cut a deal with rival Barack Obama, who is keeping the door open to possibly helping pay her debt, which also includes more than $10 million in unpaid bills to vendors and consultants.</br><br></br><br>\"Helping to pay off the debt would certainly be a clear signal of Obama's desire to bring the two candidates together,\" said Anthony Corrado, professor at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.\"</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_10:17:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e892379e7d442c8970d7cad6f54d5b8", "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}, "1964541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If its not over, then why is it, on the <a href=\"http://rnc.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">RNC's</a> homepage, they have absoloutely 0 attacks against Hillary? Clearly the RNC believes the Democrats have there nominiee.<br></br><br>On the very first page they go at Barack. Ive checked it up and down, and at no point do they mention Hillary.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_10:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "2042081350805262dea9b76f7cd72640", "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}, "1964542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "smoothie, it's over. And the RNC hasn't attacked Hillary all primary season. <br></br><br>It will welcome her into the fold come September.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_10:38:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "9bf0971c139c9dc33659e8ed441e4f5e", "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}, "1964543": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HC's people want to reward white folks for being racist.  Her bragging about getting the vote of the white racist voting bloc is truly absurd.  And disturbing.  <br></br><br>Here is the bottom line for me.  I've lived most of my life under Republican presidents.  And yeah, things have been rough for black people during most of that time.  Still, most of us have survived and many, many of us have thrived.  </br><br></br><br>Sooo, no, I will not be scared by predictions about McCain and 4 more years of GWB.  My world goes on no matter who is in the Whiet House.  But there ain't a snowball's chance in heck that I will vote for the the white racists preferred candidate.</br>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-14_10:42:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "d28d8584af9dc8c72d98e7d5c0dafe3d", "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}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "3964570", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": 5497677901368689705}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "wednesday_open_thread_speak_your_mind_14", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 92, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 3964570, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "bd6a8bc56f8eb204984f34b6fefe228d", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





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



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=jackandjillpolitics' +
		'&t=wednesday_open_thread_speak_your_mind_14' +
		'&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_speak_your_mind_14/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_speak_your_mind_14'
			+ '&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_speak_your_mind_14/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">92</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/wednesday_open_thread_speak_your_mind_14/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_speak_your_mind_14/">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:3964570" 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_speak_your_mind_14/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:3964570" 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:3964570" 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_speak_your_mind_14',
			// 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_speak_your_mind_14/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_speak_your_mind_14'
			+ '&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_speak_your_mind_14'
			+ '&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_speak_your_mind_14'
				+ '&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/3964570/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-1964507">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964507" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964507" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964507">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964507" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964507" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10315.html" rel="nofollow">Obama: Don\'t fund independent groups</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964508">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964508" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964508" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964508">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964508" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964508" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/7641.html" rel="nofollow">Who Might Be In An Obama Cabinet?</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964509">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964509" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964509" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964509">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964509" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964509" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/1836.html" rel="nofollow">The Legend of Barack Obama</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964510">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964510" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964510" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964510">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964510" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964510" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama needs to make a big Constitution Speech. He needs to tell America that The Imperial Presidency is over. That the next President will respect The Constitution and the rule of law, and this is very important, that the Vice-President, in his Administration, will follow The Constitution. <br></br><br>He needs to make it very clear that he has no intentions of having a Cheney as VP, talking impeachable BS about not being part of the Executive Branch. I believe he needs to link it to his very expansive and impressive policy papers on transparency in government.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964511">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964511" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964511" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964511">B-Serious</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964511" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964511" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s gonna be interesting to see the media narrative for the next couple of days.<br></br><br>So far, it doesn\'t look like they\'re taking the bait.  No one\'s questioning whether or not Obama will win the Democratic nomination.</br><br></br><br>But the right wing is using this as Exhibit A as to why they think Obama can\'t win the general.  Gretta from Fox News was all, "this is a bright neon sign" screaming Obama can\'t win.  Disgusting.  </br><br></br><br>Plus I\'m starting to notice that some "democratic" pundits are gonna give a half-a*sed defense of Obama for the general election.</br></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964512">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964512" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964512" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964512">B-Serious</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964512" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964512" class="dsq-comment-message">And what\'s with this 2209 crap?<br></br><br>Correct me if I\'m wrong, but Clinton\'s been arguing MI/FL for 3 months.  Why is she just coming up with that 2209 mark now?</br><br></br><br>Why is the party even considering this?  Why is the media even giving this air-time.  WHY are people letting her move the goal-posts like this?</br><br></br><br>Obama needs to squash this right now.  </br><br></br><br>Again, Rachel Maddow was spot-on when she said Obama fails to explain the damage that this prolonged race is doing to the Party.  Of course, Hillary thinks it\'s good for the party. . . she\'s not gonna be the nominee.  She doesn\'t have to campaign in the Fall.  </br><br></br><br>I am convinced that she is staying in to weaken Obama for the general and poison the well of voters.  She\'s giving her members permission to vote against their interests and party.  And for what?  