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I saw Lynn Sweet's \"actual\" list for the first time tonight.  In addition, I remember the wire-tap summaries mentioning Jarrett -- so it is interesting how spectacularly misinformed the press was ( and myself as a result).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:46:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863433, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4872202": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Reid probably thought this was his time to secure his \"power\" separate from the President since he was such a lap dog before. But he's totally mishandled things.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_19:37:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868202, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4869135": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Blksista, I didn't mean to imply that, at all. I just posted the source of this quote:<br><br>\"I do believe that it was black folk like you long, long ago, who sold our ancestors as slaves on African shores to white people like Blago who used and abused us for their benefit.\"<br><br>\"Seems like the seed is still running amok.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_15:31:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4867322, "depth": 8, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863504": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah ....Valerie Jarrett was darling on the list she refused to play to pay Gov. Blago...I'm to tired track that down...So, I'll leave you to your conspiracy. Though, I'm enjoying reading all this stuff about certain Dems this is kind of fun...Did you hear the one about Bobby Rush actually caring about Black people?! You see old Bobby hated Obama so much he did help with Obama in 2004 senate race. He wanted to help so much get a Black senator in office that he endorsed a White man to try and hurt Obama. Oops, that is sort like what he is doing now by helping Master Blago kill off Obama through that troll Burris.  <br><br>  So, good to see good old Bobby Rush still looking out for the Black community.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:47:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863433, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL (i wish too) --- there are going to be lawsuits regardless -- MN already has a bunch of on-going litigation. I think it will stop being in the national news shortly -- at least  until the confirmation hearing of Clinton and Holder.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:46:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863447, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4865048": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is a horrifying story. And I'm sick to death of people deciding who is and who isn't \"electable\" downstate. Jesse has been treated so poorly from the beginning with this thing, it's breathtaking. <br><br>I used to live in Seals' district and I like him. I volunteered for him in 2006, and was sorry to see him get killed this year, but who the hell is Reid to decide from on high (and afar) which AA is and isn't \"electable\" in this state? <br><br>btw- saying Seals should be disqualified because of his wife is BS. Burris, othh, disqualified himself when he accepted the appt from our crooked, and crazy, governor. Seals' problem, I believe, is that he doesn't connect effectively with people. That us unlikely to change just because some old, white men have determined he is a \"palatable\" AA. <br><br>The seat should have gone to Jesse, and if we'd had a governor with any integrity, it would have. Now we have a mess from which no choice will be effective.<br><br>THE OBAMA LIST -- people here keep citing the rumored list, which was printed in the newspaper without the facts and did not include Jesse. Obama's own report, which came out the day before Christmas, said that Rahm DID include Jesse on the list he gave to Harris. It would have been a shock if Jesse hadn't been included.<br><br>I agree with those who say Reid should be forced from the top job, if this story is true. And unfortunately, this story has just increased exponentially the chances of Burris being seated -- a guy who was picked because he was the only one who would take it from the crook.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_06:28:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "0a867ed5ae43dec183488249ab946d23", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863007": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<b>Lay.It.Down. Rikyrah!</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:44:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months 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}, "4863009": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nobody better not ask me why I used Joe Lieberman in a comparative analysis  such as THIS ONE.<br><br>I knew after the dust cleared it was all about race.  PERIOD.  Reid might be a Democrat, but he may very well be a racist one at that.<br><br>He needs to answer why he didn't want JJJ, Emil Jones or Danny Davis in that seat.<br><br>Alright, I might not know enough about Dan Seals - I'm not familiar with Chicago style politics, but I'm still betting my money on the fact that his arm piece isn't a sista, and as Rikyrah has corrected me, he doesn't have a base in Chi-town.<br><br>I also suspect this brotha might be DLC and that's why Reid wouldn't object to his presence in the Senate.  He gets to kill two birds with one stone; he puts a brotha in that seat who might be the Dark Sith undercover.<br><br>But anyone who wants to say this isn't about race; see my posts on December 31st and January 2nd.<br><br>I now rest my case.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:44:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4862930, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4869809": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This could be why Bobby Rush and Rod Blago played the race card at that presser the other day, because Harry Reid & Co. were playing it on them.  And that's probably why Blago chose a black guy to say F*CK U Harry Reid.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_16:06:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868273, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4873991": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "obama had his probs with all communities including ours.  In this poll Jesse has 81% black support.  Obama had to fight to just get us to look at him.  So to me your point is moot because apples and oranges saying applies.  Blacks did not think Obama could win until he won Iowa looks like they think Jesse could win rite now but his name alone will drag him down with the rest of the country. Hey, he could run if he wants but I just think he is not a good candidate for full state election.  Just my opinion.  Can agree to disagree with you on this one. You obviously are not going to change your perspective and I for sure am not going to change mine.  sigh. Mosely Braun did not have Jesse's lugguage either.  Jackson name will not help him Statewide.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_22:13:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "f17a551954c749254380a2faae0ced7a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4873606, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868653": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "3 consecutive weeks of rants about Rick Warren and only one diary, buried in the side bar, about today's report on Reid.  The silence says it all!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:44:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "4fd3ca416b455e03c3fa02c8bc744eb4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868192, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4873264": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nate Silver at <a href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">fivethirtyeight.com</a> has the numbers and he thinks Harry Reid did his job by say J Jackson Jr not electable go to his site and see his analysis here <br><br><a href=\"http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/01/is-jesse-jackson-jr-electable.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/01/is-jesse...</a><br><br>Nate is usually right and have to give Reid props on this one, which is unusual for me since he gets things mostly wrong.  On this one he gots the Prez's back and I am glad for it! It ain't about black on this one it is about winning and giving Obama the majority so he can govern.  We can't be emotional and stupid about this stuff we have to be clear-eyed and levelheaded like our Prez.  There will be plenty of times to be upset with Reid but on this one he is steady.  Think with our heads on this one not our hearts.  Love Jesse but love ain't going to be enough to give him the seat this time statewide.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_20:54:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "f17a551954c749254380a2faae0ced7a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A white person masquerading as being Black on a Weblog?<br><br>&lt;&lt;&lt;ducks and LOL&gt;&gt;&gt;", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:10:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863797, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863028": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama had Jesse Jackson Jr. on the list people...LOL  Good god some on here are turning into the Broke down Black Nancy Drews...Now that is a Hot Mess!!!!<br><br> Holy Shit!!!<br> <a href=\"http://Politico.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Politico.com</a>  Just reported that Harry Reid still keep slaves locked up behind his house. Please people spread the word the Dems or trying to hold back god fearing Burris in a plot to in enslaving the Black race...God Save us! <br>:)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:46:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863030": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A bunch of B.S. goin' down, HAY......", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:46:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4862930, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4864055": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Take a nice long sip of Calm Down: Burris will not be seated. While the U.S. Senate's powers on unseating a Senator are incredibly vague, the Democratic Caucus, however, can delay Burris' confirmation with legal proceedings. All Reid needs to do wait long enough for the impeachment hearings to be completed and when, not if, the Illinois Senate finds Blago guilty of selling the U.S. Senate for financial gain, then he will be impeached and his appointment will be considered null and void; thereby, allowing the Lt. Governor to reappoint the candidate. <br><br>Now whether Burris has legal standing to challenge the reappointment is another matter.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:47:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "soulsistah02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863308, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868157": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, that's the point, isn't it? Reid, the Dem Senate leadership, and yes...Obama are acting as if they are opposing Burris on principle, when they tried to influence Blago's pick just a few weeks ago, knowing that he was under investigation, and having known it for months and months. Obviously, they assumed he would appoint someone, and had no problem whatsoever with him appointing someone..back on December 3rd.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_13:55:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4867457, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868158": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I linked you up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_13:54:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "990621a674c93f67244f23171f704367", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months 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}, "4868192": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>I need for Blago and Burris to swagga on down to DC and get in the mix. And Obama should stay his happy ass out of the situation unless it's to say \"We must follow the Constitution and seat Burris.\"</i><br><br>Me, too, Town.  And since I live in DC, I might have a front row seat to watch that madness.<br><br>Pressure to seat Candidate #5 - later identified as JJJ.<br><br>Now, why do I think Blago withheld the name of who was pressuring him until he got the perfect opportunity to play his trump card (in the aegis of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid)?<br><br>I also want to know if the crew at Kos' place got the vapors yet, now that their \"hero\" Harry Reid might have dirty hands in this shyt.  &lt;&lt;&lt;side eye&gt;&gt;&gt;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:01:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4867457, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863329": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agent provacateur?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:24:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863028, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4876872": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well feel free to be sarcastic but my point is that we have to be careful where we get info and be critical thinkers. There are plenty of valuable stories that don't get covered as well. There's nothing wrong with seeking alternate sources and in fact it's usually the more poignant info. The USA is very insular and we are taught a particular perspective despite our best efforts to be more open. Most people aren't even looking beyond 1 or 2 sources either. You can never be too curious!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-04_01:42:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4876614, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4864074": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-sign!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:47:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "soulsistah02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863469, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863571": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, but I hear from Bobby Rush & Burris that Master Blago is a good master. He even lets them sleep in the house.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:55:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863377, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863573": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I read jj everyday but finally decided to join in b/c this blago/burris race thing is really bothersome to me.  Now I think Reid should be replaced and I have disagreed with him on lots but this time with Blago I am with him.  This whole identity politics stuff has got to stop!! This is a new day.  Yes, we can speak up and stand up against injustice and for justice when we see racism but this is not one of these times.  Reid is actually doing what he is supposed to do on this one and looking at the whole enchilada.  All this talk about Burris being honorable is a bunch of bunk.  Look at his actions.  Are these actions of an honorable man.  Would anyone accept a position from Madoff if he offered one now he is out on bail? Come on folk! YOu cannot separate the political from the legal as Burris is doing and make it look clean in this situation when it freaking stinks! Burris and Rush both had negative things to say about Blago when he was arrested but now all of a sudden they can accept the appointment from him.  Why? Anyone smell desparation here? I black but I am not stupid.  I know when i see racism and this shyte with the dems blocking Burris is not racism and black folk that think it is better wake up or we will regret it.  These ole boys like Rush, Jones, Burris need to just back down and retire and stop trying to hold up shyte! Give others a break.  And I hope Jesse runs. Don't think he could win State wide but he should prove me wrong and do it.  The rest of them should just go home and support our Prez when he is right and speak out when he is wrong.  He likes that.  Don't just make trouble for trouble sake and help a stupid ass white man to run for cover.  DAM!