What did Obama do to deserve the "I won\'t vote for him under any circumstances" bs?  </br><br></br><br>Lanny Davis was spreading that meme all night.  Larry King asked him 2 or 3 times why.  Why do some people have such anger towards Obama?  He never answered the question.</br><br></br><br>It\'s one thing to say you don\'t like someone or he doesn\'t "share your values."  It\'s another thing entirely for DEMOCRATS to openly say they\'ll NEVER vote for another Democrat --- especially when Obama\'s treated Hillary with kid gloves this entire process.</br><br></br><br>I wouldn\'t vote for Hillary if you paid me.  But at least I have reasons.  It\'s not pure emotion.  I can point to policy stances, campaign tactics and divisive comments that shaped my opinion of Hillary.  I\'ve yet to hear a logical reasoned argument as to why some Hillary supporters won\'t vote for Obama.  It always comes back to the same thing:  he didn\'t wait his turn.  Sorry, but that\'s not good enough.</br><br></br><br>Someone from Clinton\'s camp actually told the media that it was "Hillary first, party second."  And no one called her on this.  Are you kidding me?</br><br></br><br>Lanny Davis said that Clinton won\'t concede even if/when Obama hits 2025.  WTF?</br><br></br><br>And let\'s stop this "she\'s a fighter" bs.  No, she\'s delusional.  </br><br></br><br>Listen, I could challenge Lebron James to a game of one-on-one.  I could lose 10-0.  I could turn around and say best two out of three; best three out of five.  I could do this for the rest of my life.  I\'m not "fighting" . . . I\'m just wasting his time.  </br><br></br><br>Hillary Clinton is a waste of time!  Every day she stays in is a day wasted on her ego-trip.  Every day she stays in is a day she distracts the party from beating McCain.  Every dollar spent to campaign against her is a dollar that could have been spent on McCain.  Enough already!</br><br></br><br>She has NO mathematical path to the nomination.  Her camp has no shame in telling the press that she\'s only staying in because she hopes something bad happens to a fellow Democrat so she can steal the nomination.</br><br></br><br>This is the cost of "give her space."  Obama gave her space and she used that "space" to move the goal posts once again and push this "2209" spin.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964513">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964513" class="dsq-comment-message">Is it just me, or is the MSM blaming Obama because WV didn\'t vote him? Sure, BO could\'ve campaigned so as not to appear to poo-poo the state, but look at the REASON why WV aren\'t voting for him: RACE -- an issue which Hillary has been pushing all along! Why hasn\'t the MSM taken WV to task for racism, and why haven\'t they taken Clinton to task for race-baiting?? <br></br><br><b>B-Serious:</b> I also saw Suzanne Malveux say that HRC\'s supporters say it\'s "Hillary first, the party second". I was floored, not because her supporters said this (because anyone with an ounce of common sense could figure that out), but because the CNN pundits SAID NOTHING! NOTHING! They just sat there and said not one word. SMH</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964514">icebergslim</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964514" class="dsq-comment-message">morning all.  time to step it up in blogger land and blunt the "unity ticket" crap.  And here is <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/14/72245/8789/872/514757" rel="nofollow">why</a>.<br></br><br>icebergslim</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964515">Adam</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964515" class="dsq-comment-message">WV changed nothing.  Everything that happened last night and this morning is utterly predictable to us so we know the Obama campaign saw it coming.<br></br><br>As for the reasons that Sen. Clinton and her team keep saying "we are fighting on", it\'s because of 1 of 2 reasons:</br><br></br><br>1.  They have convinced themselves that somehow they can win this thing or . . . the more likely choice</br><br></br><br>2.  They need to keep raising money.</br><br></br><br>Sen. Clinton can\'t run the "I\'m broke, help me out" campaign so she has to keep pushing the idea that she has a chance of winning.</br><br></br><br>She doesn\'t.</br><br></br><br>And the biggest indication of that is where the money and the SD\'s are going.</br><br></br><br>And I really don\'t think what Sen. Clinton is doing is going to divide the party.  Once people hear that Sen. McCain\'s plans are I think they will be well motivated to defeat him.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964516">inkognegro</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964516" class="dsq-comment-message">Having Chris Matthews say that Hillary was "almost the Al Sharpton of White people" ALMOST made last night a net gain.<br></br><br>It\'s not even that I agree or that it makes sense...but damn if that aint amusing to me.</br><br></br><br>http://youtube.com/watch?v=HchanK0N3Mg</br><br></br><br>Or maybe im delirious.</br><br></br><br>oh and in honor of Dana Milbank</br><br></br><br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Lq771TVm4</br><br></br><br>C ustomer: "Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I\'m looking at one right now."</br><br></br><br>Pet-shop owner: "No, no he\'s not dead, he\'s -- he\'s resting! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian blue, isn\'t it, aye? Beautiful plumage!"</br><br></br><br>-- From "Monty Python\'s Flying Circus"</br><br></br><br>11:45 a.m., Melrose Hotel, Foggy Bottom: It\'s Day 7 of the Clinton Campaign Death Watch -- a full week since the official arbiter of the Democratic primary, Tim Russert, declared the campaign over and Barack Obama the nominee. Hillary Clinton\'s advisers continue to insist that the candidate\'s prospects are very much alive, but the press isn\'t buying it. Exhibit A: There are two press buses waiting at the hotel here for Clinton\'s trip to her victory rally in West Virginia, but the entire press contingent doesn\'t quite fill one. It isn\'t until the entourage arrives at Dulles Airport that Clinton aides learn that the second bus is still idling, empty, at the hotel.</br><br></br><br>If there is importance in the results of the primary in West Virginia, the press corps isn\'t letting on. During the security sweep at Dulles, some play Hacky Sack with a cigarette carton. Awaiting the candidate on the tarmac, two guys from CNN toss a football. Aboard the plane, one member of the press corps entertains his colleagues by flopping down the aisle on his belly, like a fish. </br><br></br><br>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302862.html</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964517">Ronnie B</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964517" class="dsq-comment-message">@ sepia<br></br><br><i>Is it just me, or is the MSM blaming Obama because WV didn\'t vote him? Sure, BO could\'ve campaigned so as not to appear to poo-poo the state, but look at the REASON why WV aren\'t voting for him: RACE -- an issue which Hillary has been pushing all along! Why hasn\'t the MSM taken WV to task for racism, and why haven\'t they taken Clinton to task for race-baiting??</i></br><br></br><br>It\'t not just you, sepia.  The MSM is subtely attempting to "blame" Barack for not getting the white-bigot vote.  </br><br></br><br>You have to understand; most of these people are Hillary-crats, and are not only seeing their hero go down in flames, but their careers too.  They\'ve known that they could occupy the seats of power so long as political leaders shared the same faces, and came from the same places.  </br><br></br><br>With Barack as president--even as Democratic nominee--there\'s going to be a great deal of resentment by many whites in the MSM. </br><br></br><br>Right now, I see their "blaming" Barack for not attracting more white-bigot-voters as mockery.  They\'re saying "well well Mr. Walk-on-Water, you\'re not as popular as you think".</br><br></br><br>As Barack progresses, we should look for more parting shots like these.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964518">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964518" class="dsq-comment-message">the consensus is in. w.va. did not change anything.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964519">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964519" class="dsq-comment-message">the consensus is in. w.va. did not change anything.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964520">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964520" class="dsq-comment-message">the popular vote metric is bullshit because of the fact that so many states do caucuses. if they want to use it, they have to revote minnesota. colorado, washington, iowa, and others. obama might not win by the percentages the caucus provided but his popular vote margin WOULD increase. so choose your poison hillbots. the party has chosen delegates and that IS the metric.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964521">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964521" class="dsq-comment-message">Hillary is going to stay in the race until the convention, and I think everyone needs to realize and accept that.  <br></br><br>She\'s not staying in the race to get the 08 nomination: she knows she\'s not going to get it.  And it has nothing to do with the black vote, it\'s that Democrats as a whole have a better chance of picking up seats with Obama at the top of the ticket whether he wins or not.</br><br></br><br>She\'s not staying in the race to raise more money: She\'s $20 mil in the hole and each day she stays in the race she\'s spending more money.  I think she\'ll end up having to eat that $12 mil she loaned herself.</br><br></br><br>She\'s not staying in to prepare for \'12: if she is seen as the reason a black man with a good chance of becoming president didn\'t, I don\'t know that she\'ll have a whole lot of support.  She may think people will forget by then, but I don\'t think so.</br><br></br><br>She\'s staying in the race because she can and it\'s personal to her and her supporters. She\'s on the "Get Back Tour \'08" and she\'s staying in the race to, as the poster above said, poison the well.  Make Obama to appear to be an illegitimate candidate (hence the 2209 number) who "stole" the nomination from a qualified nominee because of affirmative action (hence Ferraro\'s comments).   But she can\'t be seen as the direct cause of his loss.  That\'s why she\'s pinning it on "hard working white voters".  If Obama loses, it\'s not Hillary\'s fault...it\'s just that America wasn\'t ready for a black president and the Democrats ran a very flawed candidate just to score affirmative action points.</br><br></br><br>Also, some people think she\'s trying to worm her way on the ticket.  She\'s not.  She\'s purposely acting like an asshole so he won\'t ask her to be on the ticket.  Therefore when her voters trot off to John McCain, Obama will catch the blame.</br><br></br><br></br><br>She\'s not doing this to get on the ticket.  She\'s doing all this to destroy Obama.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964522">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964522" class="dsq-comment-message">it is not about white working class people...it is about appalachia. see the hillary hot spot maps. w.va. and ky. are dead center....and yes it is racism in appalachia and it is disgusting and time for them to grow up.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964523">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964523" class="dsq-comment-message">low income whites in oregon will go for obama. low income whites voted for obama in wisconsin. no exit polls in caucus states like minnesota, colorado, and washington. guess the whites in the north west see something they don\'t in appalachia.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964524">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964524" class="dsq-comment-message">a difference between unanimous support by blacks for obama and appalachian whites for clinton is that blacks have been voting for white presidents since they were aloud to vote. including bill clinton. appalachians have never voted for a black president. it is time for appalachians to get on board the train to the 21st century.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964525">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964525" class="dsq-comment-message">Hillary Rodham Nixon is running for a spot on John McCain\'s ticket.<br></br><br>I\'ve been saying this for months.</br><br></br><br>She will go all the say to Denver, forced a brokered convention, lose, and give the Dem. party a big old fuck you by hitching onto her friend McCain\'s ticket.</br><br></br><br>Republicans will welcome her because they now know she\'s one of them.</br><br></br><br>It\'s the only way McCain has a chance and it\'s the only way Hillary Rodham Nixon can get back to the White House.</br><br></br><br>That\'s why the "Hillary first, party second" chants are getting play.</br><br></br><br>It\'s all part of the script the Nixons have been writing since February 19 when this race was over. When they put forth their Rethug tactics in full force.</br><br></br><br>She\'s not a fighter, she\'s a soul-less cheat. And she will do anything to get into the White House.</br><br></br><br>After all, her husband has made too many promises to too many international leaders and corporations to go gently.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964526">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964526" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>What did Obama do to deserve the "I won\'t vote for him under any circumstances" bs? </i><br></br><br>The same reason certain Obama supporters have issues with Rev. Wright.  It\'s the "he didn\'t have to" syndrome.  For them, it\'s he (Obama) didn\'t have to run so well this year which was supposed to be all about Hillary.  </br><br></br><br></br><br><i>It always comes back to the same thing: he didn\'t wait his turn.</i></br><br></br><br>Yep!  And that\'s the same kind of "not good enough", emotion-laden response people have given regarding Rev. Wright NPC appearance.  Obama (along with a number of his supporters) echoed on the media\'s line.  Nobody called Obama on his inaccuracies and inconsistencies...</br><br></br><br>I say that because I have no use for naked partisanship no matter who the candidate is.  To be clear,  the basic nature of the criticism against Rev. Wright was "he could have waited."</br><br></br><br>So I find it rather ironic, hypocritical actually, for anyone to rightly criticize the emotional nature of the attitudes of Democratic voters who have issues with Obama while clinging (Obama pun intended) to emotion-based, media spun (and mimicked) attitudes against Rev. Wright without critically examining the problematic Obama narrative in both of the unparalleled speech/press conference events Obama devoted... NOT THE THE RACE-BAITING the Clintons perpetrated... NOT to anything related to "bitter-gate" or dust-ups about Obama\'s comments about his grandmother being a "typical white" person... NOT Geraldine Ferraro\'s comments...</br><br></br><br>The hypocrisy runs deep because few people ever ventured to say "Obama didn\'t have to [hold a press conference/speech to berate another "Black man" or demean another "Black man\'s" point-of-view, etc., subtly or forcefully]."</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964527">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964527" class="dsq-comment-message">I think it\'s interesting that Obama really didn\'t even bother to campaign in WV since his core constituency wasn\'t there. <br></br><br>OH/PA/WV share the same type of demographic-disaffected workers from industries in decline-and Obama can\'t seem to win among them.</br><br></br><br>I\'m not sure if it\'s a show-stopper for him, especially if he\'s going to continue to write them off. But it is a cause for concern.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964528">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964528" class="dsq-comment-message">maureen dowd has another irritating opinion today in which she concludes that obama needs to prevent the appalachian rejection of his candidacy become set in stone. yeah it is obama\'s fault that appalachia is holding on to it\'s centuries old prejudices. he shouldn\'t have allowed that to happen...bad obama.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964529">Nquest</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964529" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Hillary Rodham Nixon is running for a spot on John McCain\'s ticket.</b><br></br><br>McCain supposedly congratulated HRC on her victory.  I may have missed it but one of the news channels mentioned it and seemed like they were going to entertain discussion on the McCain-Clinton relationship (McCain apparently hasn\'t congratulated Obama).</br><br></br><br>Somebody did make a point to note how Clinton said she and her Republican party-mate, John McCain, were ready to be president, etc. while Obama was not.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964530">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964530" class="dsq-comment-message">d. you need to read my posts</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964531">smoothie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964531" class="dsq-comment-message">K.Olbermann said something last night that Ive been waiting for forever, and finally\' someone pointed out. <br></br><br><i>"If Hillary lead in Pledged Delegates,SD\'s, Pop. Vote, States won, Money Raised etc. somehow I doubt the MSM would be giving Barack the same pass Hillary is getting."</i></br><br></br><br>Why is this not the narrative that not only democrats, but the MSM as a whole not discussing? This is more then a legitamate arguement to have. There actually people out there (even in Barack\'s camp) who who still say  "never count a Clinton out." This is a tired statement the MSM throws out there. </br><br>She\'s done, and I dont care if she wants to go by Hillary, Hillary Rodham, or HRC, the bottom line is she cant win, and most everyone knows it.