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:56:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "f17a551954c749254380a2faae0ced7a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4864088": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Perhaps -- Reid needs Obama a lot more than Obama needs Reid.<br><br>Reid's seat is not  gimmie like Pelosi's", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:50:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863722, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4875354": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "wrong and wrong and wrong on all ur points.<br><br>Anyone Blago appoints should not be seated. period. Let there be an election if the State can afford it and let the chips fall where they may.  Put it in the people's hands.<br><br>if State cannot afford it then impeach the bastard and let the Lt gov appoint someone to be a place holder.  If Burris had refused Blago and then come out at a presser to announce his refusal with an explanation of why he refused re: tainted appointment only then would he have the cred.  This would have gone a long way to healing the situation and helping him to put his face out there in a positive light instead of in a cloud.  <br><br>So I do not know where you get your insight about my thoughts from but so far you are wrong down to the color of my skin.  Good causes bring good effects and bad bring bad.  This is the unassailable law of the universe.  <br><br>Nothing good can come from Blago or anything he touches and Burris is tainted and under a cloud.  Dems in Illinois tried to be too cute by far and now have created a monster.  Now they should let to and let God.  Put the thing in the hands of the people or impeach and be done with it and move on already.<br><br>By the no one in their right mind would have touched this and this says alot about Burris.  Once again I would feel the same way regardless of gender, class, race etc etc", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-04_00:34:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "f17a551954c749254380a2faae0ced7a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4875005, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4872719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I would be very careful about vetting the sources and purpose behind articles and stories in the corporate media and taking them at face value. Or do you believe everything you read as reliable and accurate?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_19:50:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863762, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863582": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "hotchimera, what do you think about the results of your poll over at Daily Kos?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:56:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863076, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863072": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Micheline...Surely the good governor was going to appoint a Black person to the seat before he was busted. I'm sure! Gov. Blago only care about Black people now as cover to push his hatred of Obama.  But let me stop Harry Reid is suppose to be the evil one here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:51:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4862952, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4870242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm new on this site, but have enjoyed reading everyone's take the issues since the primaries. With that said, Harry Reid should stay the hell out of Illinois politics. I find it very interesting that Reid \"cares\" so much that he \"forgot\" to find his outage against the GOP wanting to filibuster Al Franken's confirmation.  I also wonder if Reid is giving Gov. Paterson an earful about who he thinks is \"electable\" in NY. (BTW, Caroline Kennedy will be a fine senator.) Another thing that's puzzling is Menendez. He went along with Reid on this. Why? Why is a NJ senator so concerned with this and not sticking his nose in the search for Clinton's successor (who he supported early on)? Just throwing that out there.<br><br>As for Burris, I don't know. I think all sides are dirty with this pick, but I'm not from Chicago so it's hard for me to judge. If the people there think he can do the job, then that's fine with me. <br><br>That's my 2 cents.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_16:39:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "54f52d386220fcc3393f84671c2f45ef", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months 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}, "4863076": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "somebody trying tto get black folk fightin' 'gainst each other like crabs in a barrel.<br><br>Am tellin' y'all don't get drawn in!  Keep your heads on.  Isn't it convenient this story is now droppin' huh?!!! somebody want some trouble amongst black folks.  Wonder who dat body is? who benefits from situation turning to race fight? huh?! I am glad Reid spoke up and is trying to see big picture.  God knows somebody has to see it.  We just too shortsighted sometimes and too easily riled up.  Look and learn from how Obama moves.  He does not get worked up even though we think he should.  He weighs things and thinks before he speaks.  Lots of black folk were not for him and now y'all fightin' for these folk who show themselves to be dishonorable to get his seat.  I like Jesse but still not sure he would have won.  Don't think JOnes or Davis had a chance either.  Reid gets to me sometimes but I am with him on this one.  Peple! c duh dam fores' fuh duh dam trees and stop getting worked up over stuff that only will benefit effed up Blago.  Believe me this ruckus is what he likes and notice we not really talking about his problems now only about racism and white against black.  DO NOT FALL FOR THE GAME!!! We got the dam prize with Obama keep focused on that and learn from him to separate the chafe from the wheat.  I guess y'all want a repub to get this seat.  the way people behaving look like it could happen now. sheesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:51:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "f17a551954c749254380a2faae0ced7a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 42, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4875878": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Checkers and Chess use an 8x8 64 square alternating color board for both games. <br><br>....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-04_01:18:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4873489, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868202": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm beginning to wonder if Obama even KNEW Reid was involving himself in this shyt.<br><br>This is not a good beginning for the POTUS - Reid is now showing he's going go hardball on the POTUS when he rolled over for Bush for the last six years?<br><br>GTHOH with that shyt.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:02:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868157, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4873835": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dang! Rikyrah, thanks to your post I'm gonna have to tune in to MTP to see how Harry Reid explains this one. :-P", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_21:57:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months 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}, "4863597": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's why we should have special elections so we won't have to deal with this bullshit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:59:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863469, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4867695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I like the fact that Reid is weak, I wish Pelosi was weaker as well. There is something wrong when you have an executive that was nationally elected in your party and regionally elected partsians can have control over his agenda.<br><br>I'm hoping Obama uses both Pelosi and Reid to maintain his high favorability and offloads the heavy negative lifting on them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_13:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4867026, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863601": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"I do believe that it was black folk like you long, long ago, who sold our ancestors as slaves on African shores to white people like Blago who used and abused us for their benefit.\"<br><br>\"Seems like the seed is still running amok.\"<br><br>Damn, hotchimera...you hate the man THAT much?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:59:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863582, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4867698": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Posting on Daily Kos doesn't make you enemy #1.<br><br>Posting all the time on Daily Kos, then all of a sudden taking a trip to other blogs to spread your message when you've not been to those blogs before makes you suspect.<br><br>And I think it's interesting that the Daily Kos people are screaming against Burris and all of a sudden we now have an influx of new posters screaming against Burris.<br><br>Just an interesting observation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_13:05:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4867322, "depth": 8, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868212": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You sound like a bigoted troll, Hot Chimera.<br><br>That is all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:03:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4866523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "No...uh uh. When you said \"I'm black BUT I'm not stupid\", I didn't assume you were not black. Not at all.  I recognized you as one of those black people who feels that most OTHER blacks are as a rule stupid, lazy, dishonest...whatever...fill in the blank. But you...ah, you are an exception to the rule, right? If I had thought you weren't really black, I wouldn't have said that you need to go sit down somewhere and polish up your \"Hi!!! I'm One Of The (few) Good Ones!!!\" badge you use to let the good white folk know that you're \"not like the others\".<br><br>Next?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:03:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4866523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If Durbin gets it, Lieberman better dust off that resume of his, because there's no way in hell Dick Durbin will leave a traitor like Lieberman in his midst.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:04:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4867026, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4866691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Damn...you are TOO obvious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_11:25:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4866523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4873866": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And why roll over on Bush like an ol' hound dog for eight years, but he now wants to act like he's Frank Lucas, and Obama is a \"Simple-Simon Mutha Effer\"?<br><br>Another dog that's not hunting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_22:01:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4872202, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4867723": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The Delaware appointment of a caretaker for Biden's seat until Sonny boy comes back from Iraq isn't democratic either.<br><br>But nobody's whining about that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_13:08:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863257, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863628": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "hotchimera...You should really look up what brother Rush did to Obama... Bobby Rush only cares about bring down Obama and crazy thing is he is getting help from a White Man Gov. Blago that everyone knows want to hurt our future Prez. <br>  Burris is washed up old school politician that does not have a snow ball chance in hell of winning statewide. The Gov. Blago & Bobby Rush knows this for a fact they are working together to undermine Obama. But certain people don't care about that shit they to busy crying river over old ass Burris being treated poorly by the man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:03:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863573, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868752": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No doubt he did, and he allowed Reid just enough rope to hang himself.  If you haven't figured it out yet, PEO is like most politicians in that he shits like the rest of them, but unlike most, he  wipes his hands.  He'll dipose of Reid with the smoothness that he's come to be known for.  And check PEO's approval ratings; his begginning is just fine!  This only plays to his advantage.  He'll have Reid out of there in short time.  Bet that!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:53:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "4fd3ca416b455e03c3fa02c8bc744eb4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868202, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863637": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The cost is a significant constraint, so I disagree on an off 2-year state-wide special election.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:02:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863597, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But  Rikyrah, they came up from the primary and then won the general. This is an appointment.  This in many respects is not a democratic process.  Appointment always involve machine politics. If the Democrats didn't have a primary, Obama would never had won the Democratic nomination  for the senate seat. One thing I will say is that for now on special elections should be the way of replacing a senator.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863197, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Especially Pelosi.<br><br>I've been through with her ever since she directed the Congressional Black Caucus to actively withhold their support from one of their own members, Cynthia McKinney, for being harassed by the Capitol Hill police...AND MOST OF THOSE MO FOS DID AS PELOSI asked.<br><br>She wouldn't restore McKinney's seniority when she won back her seat in 2004 - but there were white guys who returned and got their seniority back.<br><br>Plus, she kneecapped John Conyers by threatening to take away his Chairmanship of the Judiciary committee if he didn't back off the process of impeaching Bush.<br><br>Why San Francisco sent her back to Congress to represent them when she's done anything but is confusing to me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:07:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4867695, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863131": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "hotchimera....Thank you someone use there freaking head and looking and 2010. You thinking like a coach for the NBA. We need our best players folks and some of these people can't and never can win statewide. Once again Obama Black behind just got lucky that time he went against the Republicans for his former seat. Lighting do not strike twice. Harry Reid is trying to protect Obama seat he does not want the Republicans claiming victory in Obama home state. Thinking of it like a Basketball game you need your best players not your weakest ones called Burris and ex-black panther slash race hustler Rush.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:57:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 22, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863076, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4873372": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "H&F -- That's how I feel about ppl supporting the Blago-Burris show -- it's like Newsome in SF grand-standing that must be blocked b/c it actually defeats the things ppl claim they want. <br><br>So, not trying to compare them explicitly just saying people can end up feeling passionately about something -- but letting it distract from a larger goal.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_21:05:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4872679, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863135": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "According to Archpundit, neither Burris or Rush has a large following in the black community:<br><br>&lt;blockqoute&gt;...Roland Burris isn\u2019t a guy with a large following of African-American supporters and while Bobby Rush can carry his Congressional District, he is an abysmal failure when it comes to challenging white politicians.  He barely got a majority of the black vote against Daley.  He and Roland Burris cannot attract a big portion of the black vote.  They have virtually no organization, little money, and few allies.<br><br>This leads to a close second point, Rod Blagojevich probably did appint a black man to help him in impeachment hearings as well thinking it would put pressure on African-American legislators or white legislators with significant black populations in their district.  Simply not true.  There is no movement supporting him by black legislators and some like Monique Davis want him out just as much as before.  Those allied with Jesse Jackson Jr. have no reason to suppor the clown.&lt;/blockqoute&gt;<br><br>Here is the link:  <a href=\"http://archpundit.com/blog/2009/01/02/let-me-disabuse-everyone-that-blagojevichs-move-was-genius/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://archpundit.com/blog/2009/01/02/let-me-di...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:57:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4862865": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, Osmond  Larger number old school Black Dems didn't think Obama was electable. You know the Burris & Rush old school kind of Blacks who didn't support Obama in the beginning but now want the Glory of his former seat.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:29:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months 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}, "4871843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "EVENING THREAD IS UP", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_19:06:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months 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}, "4867236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "CPL, I just luv ya!!!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_12:34:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "spirit_55z", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863446, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4875941": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Different rules apply. Ignore and you get eliminated from contention", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-04_00:24:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4875878, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868266": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You know your politics, Pie.<br><br>Reid's favorability rate is way under 50% - if an election were held, he might make it out of the primary, but not the statewide election.  He might be very well fighting for his seat in 2010...and it might go to the GOP as a result of the Nevada Democrats not being able to find a viable candidate to challenge Reid for the Democratic nomination and being able to win state wide.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:08:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4864088, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4873901": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Get 'em , girlfriend!  Newsom talking outta both sides of his neck, and as a result, San Francisco's about to lose that \"Liberal\" label she has worn for decades, thanks to Pelosi and her bullshyt.<br><br>I hope Cindy Sheehan is regrouping to challenge her ass in 2010; I'll come home to wear out shoe leather for that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_22:04:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4872679, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4867760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Psst...<br><br>Unelectable [un/e/lek/ta/ble]  adjective, circa 2008:  to be black", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_13:10:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863469, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868273": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is real trouble for Democrats!  True enough Bobby Rush's recent statements were over the top and too heavy handed, but he wasn't lying about the hypocrisy of white Democrats.  This is some Dixicrat shit!  It's one thing to oppose a racial appointment, but it's a whole different matter to block African Americans from appointment.   This is a George Wallace move.  Reid all but stood in the doorway of the Capital.  I've said it a million times before, but it deserves to be said a million more times.  The Democratic Party is a plantation party and Black folks have been far too willing to enslave themselves to it.  Whether it's the Democratic political establishment or the so-called progressive arm of the Party, Black folks, whom they depend on, are not well represented in the leadership ranks.  They talk at us, down to us or dismiss us and every four years come up with excuse-after-excuse as to why it's not political prudent to run African American candidates statewide.  Until they have people that look like me in leadership, I don't give a fuck about the Daily Kos, Democratic Leadership, Human Rights Campaign or any of Liberal white establishments or negroes that excuse them, including some right here on JJP.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:10:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "4fd3ca416b455e03c3fa02c8bc744eb4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863667": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Uh oh!<br><br>You're on the case, Sherlock! Good detective work!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:10:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863601, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863433": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Valerie Jarrett was NEVER in consideration. Stop trying to do that bogusness. <br><br>Cheryle Jackson was the surprise. Qualified, but a surprise.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:37:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863400, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4866847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Right.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_11:44:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4866691, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "linda... glad to see another peson with clear thinking and not just doing things from emotion.  We got bigger fish with Obama Burris and the rest are just condiments.  You know how condiments could help cover up when something taste bad.  sometimes they can make things taste better too but this ain't one of these times. bad taste no condiment will make better on this one. can't believe i up still talking bout this crap. yawn!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:14:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "f17a551954c749254380a2faae0ced7a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863696": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wtf?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:14:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863691, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863186": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Whatever you might think Burris and Rush don't have; they have way more than Dan Seals.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:07:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863135, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4867800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OK, now this an interesting read. I don't know the workings of Ill politics, but your take seems reasonable to me.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_13:15:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "990621a674c93f67244f23171f704367", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months 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}, "4863193": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "How is this crabs in a barrell when I say that Black folk aren't going to accept some Harry Reid/Pat Quinn-picked approved Negro? <br><br>Don't Black folk have the right to take a look at that and say, ' Naw, son...it's not going down like that.'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:08:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863076, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4873946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-sign", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_22:06:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4872087, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868317": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think Biden made it clear to his appointee that he was keeping the seat warm until Biden's son safely comes back from Iraq to run for the seat himself.<br><br>No one's whining about it, because Delaware politics don't have the same dynamics as Chi-town, but again, the Double Standard is coming into play.<br><br>Too bad Biden didn't have a brotha he could have put in that seat - it would have taken the race issue out of this mix.  I'm sure Wilmington is full of qualified AAs Biden could have appointed...oh well.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:16:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4867723, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama did have Jackson Jr. as one of the candidates on the list. You can refer to the Obama Transition team internal investigation memo and the FBI document.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:17:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "soulsistah02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863335, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4873956": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Umm Burris was also not on Obama's list.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_22:09:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4867457, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Why do I believe there will be fireworks between Reid and Obama?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:19:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "soulsistah02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4875500": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"from but so far you are wrong down to the color of my skin.\"<br><br>I said I never doubted that you're black...remember? Are you saying you're not black, now?<br><br>This is such BS. It's like saying that someone who accepts a promotion is automatically \"tainted\" if his/her boss is a corrupt bastard. <br><br>Stop with the self-righteous, moralistic BS about who is and isn't \"honorable\". You and others have purely political reasons for not wanting to see Burris in that seat, and there's nothing wrong with that, in and of itself. Be honest and talk about those political reasons, because you know damn well that if Blago had appointed someone who you think is electable statewide, you would have no problem at all with who appointed that person. Stop bullshitting.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-04_00:43:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4875354, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4862930": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Iceberg,<br><br>you're feeling me. I know you're feeling me. You KNOW this is going to be the topic of conversation in the beauty and barbershops once this article hits circulation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:37:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4862908, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4880110": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-04_12:20:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Rhondacoca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863445, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4862846": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think it is foolish to appoint anyone other than a caretaker, or make clear that folks will get primaried.<br><br>I dislike the idea of giving any person a \"running start\" at senator -- I think special elections would be the best solution, but the cost is a prohibitive factor. Worse a motivated minority can subvert the majority in a special election.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:27:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months 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}, "4863734": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/2/194131/6247/779/679604\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/2/194131/6...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:20:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863667, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4869879": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If Obama is as slick as I think he is, he probably knew about it and let it happen.<br><br>See what will happen now is Reid looks like a racist fool and a hypocrite, because now it's known that he was dipping all up in Blago's mix and telling Blago not to appoint any of the black guys because they were \"unelectable.\"<br><br>Hmm, telling the governor of a state who elected 2 black Senators, one of which will become President in a couple of weeks not to appoint the black guys because they were \"unelectable?\"  And now he's all strong on blocking Burris, another black guy?<br><br>People are already noticing that Reid is all strong and full of vim and vigor when it comes to Burris but bent over and held his ankles on everything else including Lieberman.  They've already pointed out how the Senate cheered Ted Felon Stevens but is intent on blocking/expelling somebody who hasn't done anything wrong.  The knowledge that only the black people were on Reid's do not call list and his strong reaction to Burriss only makes the situation worse.<br><br>So I think Harry's time just might be up, and Obama gets rid of a weak and ineffective person and installs his own guy.<br><br>I certaintly hope this is how it goes down.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_16:13:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868202, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4867322": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Plants,<br><br>I sometimes blog and post over at Daily Kos, too on issues like New Orleans.<br><br>Because I do, that doesn't automatically make me Public Enemy No. 1.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/8/1/145214/0318/457/232446\" rel=\"nofollow\">When I posted this piece on Cynthia McKinney a couple of years ago on  the eve of the 20006 midterms, that was a monkey wrench in some people's views about her.</a>  As  much as I disagreed with some of what she had said in the past, I did not want to see the sista railroaded.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_12:42:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "blksista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863814, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4875005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hold on, now- in this comment, you're all about the \"electability\" argument, as if that's the only thing you're factoring in. As if you just think that Blago appointed the wrong person because he's \"unelectable\", but you don't have a problem with him appointing someone. But earlier you said...<br><br>\"All this talk about Burris being honorable is a bunch of bunk. Look at his actions. Are these actions of an honorable man.\"<br><br>If you strongly feel that anyone who would accept an appointment from Blago is less than honorable, what's the point of going further to make any other arguments? Evidently you just think that any candidate you feel is \"unelectable\" is dishonorable if he/she accepts the Senate appointment from Blago. If it had been someone you deem \"electable\", then you wouldn't have a problem with them accepting the appointment from Blago, right?