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964532">andyfrombrooklyn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964532" class="dsq-comment-message">nquest, the reverend has the right to say and do whatever he pleases. the assumption would be that he would support obama. so as with samantha powers, when a supposed surrogate starts screwing up the campaign message, it is a problem. yes we agree that hillary is a monster and that america is a global terrorist, but that does not mean it is a good idea to state those things in the campaign.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964533">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964533" class="dsq-comment-message">to be-serious<br></br><br>I\'m so angry with the party leaders for letting Hillary get away with this constant changing of the goal posts.    Although, I did hear Donna Brazile say that if Obama reaches the 2025 number, he will be the nominee because those are the rules.    </br><br></br><br>Just don\'t know anymore....I\'m totally disgusted with the Democractic party.   As I said before, if Obama doesn\'t get this nomination my interest in politics is done.  My enthusiasm for a candidate has never been this high and at 58 yrs, I doubt I will witness this again in my lifetime.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964534" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964534">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964534" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, in every state that has a portion of Appalachia in it (except VA and NC -- offset by larger numbers of other demographics that bode well for Obama) has not gone very well for Obama.  And WV is wholly in Appalachia.  So we know it\'s not a "white people problem," it\'s an Appalachia problem.  Because white people in WV are different from white people in Oregon.  But Hillary and her peeps are framing it as a "white people" problem and continously repeating that BLACKS are voting for Obama and BLACKS are turning out in huge numbers and BLACKS are the reason that Obama is going over.  And they are hoping the "typical" white person will vote their racial interests and stop voting for Obama.<br></br><br>Basically Hillary is shanking Obama but framing white people.  </br><br></br><br></br><br>Hillary may want to jump on the Republican bandwagon but she might have to fight Lieberman on that one (lol).  That\'s why Obama\'s VP choice will be interesting, as the Dems will unveil their VP before the Republicans.  If Obama chooses a white man, John McCain can/will choose a white woman (here\'s where Hillary may come in -- whether Hillary is the choice or not) to pick up all the disgruntled white women supporting Hillary.  But if Obama chooses a white woman, McCain may also choose a white woman  (again, here comes Hillary --- her supporters will want a white woman at the top of the ticket, not holding up a black man\'s coattails) --- they still go over to McCain).</br><br></br><br>These are interesting times but there\'s no doubt that Hillary Clinton will affect the outcome of the race, whether she\'s on the ticket or not.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964535" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964535">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964535" class="dsq-comment-message">Notice how when a black person gets something he\'s stolen it, when a white person gets something- she\'s earned it?<br></br><br>They started running for the Presidency at the same time, had to start from scratch, and even though Hillary had a brand where Obama had nothing... he\'s stealing.</br><br></br><br>The Clintons spew this codified racist language and leverage it to whites- those rural self segregating whites. </br><br></br><br>Now she is trying to CHANGE THE RULES. I hope the rules committee upholds the rules all of the candidates signed off of. But the truth is the Clintons have been making the ignorant believe this is an election by the popular vote.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964536" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964536">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964536" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I\'m not sure if it\'s a show-stopper for him, especially if he\'s going to continue to write them off. But it is a cause for concern.</i><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>Only among those who are wishing for it to be a cause for concern.</br><br></br><br>Those of us who have eyes know that <b>Barack Obama has done very well among white working class voters outside of central Appalachia.</b></br><br></br><br>See: North Dakota, Nevada, Washington, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maine, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, Alaska, Virginia, and Vermont.</br><br></br><br>He hasn\'t written "them" off. Sorry to intrude with facts, but sometimes, I just can\'t help myself.</br><br></br><br>Hillary Rodham Nixon is connected to Abramoff and sweatshops. She\'s got serious problems. But if she runs with McCain, no one will fully vet her on this issue.</br><br></br><br>Republicans: the party of cover-ups and torture.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964537" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964537">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964537" class="dsq-comment-message">to andyfrombrooklyn;<br></br><br>re Oregon....its 90% white with a household median income of approx. 42,500 a year and 1.9% black.   85% have less than a 4yr college education.  </br><br></br><br>Obama is leading in the polls by approx 12 pts. according to realclearpolitics.</br><br></br><br>Wisconsin\'s demographics are fairly close to Oregon\'s.  </br><br></br><br>I don\'t understand why the Obama campaign doesn\'t keep making these points to the media.   Maybe they are and the media chooses not to mention this in their constant spinning.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964538" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964538">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964538" class="dsq-comment-message">Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee.<br></br><br>We need to relax.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964539" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964539">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964539" class="dsq-comment-message">Check this out:<br></br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1C4gG6rYg8" rel="nofollow">Karl Rove Blames Obama\'s WV loss on the Klan</a></br><br></br><br>Sort of. If anyone else had said this, there would be blood.</br><br></br><br><i>I love West Virginia. I think it is a neat state with a lot of really neat people. So, I don\'t want to say this in a disparaging way. But, remember, you did have a lot of Klan activity. Senator Byrd, when he was a young man was active in the Klu Klux Klan. It was a way up in the politics of the state. So, there is a little bit of the old South deep in the hearts, you know, of the hills and hollows of West Virginia.</i></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964540">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964540" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig, I pray you are right....but, as I keep hearing its not over yet!<br></br><br>Anyway, saw this at the Boston Globe.....something to keep in mind.</br><br></br><br></br><br>"Finance law may keep Clinton in</br><br>Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + May 13, 2008 </br><br>Hillary Clinton may have a financial incentive to remain in the presidential race for a while. And she has Senator John McCain to thank for it.</br><br></br><br></br><br>Campaign Notebook Finance law may keep Clinton in </br><br></br><br>Clinton has loaned her struggling campaign $11 million in recent months. A little-known provision of a 2002 campaign-finance law cosponsored by McCain prevents candidates who drop out of the race from raising money after the nominating conventions to repay themselves for personal loans.</br><br></br><br>If Clinton fails to come up with the funds by the Democratic convention in August and she fails to gain the nomination, she will be out the $11 million. If she quits before then, she may find it hard to get people to keep giving cash so she can retire her debt.</br><br></br><br>That may ratchet up pressure on Clinton to cut a deal with rival Barack Obama, who is keeping the door open to possibly helping pay her debt, which also includes more than $10 million in unpaid bills to vendors and consultants.</br><br></br><br>"Helping to pay off the debt would certainly be a clear signal of Obama\'s desire to bring the two candidates together," said Anthony Corrado, professor at Colby College in Waterville, Maine."</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964541" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964541">smoothie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964541" class="dsq-comment-message">If its not over, then why is it, on the <a href="http://rnc.org/" rel="nofollow">RNC\'s</a> homepage, they have absoloutely 0 attacks against Hillary? Clearly the RNC believes the Democrats have there nominiee.