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_23:57:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4873264, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863239": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As I told yall from the beginning. The elephant in the room is RACE. Stop saying Bobby Rush is injecting race. Bobby Rush and I looked past the surface. Yall need to apologize to Mr. rush.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:13:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "d3807f11b26fc6b1cf8ad05b419f8a33", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863009, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4873992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is Obama the governor of Illinois?<br><br><br>No, Rod Blagojevich is, and HE and only HE has the executive authority to appoint people.  <br><br>You need to run back to Daily Kos and get your A-game straight before trying to tangle with me on this one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_22:13:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4873956, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863757": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yeah, I noted above the source i had was not accurate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:23:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863710, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4873489": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sure but you have to know what game board you're on and what arsenal is at your disposal. No point in playing checkers on a chess board no matter how you feel or what your skill level is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_20:20:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4873372, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863762": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rikyrah:<br><br>According to a NYT article on November 23, Jarrett had independently sought out the senate vacancy UNTIL she discussed it with Obama. He informed her that he wanted her to be a senior adviser in the White House, but if she wanted to pursue the senate vacancy it was her choice. We all know how the story ended...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:23:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "soulsistah02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863433, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863254": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Micheline...Good news for me I cannot stand Bobby Rush & Burris for trying to get there hustle on with a crooked Gov. <br><br> As if they care about Blacks being senate more like they want to be in power.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:13:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863135, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868377": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "DNC in NV is not going to primary Reid -- that's not going happen. <br><br>GOP has a Gov and Lt. Gov under a huge storm cloud and issues so there are not going to be candidates LOL.<br><br>So, Reid might be in trouble in general, I'm not sure who the GOP is going to get. Maybe one of the two GOP congressmen.<br><br>However, NV would be foolish to vote Reid out with dems in control of the Senate -- procedurally there is too much of an advantage for NV as a state.<br><br>Reid is weak, but I'm sure even NV republican businessmen see the adv. of Billions of stimulus money and seniority in the senate. As a result, I don't seem Reid in real trouble.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:21:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868266, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Tammy Duckworth was a finalist for the Veteran's Affairs cabinet post. At no time was Duckworth on Obama's shortlist of candidates to fill his senate seat.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:24:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "soulsistah02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863335, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863262": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For clarity as far as I can see the coincidental names between Reid and Obama are:<br>Tammy Duckworth<br>Lisa Madigan<br><br>Both did not have JJjr. on their lists!, Reid had ONLY the above two. <br>Obama added<br>Jarrett, Hynes, and Jan Schakowsky in comparison to Reid.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:16:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4862952, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"somebody trying tto get black folk fightin' 'gainst each other like crabs in a barrel.\"<br><br>Oh yes, I agree. Interesting that you and Linda haven't commented on this blog before today, at least according to your profiles. Yes, I agree that some people may be trying to create the impression that we're fighting like crabs in a barrel here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:16:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863197, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863264": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "heh.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:16:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863072, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah...It was only two Blacks not five, not ten, nor 34....Longshots  is no different from winning the lottery.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:17:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863197, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4867457": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This revelation brings a whole new perspective to why Reid wants to block Burris...he's not on the approved list.<br><br>Somehow I'm thinking if Blago had appointed Duckworth or Madigan to the Senate post on Dec. 30 there wouldn't be all this noise about \"taint\".  Reid would have just accepted the appointed and claimed the law said he must, even if Blago was corrupt.<br><br>I need for Blago and Burris to swagga on down to DC and get in the mix.  And Obama should stay his happy ass out of the situation unless it's to say \"We must follow the Constitution and seat Burris.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_12:52:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4869595": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "the silence IS fascinating, isn't it, NMP? <br><br>You should read the scrambling being attempted, trying to skirt away that ALL the folks on Reid's unelectable list were BLACK and how it has nothing to do with race.<br><br>GTFOH.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_15:43:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868653, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863366": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "JESSE JACKSON JR. WAS ON THE LIST PEOPLE LINK BELOW:<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_jesse_jackson_jr_was_on.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_...</a><br><br><br> Stop the hating he was the list....lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:28:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Micheline...I agree special elections are much better.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:18:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863257, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863276": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think it should go to a primary. With a caretaker in the interim.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:18:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4862799, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863790": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<a href=\"http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_jesse_jackson_jr_was_on.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_...</a><br><br>\"Initial press reports about President elect Barack Obama's preference list of potential replacements for him in the U.S. Senate left Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill) off the list. According to an Obama internal review of the Blagojevich selling-of the-Senate seat scandal, released Wednesday by the transition, Jackson was on the list.<br><br>The Obama list<br>Jackson<br>Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)<br>Comptroller Dan Hynes<br>Illinois Veterans Affairs Chief Tammy Duckworth<br><br>added later<br>Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan<br>Chicago Urban League Chief Cheryle Jackson, former Blagojevich spokesman.<br>\"<br><br>Where's your source?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:27:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863772, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863197": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The two Blacks that won the US Senate seat were both 'longshots from Chicago'.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:09:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 21, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863131, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Who in the hell would say they're black, BUT they're not stupid, unless they felt that most black people are stupid?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:28:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863726, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4870866": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For Real.<br><br>We at JJP can train people on spotting \"The Pattern\" when it comes to race and gender.  We have PhDs in Double Standards, and Bullshyt detectors that fire up with the first post of troll flaming nonsense.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_17:15:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4869595, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863290": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think they should all duke it out in a primary battle. They have a year to prepare and raise money... whoever wants the seat.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:19:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863186, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863804": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Sherlock!<br><br>Congrats on good detective work!  Props!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:29:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863734, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4923202": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When people say a \"connection to the community\" or something, what are you talking about? Old style black pols like Rush, Burris, Jones and even Jackson Jr. (to a lesser extent) who have plenty of \"connection to the community\" ie. the political community and its machine. Or people like Donna Edwards, Obama, Deval Patrick who have a connection to the wider community ie regular people? If people want a black, or gasp since this was implied to be so bad (by the way that's snark to the annoying critical tone of Dan Seals), a half-black Senator than they ought to go with the later. Now I don't think that person is Dan Seals, who, I'd agree as a two-time loser obviously doesn't have a whole lot of electability. But still, I'm sure there's some sort of a businessperson and or activist and or state legislator etc out there who is qualified and not part of the old boys (cause they usually are) club, ie. part of the later group. Sorry, I don't think that's Jackson Jr., or even Burris who has acted foolish during this. Granted not as foolish as Reid, but still, pretty ridiculous.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-05_20:14:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "cb2425c5aa725fa5f44643a05679fe23", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months 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}, "4863300": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You can't have it both ways. You can't say Burris is a bad candidate, because of 2010, and then say, this is an appointment, what about 2010. <br><br>There was ALWAYS going to be a Democratic Primary in 2010. - whoever was appointed. <br><br>But, the thought of blocking the appointment of Jackson, Jr., because he was  so-called ' unelectable', is wrong. If he won the 2010 Primary, he'd be the stronger candidate for it. If he, as a sitting US Senator lost the 2010 Primary, then that would mean the winner was the stronger candidate, and would be better for it going into the election. <br><br>My problem is Reid, et. al, deciding that the BLACK candidates 'couldn't win' in 2010, considering that we are the ONLY state in America that has elected TWO Black Senators.  And leaving someone like DUCKWORTH, who hasn't won SHIT, on the list? <br><br>GMAFB.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:20:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863257, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thank you:). I just had a feeling that somebody that over the top had probably commented elsewhere, and \"hotchimera\" seems like a fairly unique screename...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:31:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863804, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4882316": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This isn't registering over at Daily Kos. This is one of those inconvenient facts that blows a hole in their narrative about this being about \"taint\".<br><br>What this really shows is that Reid and Democratic leaders were trying use extortion in order to subvert Governor Blagojevich's appointment authority.In other words, the \"clean\" folks were trying to blackmail the alleged dirty guy into not appointing African-American candidates , and if he did, they would not seat that person. Blago called their bluff and now we have a mess to start off the Obama era.<br><br>I hope this doesn't turn into an event that sidetracks or derails the agenda Obama and the Democrats were elected to enact. Self-inflicted wounds are a sign of incompetence.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-04_15:09:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "true999", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868273, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863308": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah...Don't worry they'll seat the hustler Burris. Once he loses in 2010 and a White Republican win the seat Blacks folk will have plenty to say. Don't White's Asians, Latinos people have say about the seat too?!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:20:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863193, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4862799": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hmm well Dems didnt think Barack was electable against hillary nor john mccain and look how that turned out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:23:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "3da4f68bf4cf2bd15ab3285db21c41ee", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4867920": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As I said before in another context in another post:<br><br><i>Be really careful and specific about who, which and what you are talking about.</i>  Especially when they hold differing views from you.<br><br>I have been here for months, am what some people might call a Kossack, although I do not always share Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's views, and am black.  Because I don't like certain people's actions (Blago, number one, Rush, second, and Burris, third) in this current controversy, that certainly doesn't make me an apostate from blackness, either.  I just think that the attitude, <i>support the brother/sister no matter what</i> can bite us in the behind on certain occasions, and this is one of them.<br><br>These new posters, as you say, may have been reading and watching all along.  If Markos has been fanning out DK supporters to troll other black blogs about this controversy, that certainly is something to consider, but not necessarily the only consideration about why they have suddenly appeared on JJP.  They may have been reading JJP all along.<br><br>CPL and Rikyrah (who lives there) may have their finger on the local pulse, and I appreciate their outlook.  But that doesn't mean that all folks in Cook County and Chicago are thinking as they do.<br><br>Since I live outside of Chicago in pale-faced Madison, WI, all this mess is really interesting.  But sometimes, people on the outside looking in have perspectives that no one else may have.<br><br>What do I think about Reid?  He's an idiot and I'd like to see him step down as well as LIEberman.  What do I think about his list?  Not even that important, because when the deal goes down, he has to acquiesce to the main man, Obama, and what HE would like to see.<br><br>This ain't ovah yet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_13:26:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "blksista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4867698, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863318": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"There was ALWAYS going to be a Democratic Primary in 2010. - whoever was appointed.\"<br><br>Exactly. And anyone who could not win statewide would be eliminated at that point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:23:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863272, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4874081": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cool your jets.  Obama has a right to express interest in who will replace him.  Blagojevich was also getting phone calls from Durbin. That's customary. There's nothing unusual about all these contacts.   Reading that article, one can tell that they were working off of that list provided by Obama because all those names appear in that list.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_22:22:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4873992, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863335": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For clarity. Rahm gave Blago Obama's list. Reid also had a list. Here they are listed below. Both Obama and Reid did not have JJjr on their lists.<br><br>Emanuel delivered a list of candidates who would be \"acceptable\" to Obama:<br>On the list were<br>Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett,<br>Illinois Veterans Affairs director Tammy Duckworth,<br>Illinois state Comptroller Dan Hynes<br>U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Chicago<br>State Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan<br><br>JJjr. was _not_ on Obama's list either. <br>The list was given to Blago before Blago's implosion.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-rahm13-2008dec13%252C1%252C1221.story\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/l...</a><br><br>Anyway that's Obama's list for comparison to Reid's list.<br><br>\"Rather, Reid called Blagojevich to argue he appoint either state Veterans Affairs chief Tammy Duckworth or Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times.\" from (IBS link)<br><br>For clarity as far as I can see the coincidental names between Reid and Obama are:<br>Tammy Duckworth<br>Lisa Madigan", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:25:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868456": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "...and let me tell you something else- when it comes right down to it, the fact(?) that you are nominally \"liberal\", write diaries at Daily Kos, and all that doesn't make you any different than someone like Jesse Lee Peterson. There is;t one ounce of real difference between the two of you. None.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:27:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868218, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863849": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Me, myself and I. LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:35:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "soulsistah02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863790, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863853": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sherlock,<br><br>You're on top of your game! lol<br><br>And know what? Hotchimera is angry as hell. <br><br>But Hotchimera better recognize, we have some sharp detectives that will ....find.your.ass.! lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:35:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863797, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863870": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": ":P", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:38:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863849, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863361": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And now Harry Reid is pushing the biracial Dan Seals because....? LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:28:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863264, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4873606": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wonder how Obama would have fared at the beginning of 'polling' for the 2004 Senate seat? <br><br>How could have Carol Moseley Braun would have fared at the beginning of her Senate quest?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_21:32:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4873264, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863369": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yep- agent provateur.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:28:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4862903, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863372": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama DID have JJJ on his immediate list.  The press speculated he did not.<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_jesse_jackson_jr_was_on.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:30:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863335, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863377": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is Harry Reid a good guy to work for, Linda? What kind of boss is he?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:29:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863361, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Dat you, Sherlock? lol<br><br>Somebody. got. busted.!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:20:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863658, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4872087": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well damn! Tell us how you REALLY feel! Ha! Ok but we (those of us that want equal representation, a seat at the table with the full meal AND dessert, and check signing privileges need to get on it!). We need our own think tanks and groups and I think they need to be separate from the old guard do-nothing Civil Rights groups but if we can find some common ground with them fine. There is also a huge segment of people who are literally drowning right now in a variety of internal and external obstacles that have to be addressed separately as well. There are competent viable Black females in politics who should be considered for the Lt Gov and Senate seat in NYS for example but I heard nary a peep out of any political blogs discussing this.<br><br>Lessons in Political Dominance We Can Learn From: <a href=\"http://snipurl.com/9985z\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://snipurl.com/9985z</a> <br>Why Should C. Kennedy Be the Only Woman Considered for NYS Senate?  <a href=\"http://snipurl.com/8styn\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://snipurl.com/8styn</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_19:33:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868273, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well that's news to me LOL -- all the lists from the major \"news\" organisation said JJjr was NOT on Obama's list.<br><br>LOL LOL LOL!!!! I give up! This is all speculative b.s. !!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:30:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "Piepiepie", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863366, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks, Plantsmantx!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:32:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863263, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4862880": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:   <b>YOU HATH SPOKEN!!</b>   It oughta B!!  Hmmmm!  <br><br>This is a <b>MAJOR HOT MESS!</b> <br><br>Whew!!     **shakin' my head***", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:30:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months 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}, "4876614": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, I solely rely on corporate media to provide me with fair and balance accounts of the political \"goings on.\" But I'm stumped because I cannot figure out why I have JJP, DailyKos, <a href=\"http://538.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">538.com</a>, <a href=\"http://TheUptake.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">TheUptake.org</a>, TheRoot, BlackPoliticsontheWeb and Huffington Post saved as my Favorites on my computer. I wonder what that could possibly mean? Hmm...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-04_02:16:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "soulsistah02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4872719, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4875174": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You'd better pay close attention to what you say around Sherlock...or risk being investigated! lol", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-04_00:15:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4873264, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863399": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "for Burris to 'lose' in 2010, that would mean that he'd have to WIN the 2010 Democratic Primary. But, I thought he was such a weak candidate and couldn't win the 2010 Primary? <br><br>Make up your mind. <br><br>If Burris has no chance, then a strong Democratic Candidate will emerge in the Primary in 2010. Someone NOT attached to Blago, who can claim their ' independence' from this all...and will win in November 2010. <br><br>Once again, I ask why is it crabs in a barrell for Black folk to say HELL NO to  a hand-picked Negro with no connections to the Black community?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:33:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863308, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863400": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For the Slow ones three Blacks was no the list as far as I can tell.<br>Jesse Jackson Jr., Cheryle Jackson & Valarie Jarett WAS ON THE LIST PEOPLE LINK BELOW:<br><a href=\"http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_jesse_jackson_jr_was_on.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_...</a><br><br> Now, excuses me I have to go read my Politico article on Harry Reid burning 666 in the foreheads of you Black Children. Since, he's White it has to be true! Goodnight...lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:32:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4862903": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh, the horror that Evil Harry Reid wanting someone electable for the former seat of the First Black President so it would not fall into the hands of the Republicans. Harry Reid is such a racist. Damn it's sad when a White man has your back. While some in your own race would put Gary Coleman in the seat just as long as anything or anyone Black is in it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:33:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863419": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "See...this is why I luv my regular JJP posters. :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:35:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863263, "depth": 4, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4862908": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is just escalating to a true <b>HOT MESS!!!!</b>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:32:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "icebergslim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863422": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Piepiepie....Lynn Sweet is the real deal. She is a good reporter. Obama showed his list in the internal Blago report he released a while back.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:35:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "6144ad3eb2bf17b846c1df3fca497bf2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863386, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4869056": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are on the money, CPL. <br><br>Couldn't NOBODY leak that story BUT Blago.<br><br>I'm telling you......this is hilarious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_15:24:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868192, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "At this point, I'd like to see Reid field a challenge to his Majority Leadership position.<br><br>Durbin could pull it off if he can round up the votes.  I'd like to see Russ Feingold as Durbin's deputy - together they will facilitate platform unity on legislation that needs to either be passed or filibustered, and they will kneecap Lieberman and won't care if he defects because they can filibuster his ass, too.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:36:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868377, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863428": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Rikyrah, that's too much like Black People thinking for their damned selves.<br><br>You know guys like Harry Reid would rather tell us what and how to thinks.<br><br>Is it me, or are there more \"Uncle Ruckuses\" coming on this board lately to tell us we're full of shyt?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:34:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863193, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863432": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Black Face in High Place syndrome.<br><br>Some are more infected with it than others.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:35:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863399, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4866892": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Blah Blah Fuckety Blah!<br><br><br><br><br>Sherlock, where you at? lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_11:48:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4866523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>but really assuming I am not black because I made a comment you do not <b>git</b> does not mean there is a conspiracy.</i><br><br><br><br>What's up with the misspelling? What are you trying to prove?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:50:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4866523, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4867026": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think everyone agrees that Reid sucks and should be booted from the job. Dick Durbin would be better.  The internal report  also contains a list.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_12:05:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4865048, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863445": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>Is it me, or are there more \"Uncle Ruckuses\" coming on this board lately to tell us we're full of shyt?</i><br><br>I thought it was just me wearing the tinfoil hat again, CPL. <br><br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:39:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863428, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863446": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "We're like my old neighbor, Grady.<br><br>Every neighborhood needs a person who knows who lives in the neighborhood and who's a stranger.<br><br>Plantsmantx is our \"Grady\", and he just did his job by saying \"I haven't seen you around here before - who you looking for?\"<br><br>No strangers were getting into the 'hood unless you got past Grady.  PERIOD.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:37:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863419, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863447": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I was in disbelief that Reid would dare insert himself and try to be the annointer of the next Senator from Illinois.<br><br>Reid's seat is open in 2010 too, right?  After this story about JJ-Jr, I'm ready to send atleast $25 to a democratic contender against Reid in Nevada.  