<br></br><br>On the very first page they go at Barack. Ive checked it up and down, and at no point do they mention Hillary.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964542" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964542">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964542" class="dsq-comment-message">smoothie, it\'s over. And the RNC hasn\'t attacked Hillary all primary season. <br></br><br>It will welcome her into the fold come September.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964543">BlackStocking</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964543" class="dsq-comment-message">HC\'s people want to reward white folks for being racist.  Her bragging about getting the vote of the white racist voting bloc is truly absurd.  And disturbing.  <br></br><br>Here is the bottom line for me.  I\'ve lived most of my life under Republican presidents.  And yeah, things have been rough for black people during most of that time.  Still, most of us have survived and many, many of us have thrived.  </br><br></br><br>Sooo, no, I will not be scared by predictions about McCain and 4 more years of GWB.  My world goes on no matter who is in the Whiet House.  But there ain\'t a snowball\'s chance in heck that I will vote for the the white racists preferred candidate.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964544">Angela</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964544" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m with blackstocking....I will never cast a vote for Clinton.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964545">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964545" class="dsq-comment-message">@ Craig<br>"Hillary Rodham Nixon is connected to Abramoff and sweatshops. She\'s got serious problems. But if she runs with McCain, no one will fully vet her on this issue."</br><br></br><br>Can you explain the Hillary-Abramoff connection, as well as the sweat shops?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964546">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964546" class="dsq-comment-message">From what I understand on the Daily Kos piece, Abramoff helped create some loophole with the Mariana Islands that allowed sweatshops to flourish.  The Tan Family of Hong Kong exploited the loophole and they have a bunch of sweat shops.  They gave a bunch of money to Hillary.  I guess somebody could explain it better than I can.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964547">s</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964547" class="dsq-comment-message">Calling fellow Dems racist for not voting for Obama will backfire on Obama in the general election. <br></br><br>People do not take kindly to being called racist and are not likely to come back and "do the right thing" and vote for Obama after the self-declared, morally superior Obama supporters have insulted them in a most egregious and personal way.</br><br></br><br>Obama will be the nominee, so how does it benefit him to so split the party? 64% of Dems want Hillary to stay in the race. Does Obama really think he doesn\'t need white voters?</br><br></br><br>General election moderates and independents will recoil at the accusation that those who do not support Obama are racist.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964548">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964548" class="dsq-comment-message">Calling fellow Dems racist for not voting for Obama will backfire on Obama in the general election. <br>-------------</br><br></br><br></br><br></br><br>Hillary is the one calling white voters "racist," not Obama.  Hillary is the one threatening that white voters won\'t vote for Obama because he\'s black.  Obama\'s not the one making that argument.  Hillary\'s camp is the one making the argument that only blacks and eggheads are voting for Obama, when everyone knows that\'s simply not true.  So Hillary is the one who needs to be taken to task, not Obama, because the Clinton camp has been the ones, from the very beginning, injecting race into the discussion.  Hillary is trying to poison the well and the designated scapegoat will be "white voters."  You don\'t think for a minute after Obama loses that the Clinton surrogates won\'t be on every CNN and MSNBC and FOX blaming white people and their reluctance to vote for a black man as the real reason why he lost?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964549">texas girl in l.a.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964549" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok, again....Obama did campaign in WV. Maybe not as hard as others....but he did.<br></br><br>He ran ads, wrote an op-ed in the paper, appeared in Charleston, WV (their paper also endorsed him).</br><br></br><br>So I would not say he didn\'t bother to campaign there.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964550" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964550">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964550" class="dsq-comment-message">s.,<br></br><br>General election moderates and independents who are not racists won\'t recall because no one is talking about them.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964551" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964551">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964551" class="dsq-comment-message">Only racists get offended when they\'re called out for being racists.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964552" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964552">Admiral Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964552" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964552" class="dsq-comment-message">"Hillary Rodham Nixon is running for a spot on John McCain\'s ticket."<br></br><br>"I\'ve been saying this for months."</br><br></br><br>"She will go all the say to Denver, forced a brokered convention, lose, and give the Dem. party a big old fuck you by hitching onto her friend McCain\'s ticket."</br><br></br><br>"Republicans will welcome her because they now know she\'s one of them."</br><br></br><br>"It\'s the only way McCain has a chance and it\'s the only way Hillary Rodham Nixon can get back to the White House."</br><br></br><br>-Republicans aren\'t THAT stupid</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964553">Admiral Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964553" class="dsq-comment-message">Hillary Clinton\'s pitch to donors and superdelegates:<br></br><br>"HE\'S BLACK, DON\'T YOU UNDERSTAND!"</br><br></br><br>"HE\'S BLAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!"</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964554">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964554" class="dsq-comment-message">I understand that HRC refuses to go away, but does anyone ever have those days when you just have to tune it all out because all you have left is a strong desire to run into her somewhere on the campaign trail and kick her in the shins?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964555" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964555">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964555" class="dsq-comment-message">Of course I won\'t be doing any kicking, I\'ll just take Rikyrah\'s advice and "have a peaceful day!"</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964556" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964556">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964556" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>-Republicans aren\'t THAT stupid</i><br></br><br>::</br><br></br><br>Yes they are. That desperate too.</br><br></br><br>Terrible combination.</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964557" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964557" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964557">Craig Hickman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964557" class="dsq-comment-message">I challenge everybody here to pick up the phone and call a friend somewhere else in the US from where they live and ask their opinion about last night\'s result and come back here an report that any of them said something other than something like, "Of course she won big. It\'s WEST VIRGINIA, silly."<br></br><br>Racists in West VA (and not all white people in WVa. are racist) are proud to be racists.</br><br></br><br>Just ask them.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964558" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964558">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964558" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964558" class="dsq-comment-message">Who is the dude who keeps showing up behind Hillary at every speech wearing the boxing gloves?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964559">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964559" class="dsq-comment-message">anonymous 8:28,<br></br><br>actually, I\'d settle for the capability of using a cast iron skillet unfettered against a large number of her surrogates.