He needs to go.<br><br>Furthermore, I'll be glad when January 20th eclipses all of this senatorial-hustle-and-flow...it's getting tired.  We need economic stimuli.  We don't need lawsuits within the Democratic Party.  This is \"not a good look.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:39:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Webb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4866523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "plantsmantx...you and your little friends see conspiracy where there is none.  Because I say 'I black not stupid' you assume I am not really black? wow! i might be new writing on this board but i am always checking in and some here might feel they own this board and get suspicious about new folk commenting but really assuming I am not black because I made a comment you do not git does not mean there is a conspiracy. y'all thinking to highly of yourselves as far as i am concerned.  I wonder if you are really black? hmmmmmmm!?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_11:02:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "f17a551954c749254380a2faae0ced7a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863460": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with you about Duckworth even though she was on Obama's list .  Because of this Blago mess I like Jesse Jackson but I am so glad that he was not appointed.  Jackson will prove himself in the primary.<br><br>My problem with the Burris pick has more to do with allowing himself to be used by Rush and Blago as cudgels to beat Obama and the Democrats.  Blago did this to stir up shit. I am also extremely turned off by the exploitation of a legitimate issue about  the lack of African-Americans in the senate. I don't want Blago near that issue.  There's a better way of bringing this issue. A corrupt governor is not one of them. <br><br>Another reason I don't like Burris is that he should never had allowed Rush play the race card, By accusing the senate of being racist, Burris pretty much shot himself in the foot. The senate is unfortunately very clubby but they don't give a damn who you are. Look at Hillary she try to get a sub-committee and was duly rejected. Lynn Sweet has reported that Dick Durbin is not going to show him around.  Burris will end up being ineffective as a result of this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:40:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863300, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4872679": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Well look at who's in her district!? People were too caught up in same gender marriage (instead of helping working class SFers) that Newsom used as for political brownie points to dodge a recall that was mounting against him. We see how hard the backlash has been and how those that support it in theory (like me) have had to deal with those that feel entitled to it above all else. I knew he was full of it with his support but I couldn't find any reports that said otherwise until last week.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_19:44:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "heartsandflowers", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4868250, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4862952": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So what if Reid didn't want Jackson, Jr. There are a lot of people who didn't want him. That does not justify a corrupt governor exploiting race.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_01:38:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "faba19c60bc49948a7a5801b50c79fe1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863469": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "See, that's why the Democrats always shoot themselves in the damned feet.<br><br>Every person whom Reid has declared 'ELECTABLE\" lost their asses off in their respective elections.  This year, he was ignored, because he was hollering that \"Barack Obama isn't electable\" bullshyt and Barack Obama's the POTUS.<br><br>If Gore and Kerry had ignored this same old bullshyt that is always put out by DLC Democrats, one of them would have served two terms, and the other would be in the middle of his first term.<br><br>I want to know what defines \"unelectable\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:40:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863300, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863470": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:41:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863445, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4962287": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "FYI: Dan Seals grew up in Chicago and his father was on the Chicago Bears.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-07_11:58:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "f109f7f6a6c12cd111e4ad0e60eb4fee", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months 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}, "4868594": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ROFL, TOWN.<br><br>So when you gonna sign me up to manage your career?  I can promise you a longer shelf life than DL Hughley....LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:40:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4867760, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863478": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_02:42:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Justice58", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863446, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4875770": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wow!!!! you apparently think you know me!<br><br>Your arrogance is astounding! I told you how I feel but u just want a fight so there is nothing more i can say.  My previous reasons stand believe them or not.  Methinks u protest a bit too much and need to learn reading comprehension.  Your understanding regarding such seems quite stunted and limited.  Wish u well in your little, tiny, puny world. You obviously have issues. buh bye am out and done.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-04_01:06:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "f17a551954c749254380a2faae0ced7a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4875500, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4868604": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Back at ya, Spirit, back at ya!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_14:40:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "CPL", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4867236, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "4863658": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"I black but I am not stupid.\"<br><br>You're black...BUT you're not stupid? BUT???  Well, I'll be damned. You're black, but you're not stupid. You just gave yourself away, hotchimera.<br><br>You need to go sit down somewhere and shine up your \"I'm One Of The (few) Good Ones!!!\" badge.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-01-03_03:08:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "c87fa9ab975275187368e74f6f34d3d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 4863628, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "9286834", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "21630", "hash": -8347713455046571509}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 158, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 9286834, "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=well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen' +
		'&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/well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen/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='	+ 'well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen'
			+ '&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/well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen/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">158</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen/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/well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen/">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:9286834" 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/well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen/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:9286834" 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:9286834" 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'				: 'well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen',
			// 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/well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen/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='	+ 'well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen'
			+ '&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='	+ 'well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen'
			+ '&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='		+ 'well_isn8217t_this_interesting_reid_pressured_blagojevich_not_to_appoint_jackson_jr_to_obamas_us_sen'
				+ '&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/9286834/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-4862799">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4862799" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4862799" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4862799">Osmond</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4862799" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4862799" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmm well Dems didnt think Barack was electable against hillary nor john mccain and look how that turned out.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4863276">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863276" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863276" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863276" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863276" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863276" class="dsq-comment-message">I think it should go to a primary. With a caretaker in the interim.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4862846">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4862846" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4862846" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4862846" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4862846" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4862846" class="dsq-comment-message">I think it is foolish to appoint anyone other than a caretaker, or make clear that folks will get primaried.<br><br>I dislike the idea of giving any person a "running start" at senator -- I think special elections would be the best solution, but the cost is a prohibitive factor. Worse a motivated minority can subvert the majority in a special election.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4862880">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4862880" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4862880" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4862880">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4862880" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4862880" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:   <b>YOU HATH SPOKEN!!</b>   It oughta B!!  Hmmmm!  <br><br>This is a <b>MAJOR HOT MESS!</b> <br><br>Whew!!     **shakin\' my head***</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4862908">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4862908" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4862908" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4862908" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4862908" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4862908" class="dsq-comment-message">This is just escalating to a true <b>HOT MESS!!!!</b></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4862930">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4862930" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4862930" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4862930">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4862930" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4862930" class="dsq-comment-message">Iceberg,<br><br>you\'re feeling me. I know you\'re feeling me. You KNOW this is going to be the topic of conversation in the beauty and barbershops once this article hits circulation.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4863009">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863009" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863009" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863009" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863009" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863009" class="dsq-comment-message">Nobody better not ask me why I used Joe Lieberman in a comparative analysis  such as THIS ONE.<br><br>I knew after the dust cleared it was all about race.  PERIOD.  Reid might be a Democrat, but he may very well be a racist one at that.<br><br>He needs to answer why he didn\'t want JJJ, Emil Jones or Danny Davis in that seat.<br><br>Alright, I might not know enough about Dan Seals - I\'m not familiar with Chicago style politics, but I\'m still betting my money on the fact that his arm piece isn\'t a sista, and as Rikyrah has corrected me, he doesn\'t have a base in Chi-town.<br><br>I also suspect this brotha might be DLC and that\'s why Reid wouldn\'t object to his presence in the Senate.  He gets to kill two birds with one stone; he puts a brotha in that seat who might be the Dark Sith undercover.<br><br>But anyone who wants to say this isn\'t about race; see my posts on December 31st and January 2nd.<br><br>I now rest my case.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4863239">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863239" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863239" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863239">Ro</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863239" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863239" class="dsq-comment-message">As I told yall from the beginning. The elephant in the room is RACE. Stop saying Bobby Rush is injecting race. Bobby Rush and I looked past the surface. Yall need to apologize to Mr. rush.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4863030">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863030" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863030" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863030" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863030" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863030" class="dsq-comment-message">A bunch of B.S. goin\' down, HAY......</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4862952" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4862952" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4862952">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4862952" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4862952" class="dsq-comment-message">So what if Reid didn\'t want Jackson, Jr. There are a lot of people who didn\'t want him. That does not justify a corrupt governor exploiting race.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863262" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863262" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863262" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863262" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863262" class="dsq-comment-message">For clarity as far as I can see the coincidental names between Reid and Obama are:<br>Tammy Duckworth<br>Lisa Madigan<br><br>Both did not have JJjr. on their lists!, Reid had ONLY the above two. <br>Obama added<br>Jarrett, Hynes, and Jan Schakowsky in comparison to Reid.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863072" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863072" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863072">Linda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863072" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863072" class="dsq-comment-message">Micheline...Surely the good governor was going to appoint a Black person to the seat before he was busted. I\'m sure! Gov. Blago only care about Black people now as cover to push his hatred of Obama.  But let me stop Harry Reid is suppose to be the evil one here.