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964560">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964560" class="dsq-comment-message">B-Serious and Angela - I was there with you last week.  lolol<br>However, I wouldn\'t worry about what Hillary is saying at this point or what posts she insists on attempting to move.  It will not work.  So her saying Barack has to meet the 2209 number or that FL and MI should be seated at without penalty is irrelevent.  I watched MSNBC last night and the the it was clear that the pundits, Russert etc. mentally threw their hands up.  YOU CAN\'T REACH ANYONE IN HILLARYLAND!.  You just can\'t. No amount of logic will make a difference so what should Barack do? The same thing he is doing now, preparing for the Nov fight with John McCain.  </br><br></br><br>I now think it is fine if Hillary wants to pursue her right to stay in the race.  It doesn\'t make any difference and she is spending her own money.  Barack gained what  . . 4 more super delegates today?  Let Hillary do her thing . . eventually her balloon will start losing air and she will come down to the real world.  As long as she does not go negative against Barack -- she can do this.  More power to her.  </br><br></br><br>We also have to think about the remaining states that REALLY want to vote.  They want to participate in this process.  That too is a plus.  I have been reading a lot lately and folks are truly excited. In short . . . keep your head up. It will be over soon.</br><br></br><br>Blessings.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964561">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964561" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/go-away-you-horrible-human-being.html" rel="nofollow">Go Away You Horrible Human Being</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964562">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964562" class="dsq-comment-message">Excuse my language, but....<br></br><br>What the fuck?</br><br></br><br><a href="http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmU2YThkOWQyMjg4MDZmYTExYWFmYWEyNzI1ZDA5M2Q=" rel="nofollow"> Palestinians in Gaza Are Phonebanking for Barack Obama</a></br><br></br><br>Anyone see a problem with this?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964563">Felicia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964563" class="dsq-comment-message">d.,<br>It\'s their dime.  If they want to phonebank for Obama, what\'s the problem?  Oh--I get it--they\'re Palestinians so they MUST be terrorists.</br><br></br><br>For the record, I trust nothing coming from a Republican rag mag.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964564" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964564">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964564" class="dsq-comment-message">Re the popular vote..<br></br><br>Wolf did scenarios on The Situation Room last week and he showed that even if Florida and Michigan were counted as-is, Barack would still be ahead in every metric.  They had to estimate the popular vote numbers for the caucus states.</br><br></br><br>I\'ll see if I can find it on redlasso.</br><br></br><br>B-serious is right.  The Clinton campaign is stalling for time.  They know the numbers don\'t favour them in ANY scenario.  But they keep stalling for time.  Each time we get to a crossroads, they come out and offer another improbable metric as why they should be allowed to continue.</br><br></br><br>The latest carrot has been the 2209 number.  It sets the groundwork so that when Obama reaches 2025 in a couple weeks, they will be able to say it doesn\'t count, and justify staying in the race until the convention.  Also, Obama\'s been posting a running delegate tally on his page.  The 2209 makes him seem farther away from the finish line and imply there\'s no way for him to reach 2209.</br><br></br><br>Democrats may not realize they\'ve been had until it\'s too late.  They\'ve been lulled into a false sense of security by Hillary\'s constant spinning and the carrots.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964565">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964565" class="dsq-comment-message">Felicia,<br>I\'m not insinuating that the people making the calls are terrorists. </br><br></br><br>But-and this is a hypothetical-if I get a call from one of these people about Obama, and I tell them to kick rocks, what\'s to stop them from calling in a few of their friends to "adjust" my thinking?</br><br></br><br>And the actual report came from Al Jazeera.</br></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964566" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964566">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964566" class="dsq-comment-message">@ d,<br></br><br>...People from all over the world are phonebanking for Obama. Republicans and Hillary supporters also phonebank against him..... they probably say unflattering things.  Instead of putting their names down, they type names like "Operation Chaos" against their list of calls made.</br><br></br><br>So, what does that say about Obama that all these people phonebank for, or against him?</br><br></br><br>You ARE insinuating they\'re terrorists.  Like I said, People from the UK and Europe also phonebank as well as Republicans and Hillary supporters.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964567">Felicia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964567" class="dsq-comment-message">d.,<br></br><br>I watched the al Jazeera video, and I see nothing wrong with what these young men are doing.  </br><br></br><br>If it\'s legal for people to phonebank from other nations--and I\'m hoping the Obama campaign has already checked to make sure it is--what these men are doing is noble.  </br><br></br><br>They say they want peace in the Middle East, and they think Obama can bring it about.  These young men were born into apartheid.  They can never leave Gaza without special permission.  I can\'t imagine being forced to live in an overcrowded land only twice the size of D.C., knowing this is where I must live and die.</br><br></br><br>I hope one day Israelis and Palestinians will be able to live side by side and freely travel between borders.  The <i>National Review</i>, and you by proxy, are doing nothing but fearmongering.</br><br></br><br>A great, eye-opening movie that I would recommend for all JJP posters is <i>Paradise Now</i> (2005).  It depicts life in the West Bank, which is supposed to be slightly better than Gaza, so you can imagine how bad it is for Gazans.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964568">Ms.Martin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964568" class="dsq-comment-message">From the NY Times:<br></br><br>"The Democrat, Travis Childers, a local courthouse official, pulled together a coalition of blacks, who turned out heavily, and old-line “yellow dog” Democrats, to beat his Republican opponent, Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven, a Memphis suburb. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, the vote was 54 percent for Mr. Childers to 46 percent for Mr. Davis."</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964569">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964569" class="dsq-comment-message">Felicia,<br>That\'s fine.</br><br></br><br>Truth,</br><br>I try really hard to limit the "terrorist" designation to people who really deserve it. Hamas does, based on their past actions. I\'m not certain if the designation would be appropriate for every Palestinian; as such, I didn\'t refer to them all as terrorists.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964570">isonprize</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964570" class="dsq-comment-message">There are lots of folks I wish were alive to witness this time in US history.   My parents and an old boyfriend come to mind.  <br></br><br>In that line of thinking, wouldn\'t it be wonderful to hear Ed Bradley\'s commentary on this whole primary season?   Would\'ntcha just love to hear Ed interview Barack?</br><br></br><br>Just reminiscin\'...</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964571">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964571" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://thehill.com/a.b.-stoddard/dignity-or-jihad-2008-05-07.html" rel="nofollow">Dignity or Jihad?</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964572">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964572" class="dsq-comment-message">NARAL endorsed Obama.<br></br><br>Let the \' Judas\' Comments begin from the Hillpatine lackeys.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964573">Michelle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964573" class="dsq-comment-message">Craig wrote: <i>Hillary Rodham Nixon is running for a spot on John McCain\'s ticket.</i><br></br><br>It seems like a good fit for her actions (and her approach to policy) and I have thought about this too. But -- if she does that, then it seems to me that all the Democrats/Obama would have to do is run an intense ad campaign with clips of her promising to work so hard for the Democratic nominee and have some voice over about how she will promise anything but then do the opposite, and how voters can\'t trust what she promises.</br><br></br><br>And in general, seems to me that if she moves over to the Repub side, the "making nice" gloves can come right off. It\'s not Obama at that point it\'s the whole party. Obama can\'t beat on her but the party maybe can. But it won\'t do that as long as she remains in the fold. Once she moves out of it .... I would guess all the withheld stuff will come flooding out.</br><br></br><br>Of course, I could be wrong. Overall I tend to vastly overestimate the outrage at bald-faced lies and betrayals in this culture.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964574">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964574" class="dsq-comment-message">What\'s this about?<br></br><br><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=15082&amp;R=13A8225952" rel="nofollow"> Jeremiah Wright\'s \'Trumpet\'</a></br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964575">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964575" class="dsq-comment-message">I wouldn\'t know.  Rev Wright is not running for the President of the United States and is free to do whatever he sees fit.  That is what makes this country great.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964576">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964576" class="dsq-comment-message">d,<br></br><br>you ask a lot of questions but never answer any.   I want to know what it says about Barack that people in UK, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Republicans, Hillary supporters use his phonebank tool?</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964577">D.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964577" class="dsq-comment-message">Val,<br>I\'m just curious.</br><br></br><br>Truth,</br><br>I don\'t care who\'s doing it. That sort of personal information shouldn\'t be compromised.</br><br></br><br>By <i><b>ANY</b></i> candidate.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964578">Jonzee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964578" class="dsq-comment-message">Is President Bill Clinton channeling former Alabama Governor George Wallace...<br></br><br>I have always wondered, but after <a href="http://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/of-blue-collars-and-rednecks/" rel="nofollow">reading this analysis</a>, it\'s hard to doubt it.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964579">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964579" class="dsq-comment-message">Friends, please help me calm down. I just heard on cnn that Howard Dean is prepared to announce a joint fundraising plan between the Obama and kkklinton campaigns. Then they show her continuing to talk about how she isn\'t going anywhere....Wolf Blitzer is interviewing her and she commented how she (my paraphrase) thinks Obama is too idealistic or doesn\'t know how it the system works. she said you can\'t just go hold hands and hope that things happen. What an insult! I\'m afraid I won\'t be donating to Obama any longer if she is going to get any of the $.I understand that he has to do what he has to do, and I have to do what I have to do. If she ends up as his VP, I\'m truly done. I\'m going to email his website. What a bummer!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964580">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964580" class="dsq-comment-message">teacher,<br></br><br>I think that deal is between the DNC and each campaign.  I believe the funds will be separate...but someone who knows for sure can confirm.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964581">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964581" class="dsq-comment-message">All - NARAL just endorsed Senator Obama for President and the Clinton supporters are pitching a ROYAL fit.  They could use some positive posts right about now.  It is REALLY bad. Get the word out if you can.<br></br><br>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-keenan/why-naral-pro-choice-amer_b_101708.html</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964582">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964582" class="dsq-comment-message">Regarding the Obama Clinton fundrasing thing -- He cannot give Senator Clinton money donated to his campaign. That is the law.  So don\'t worry your money cannot be transferred to her.  The can ask him to ask his supporters to send her donations which is entirely voluntary or he can help her schedule some type of fundraiser on her behalf.  Again -- he can ask his supporters to help her out.  But he is not able to give her any money donated to him.  I will see if I can find that specific rule and will post.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964583">Val</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964583" class="dsq-comment-message">Good read.<br></br><br>1) John Edwards will endorse Barack Obama.</br><br>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/14/john-edwards-endorsing-ob_n_101749.html</br><br></br><br>2) GOP Adviser:  This is \'94 in Reverse.  We\'re Pathetic</br><br>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/14/gop-adviser-this-is-94-in_n_101756.html</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964584">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964584" class="dsq-comment-message">OK. I read more asbout it on Daily Kos Dean\'s press release says:<br> </br><br>"The fund will allow both candidates to raise money for the Party, forming one joint fundraising committee account that will accept money for the nominee’s primary and general election and for the DNC." </br><br></br><br>and I feel better. It\'s "allegedly" for the DNC, which is low on $.</br><br></br><br>Edwards is endorsing Obama! I\'m glad he has the spine to show some leadership. It\'s hard for me to understand that if they are really for the success and progress of the party, why won\'t they show more leadership. I think the floodgates will open after the final contest on June 3rd. KKKlinton insists that Fl & MI be seated just the way they voted. Why don\'t white people consider her to be a cheater? Marion Jones is in jail for cheating, and Barry Bond is being continuously harassed...Why is it ok for KKKlinton to cheat and not be censured by the party?  I\'m not going to be able to donate to them to cheat Black people, even if he is going to win in spite of it. I think I\'m going to email them and let them know.</br><br></br><br>And as far as Obama not wanting us to support 528\'s or whatever the right # is, I understand him and I disagree. They are going to tell scurrilous lies about him. I think there needs to be someone to tell the TRUTH about McCryptkeeper.</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964585">texas girl in l.a.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964585" class="dsq-comment-message">teacher,<br></br><br>I was just about to post that for you. I was just reading it over at dailykos</br></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964586">TruthSeeker</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964586" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, it\'s pretty ugly over on the NARAL board.  I posted a positive comment...It looked so tiny and lonesome LOL</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964587">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964587" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964587" class="dsq-comment-message">Rules posted on Daily Kos:<br></br><br>Joint Fundraising Notice</br><br>General Rule</br><br></br><br>In addition to any notice required under "Disclaimer Notices on Communications" and "Solicitation Notices," participants must include a joint fundraising notice with every solicitation for contributions. The notice must contain the following information:</br><br></br><br>• The names of all participants, regardless of whether they are registered political committees or unregistered organizations;</br><br></br><br>• The allocation formula;</br><br></br><br>• A statement informing contributors that they may designate contributions for a particular participant; and</br><br></br><br>• A statement that the allocation formula may change if any contributor makes a contribution that exceeds the amount he or she may lawfully give to any participant. 102.17(c)(2)(i).</br><br></br><br>Special Situations</br><br></br><br>In two situations, participants must include additional information in the joint fundraising notice:</br><br></br><br>• If a participant is engaging in the joint fundraiser to pay off outstanding debts, the notice must state that the allocation formula may change if the participant receives enough funds to pay its debts. (emphasis mine)</br><br></br><br>• If, under State law, any unregistered participant is permitted to receive contributions prohibited under the Act, the notice must say that such contributions will be given only to participants that may legally accept them. 102.17(c)(2)(ii</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964588">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964588" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964588" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964588">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964588" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964588" class="dsq-comment-message">With Edwards\' endorsement maybe more supers will not only endorse but switch to Obama by week\'s end to nullify any designs Hillary has on seating FL & MI or changing the delegates to 2210.  