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863264" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863264" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863264" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863264" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863264" class="dsq-comment-message">heh.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863361" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863361" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863361">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863361" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863361" class="dsq-comment-message">And now Harry Reid is pushing the biracial Dan Seals because....? LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863377" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863377" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863377">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863377" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863377" class="dsq-comment-message">Is Harry Reid a good guy to work for, Linda? What kind of boss is he?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863571" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863571" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863571">Linda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863571" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863571" class="dsq-comment-message">No, but I hear from Bobby Rush & Burris that Master Blago is a good master. He even lets them sleep in the house.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863007" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863007" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863007">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863007" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863007" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Lay.It.Down. Rikyrah!</b></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863076" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863076" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863076">hotchimera</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863076" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863076" class="dsq-comment-message">somebody trying tto get black folk fightin\' \'gainst each other like crabs in a barrel.<br><br>Am tellin\' y\'all don\'t get drawn in!  Keep your heads on.  Isn\'t it convenient this story is now droppin\' huh?!!! somebody want some trouble amongst black folks.  Wonder who dat body is? who benefits from situation turning to race fight? huh?! I am glad Reid spoke up and is trying to see big picture.  God knows somebody has to see it.  We just too shortsighted sometimes and too easily riled up.  Look and learn from how Obama moves.  He does not get worked up even though we think he should.  He weighs things and thinks before he speaks.  Lots of black folk were not for him and now y\'all fightin\' for these folk who show themselves to be dishonorable to get his seat.  I like Jesse but still not sure he would have won.  Don\'t think JOnes or Davis had a chance either.  Reid gets to me sometimes but I am with him on this one.  Peple! c duh dam fores\' fuh duh dam trees and stop getting worked up over stuff that only will benefit effed up Blago.  Believe me this ruckus is what he likes and notice we not really talking about his problems now only about racism and white against black.  DO NOT FALL FOR THE GAME!!! We got the dam prize with Obama keep focused on that and learn from him to separate the chafe from the wheat.  I guess y\'all want a repub to get this seat.  the way people behaving look like it could happen now. sheesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863193" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863193" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863193">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863193" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863193" class="dsq-comment-message">How is this crabs in a barrell when I say that Black folk aren\'t going to accept some Harry Reid/Pat Quinn-picked approved Negro? <br><br>Don\'t Black folk have the right to take a look at that and say, \' Naw, son...it\'s not going down like that.\'</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863428" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863428" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863428" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863428" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863428" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah, that\'s too much like Black People thinking for their damned selves.<br><br>You know guys like Harry Reid would rather tell us what and how to thinks.<br><br>Is it me, or are there more "Uncle Ruckuses" coming on this board lately to tell us we\'re full of shyt?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863445" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863445" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863445">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863445" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863445" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Is it me, or are there more "Uncle Ruckuses" coming on this board lately to tell us we\'re full of shyt?</i><br><br>I thought it was just me wearing the tinfoil hat again, CPL. <br><br>LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863470" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863470" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863470">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863470" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863470" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4880110" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4880110" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4880110" href="http://theurbanista2.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rhondacoca</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4880110" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4880110" class="dsq-comment-message">lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863308" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863308" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863308">Linda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863308" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863308" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah...Don\'t worry they\'ll seat the hustler Burris. Once he loses in 2010 and a White Republican win the seat Blacks folk will have plenty to say. Don\'t White\'s Asians, Latinos people have say about the seat too?!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863399" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863399" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863399">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863399" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863399" class="dsq-comment-message">for Burris to \'lose\' in 2010, that would mean that he\'d have to WIN the 2010 Democratic Primary. But, I thought he was such a weak candidate and couldn\'t win the 2010 Primary? <br><br>Make up your mind. <br><br>If Burris has no chance, then a strong Democratic Candidate will emerge in the Primary in 2010. Someone NOT attached to Blago, who can claim their \' independence\' from this all...and will win in November 2010. <br><br>Once again, I ask why is it crabs in a barrell for Black folk to say HELL NO to  a hand-picked Negro with no connections to the Black community?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4863432">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863432" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863432" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863432" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863432" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863432" class="dsq-comment-message">The Black Face in High Place syndrome.<br><br>Some are more infected with it than others.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4864055" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4864055" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4864055">soulsistah02</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4864055" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4864055" class="dsq-comment-message">Take a nice long sip of Calm Down: Burris will not be seated. While the U.S. Senate\'s powers on unseating a Senator are incredibly vague, the Democratic Caucus, however, can delay Burris\' confirmation with legal proceedings. All Reid needs to do wait long enough for the impeachment hearings to be completed and when, not if, the Illinois Senate finds Blago guilty of selling the U.S. Senate for financial gain, then he will be impeached and his appointment will be considered null and void; thereby, allowing the Lt. Governor to reappoint the candidate. <br><br>Now whether Burris has legal standing to challenge the reappointment is another matter.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863582" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863582" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863582">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863582" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863582" class="dsq-comment-message">hotchimera, what do you think about the results of your poll over at Daily Kos?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863601" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863601" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863601">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863601" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863601" class="dsq-comment-message">"I do believe that it was black folk like you long, long ago, who sold our ancestors as slaves on African shores to white people like Blago who used and abused us for their benefit."<br><br>"Seems like the seed is still running amok."<br><br>Damn, hotchimera...you hate the man THAT much?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863667" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863667" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863667">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863667" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863667" class="dsq-comment-message">Uh oh!<br><br>You\'re on the case, Sherlock! Good detective work!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863734" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863734" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863734">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863734" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863734" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/2/194131/6247/779/679604" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/2/194131/6...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863804" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863804" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863804">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863804" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863804" class="dsq-comment-message">Sherlock!<br><br>Congrats on good detective work!  Props!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863814" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863814" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863814">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863814" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863814" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you:). I just had a feeling that somebody that over the top had probably commented elsewhere, and "hotchimera" seems like a fairly unique screename...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4867322" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4867322" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4867322" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4867322" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4867322" class="dsq-comment-message">Plants,<br><br>I sometimes blog and post over at Daily Kos, too on issues like New Orleans.<br><br>Because I do, that doesn\'t automatically make me Public Enemy No. 1.<br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/8/1/145214/0318/457/232446" rel="nofollow">When I posted this piece on Cynthia McKinney a couple of years ago on  the eve of the 20006 midterms, that was a monkey wrench in some people\'s views about her.</a>  As  much as I disagreed with some of what she had said in the past, I did not want to see the sista railroaded.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4869135" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4869135" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4869135">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4869135" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4869135" class="dsq-comment-message">Blksista, I didn\'t mean to imply that, at all. I just posted the source of this quote:<br><br>"I do believe that it was black folk like you long, long ago, who sold our ancestors as slaves on African shores to white people like Blago who used and abused us for their benefit."<br><br>"Seems like the seed is still running amok."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4867698" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4867698" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4867698">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4867698" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4867698" class="dsq-comment-message">Posting on Daily Kos doesn\'t make you enemy #1.<br><br>Posting all the time on Daily Kos, then all of a sudden taking a trip to other blogs to spread your message when you\'ve not been to those blogs before makes you suspect.<br><br>And I think it\'s interesting that the Daily Kos people are screaming against Burris and all of a sudden we now have an influx of new posters screaming against Burris.<br><br>Just an interesting observation.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4867920" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4867920" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4867920" href="http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blksista</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4867920" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4867920" class="dsq-comment-message">As I said before in another context in another post:<br><br><i>Be really careful and specific about who, which and what you are talking about.</i>  Especially when they hold differing views from you.<br><br>I have been here for months, am what some people might call a Kossack, although I do not always share Markos Moulitsas Zuniga\'s views, and am black.  Because I don\'t like certain people\'s actions (Blago, number one, Rush, second, and Burris, third) in this current controversy, that certainly doesn\'t make me an apostate from blackness, either.  I just think that the attitude, <i>support the brother/sister no matter what</i> can bite us in the behind on certain occasions, and this is one of them.<br><br>These new posters, as you say, may have been reading and watching all along.  If Markos has been fanning out DK supporters to troll other black blogs about this controversy, that certainly is something to consider, but not necessarily the only consideration about why they have suddenly appeared on JJP.  They may have been reading JJP all along.<br><br>CPL and Rikyrah (who lives there) may have their finger on the local pulse, and I appreciate their outlook.  But that doesn\'t mean that all folks in Cook County and Chicago are thinking as they do.<br><br>Since I live outside of Chicago in pale-faced Madison, WI, all this mess is really interesting.  But sometimes, people on the outside looking in have perspectives that no one else may have.<br><br>What do I think about Reid?  He\'s an idiot and I\'d like to see him step down as well as LIEberman.  What do I think about his list?  Not even that important, because when the deal goes down, he has to acquiesce to the main man, Obama, and what HE would like to see.<br><br>This ain\'t ovah yet.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863131" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863131" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863131">Linda</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863131" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863131" class="dsq-comment-message">hotchimera....Thank you someone use there freaking head and looking and 2010. You thinking like a coach for the NBA. We need our best players folks and some of these people can\'t and never can win statewide. Once again Obama Black behind just got lucky that time he went against the Republicans for his former seat. Lighting do not strike twice. Harry Reid is trying to protect Obama seat he does not want the Republicans claiming victory in Obama home state. Thinking of it like a Basketball game you need your best players not your weakest ones called Burris and ex-black panther slash race hustler Rush.