Even so, she\'ll still take it to the Convention under the pretense that delegates can change their minds.<br></br><br>I am sure she will NEVER drop out.  This is going to the convention and even after that, she will continue to make trouble.  I don\'t know how Dems didn\'t see this coming.</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964589">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964589" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964589" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964589">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964589" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964589" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok I found the guidance re. helping to pay off campaign debts for opponents.  *Obama has not said he would do this btw.  Media spin at this point.<br></br><br>Obama cannot under federal law assume direct responsibility for Clinton\'s debts because that would amount to an illegal contribution, far above contribution limits.</br><br></br><br>There are, however, a number of other alternatives. Obama could, for example, send out a solicitation in Clinton\'s behalf to his own donors and to other donor lists, asking for contributions to be directed to her campaign. He could, in addition, hold a joint fundraiser with the money</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964590">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964590" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964590" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964590">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964590" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964590" class="dsq-comment-message">Truthseeker - last night her campaign manager alluded to the fact that it would probably go to the convention.  So you are right on that.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964591">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964591" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964591" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964591">Honey01</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964591" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964591" class="dsq-comment-message">Anybody watching MSNBC? Pat Buchannan just lost his marbles again. He has been moderately tame the last couple of weeks. They just kinds let him go off on 15 minute tangent (Black people are only voting for Obama because he is Black, West Virginians are not racist, Geraldine Ferarro was right, yada yada). I never thought I would live to see the day where Chris Matthews would be the "voice of reason" just now in a three way conversation between Matthews, Buchanan, and Andrea Mitchell.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964592">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964592" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964592" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964592">Val</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964592" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964592" class="dsq-comment-message">honey01.  Yes I saw that.  I didn\'t know whether to  . . . umm let me let it go.  I agree with you Chris Matthews blew me away.  I didn\'t expect him of all people to be the voice of reason either.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964593">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964593" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964593" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964593">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964593" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964593" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Just saw this on the Hillary blog comment section.  I don\'t thing it was covered by the MSM..they were busy reporting on the Edwards Endorsement!  HA:</b><br></br><br>6:15 p.m. TONIGHT: Members of Congress To Hold Press Conference On Hillary’s Strong Pro-Choice Record</br><br></br><br>Clinton National Campaign Co-Chair Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones and other Members of Congress will hold a press conference at 6:15 p.m. EDT tonight to discuss Hillary Clinton’s strong pro-choice record.</br><br></br><br>Members voicing their support today for Clinton’s advocacy on behalf of a woman’s right to choose include, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Rep. Nita Lowey, Rep. Jane Harman, Rep. Diane Watson, Rep. Diana DeGette, Rep. Doris Matsui, Rep. Laura Richardson, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Louise Slaughter, Rep. Allyson Schwartz, Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Corrine Brown, Rep. Yvette Clarke, Rep. Darlene Hooley, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Rep. Linda Sanchez, Rep. Tammy Baldwin, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, Rep. Hilda Solis, Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Rep. Betty Sutton, Rep. Grace Napolitano and Rep. Shelley Berkley.</br><br></br><br>Wednesday, May 14</br><br></br><br>6:15 p.m. EDT</br><br></br><br>Members of Congress Discuss Hillary’s Strong Pro-Choice Record</br><br></br><br>Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee</br><br>Second Floor Conference Room</br><br>430 South Capitol Street</br><br>Washington, DC</br></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964594" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964594" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964594">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964594" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964594" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/obama-finance" rel="nofollow">The Amazing Money Machine</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964595">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964595" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964595" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964595">Anna</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964595" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964595" class="dsq-comment-message">An ABC survey says that 59% of African-Americans would like to see Hillary as the VP candidate on the Democratic ticket? How can that be?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964596">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964596" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964596" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964596">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964596" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964596" class="dsq-comment-message">..Not buying that.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964597">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964597" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964597" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964597">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964597" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964597" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>On Huffington, I found this dead on comment on how Lanny would respond to the Edwards endorment</b><br></br><br>FogBelter </br><br>Has Lanny Davis chimed in on this endorsement? He would probably say something like ...</br><br></br><br></br><br>--Now everyone knows the respect I have for Senator Obama, but lets be clear here ... just because Senator Edwards stands beside him at a gathering of four or five people and says nice things ... maybe even invokes the word "endorse" itself ... that doesn\'t need to be considered as an official "endorsement" of Senator Obama ... I know ... I know ... there are a lot of passionate Obama supporters who may ... think ... they heard an endorsement, but from where I am sitting here ... and what I observed ... I would be hard pressed to see an endorsement in Senator Edwards drop by in Michigan ... I respect Senator Obama, you know I do, but we are playing semantic games here when we should be focusing on Senator Clinton\'s 41 point victory in West Virginia ... and one more thing ...--</br></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1964598">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1964598" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1964598" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1964598">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1964598" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1964598" class="dsq-comment-message">not buying it either, truthseeker. not in the least.</div>\
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