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863197" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863197" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863197">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863197" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863197" class="dsq-comment-message">The two Blacks that won the US Senate seat were both \'longshots from Chicago\'.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863257" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863257" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863257">Micheline </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863257" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863257" class="dsq-comment-message">But  Rikyrah, they came up from the primary and then won the general. This is an appointment.  This in many respects is not a democratic process.  Appointment always involve machine politics. If the Democrats didn\'t have a primary, Obama would never had won the Democratic nomination  for the senate seat. One thing I will say is that for now on special elections should be the way of replacing a senator.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863300" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863300" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863300">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863300" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863300" class="dsq-comment-message">You can\'t have it both ways. You can\'t say Burris is a bad candidate, because of 2010, and then say, this is an appointment, what about 2010. <br><br>There was ALWAYS going to be a Democratic Primary in 2010. - whoever was appointed. <br><br>But, the thought of blocking the appointment of Jackson, Jr., because he was  so-called \' unelectable\', is wrong. If he won the 2010 Primary, he\'d be the stronger candidate for it. If he, as a sitting US Senator lost the 2010 Primary, then that would mean the winner was the stronger candidate, and would be better for it going into the election. <br><br>My problem is Reid, et. al, deciding that the BLACK candidates \'couldn\'t win\' in 2010, considering that we are the ONLY state in America that has elected TWO Black Senators.  And leaving someone like DUCKWORTH, who hasn\'t won SHIT, on the list? <br><br>GMAFB.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863460" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863460" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863460">Micheline </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863460" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863460" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with you about Duckworth even though she was on Obama\'s list .  Because of this Blago mess I like Jesse Jackson but I am so glad that he was not appointed.  Jackson will prove himself in the primary.<br><br>My problem with the Burris pick has more to do with allowing himself to be used by Rush and Blago as cudgels to beat Obama and the Democrats.  Blago did this to stir up shit. I am also extremely turned off by the exploitation of a legitimate issue about  the lack of African-Americans in the senate. I don\'t want Blago near that issue.  There\'s a better way of bringing this issue. A corrupt governor is not one of them. <br><br>Another reason I don\'t like Burris is that he should never had allowed Rush play the race card, By accusing the senate of being racist, Burris pretty much shot himself in the foot. The senate is unfortunately very clubby but they don\'t give a damn who you are. Look at Hillary she try to get a sub-committee and was duly rejected. Lynn Sweet has reported that Dick Durbin is not going to show him around.  Burris will end up being ineffective as a result of this.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863469" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863469" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863469" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863469" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863469" class="dsq-comment-message">See, that\'s why the Democrats always shoot themselves in the damned feet.<br><br>Every person whom Reid has declared \'ELECTABLE" lost their asses off in their respective elections.  This year, he was ignored, because he was hollering that "Barack Obama isn\'t electable" bullshyt and Barack Obama\'s the POTUS.<br><br>If Gore and Kerry had ignored this same old bullshyt that is always put out by DLC Democrats, one of them would have served two terms, and the other would be in the middle of his first term.<br><br>I want to know what defines "unelectable".</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863597" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863597" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863597">Micheline </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863597" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863597" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s why we should have special elections so we won\'t have to deal with this bullshit.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863637" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863637" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863637" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863637" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863637" class="dsq-comment-message">The cost is a significant constraint, so I disagree on an off 2-year state-wide special election.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4864074" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4864074" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4864074">soulsistah02</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4864074" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4864074" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4867760" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4867760" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4867760">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4867760" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4867760" class="dsq-comment-message">Psst...<br><br>Unelectable [un/e/lek/ta/ble]  adjective, circa 2008:  to be black</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4868594" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868594" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868594" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868594" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868594" class="dsq-comment-message">ROFL, TOWN.<br><br>So when you gonna sign me up to manage your career?  I can promise you a longer shelf life than DL Hughley....LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4867723" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4867723" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4867723">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4867723" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4867723" class="dsq-comment-message">The Delaware appointment of a caretaker for Biden\'s seat until Sonny boy comes back from Iraq isn\'t democratic either.<br><br>But nobody\'s whining about that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4868317" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868317" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868317" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868317" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868317" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Biden made it clear to his appointee that he was keeping the seat warm until Biden\'s son safely comes back from Iraq to run for the seat himself.<br><br>No one\'s whining about it, because Delaware politics don\'t have the same dynamics as Chi-town, but again, the Double Standard is coming into play.<br><br>Too bad Biden didn\'t have a brotha he could have put in that seat - it would have taken the race issue out of this mix.  I\'m sure Wilmington is full of qualified AAs Biden could have appointed...oh well.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863272" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863272" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863272">Linda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863272" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863272" class="dsq-comment-message">Micheline...I agree special elections are much better.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863318" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863318" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863318">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863318" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863318" class="dsq-comment-message">"There was ALWAYS going to be a Democratic Primary in 2010. - whoever was appointed."<br><br>Exactly. And anyone who could not win statewide would be eliminated at that point.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863263" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863263" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863263">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863263" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863263" class="dsq-comment-message">"somebody trying tto get black folk fightin\' \'gainst each other like crabs in a barrel."<br><br>Oh yes, I agree. Interesting that you and Linda haven\'t commented on this blog before today, at least according to your profiles. Yes, I agree that some people may be trying to create the impression that we\'re fighting like crabs in a barrel here.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863419" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863419">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863419" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863419" class="dsq-comment-message">See...this is why I luv my regular JJP posters. :)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863446" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863446" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863446" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863446" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863446" class="dsq-comment-message">We\'re like my old neighbor, Grady.<br><br>Every neighborhood needs a person who knows who lives in the neighborhood and who\'s a stranger.<br><br>Plantsmantx is our "Grady", and he just did his job by saying "I haven\'t seen you around here before - who you looking for?"<br><br>No strangers were getting into the \'hood unless you got past Grady.  PERIOD.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863478" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863478" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863478">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863478" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863478" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4867236" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4867236">spirit_55z</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4867236" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4867236" class="dsq-comment-message">CPL, I just luv ya!!!!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868604" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868604" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868604" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868604" class="dsq-comment-message">Back at ya, Spirit, back at ya!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863388" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863388" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863388">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863388" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863388" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, Plantsmantx!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863265" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863265" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863265">Linda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863265" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863265" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah...It was only two Blacks not five, not ten, nor 34....Longshots  is no different from winning the lottery.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863135" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863135" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863135">Micheline </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863135" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863135" class="dsq-comment-message">According to Archpundit, neither Burris or Rush has a large following in the black community:<br><br>&lt;blockqoute&gt;...Roland Burris isn’t a guy with a large following of African-American supporters and while Bobby Rush can carry his Congressional District, he is an abysmal failure when it comes to challenging white politicians.  He barely got a majority of the black vote against Daley.  He and Roland Burris cannot attract a big portion of the black vote.  They have virtually no organization, little money, and few allies.<br><br>This leads to a close second point, Rod Blagojevich probably did appint a black man to help him in impeachment hearings as well thinking it would put pressure on African-American legislators or white legislators with significant black populations in their district.  Simply not true.  There is no movement supporting him by black legislators and some like Monique Davis want him out just as much as before.  Those allied with Jesse Jackson Jr. have no reason to suppor the clown.&lt;/blockqoute&gt;<br><br>Here is the link:  <a href="http://archpundit.com/blog/2009/01/02/let-me-disabuse-everyone-that-blagojevichs-move-was-genius/" rel="nofollow">http://archpundit.com/blog/2009/01/02/let-me-di...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863186" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863186">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863186" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863186" class="dsq-comment-message">Whatever you might think Burris and Rush don\'t have; they have way more than Dan Seals.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863290" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863290" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863290" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863290" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863290" class="dsq-comment-message">I think they should all duke it out in a primary battle. They have a year to prepare and raise money... whoever wants the seat.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863254" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863254">Linda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863254" class="dsq-comment-message">Micheline...Good news for me I cannot stand Bobby Rush & Burris for trying to get there hustle on with a crooked Gov. <br><br> As if they care about Blacks being senate more like they want to be in power.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863335" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863335" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863335" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863335" class="dsq-comment-message">For clarity. Rahm gave Blago Obama\'s list. Reid also had a list. Here they are listed below. Both Obama and Reid did not have JJjr on their lists.<br><br>Emanuel delivered a list of candidates who would be "acceptable" to Obama:<br>On the list were<br>Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett,<br>Illinois Veterans Affairs director Tammy Duckworth,<br>Illinois state Comptroller Dan Hynes<br>U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Chicago<br>State Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan<br><br>JJjr. was _not_ on Obama\'s list either. <br>The list was given to Blago before Blago\'s implosion.<br><br><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-rahm13-2008dec13%252C1%252C1221.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/l...</a><br><br>Anyway that\'s Obama\'s list for comparison to Reid\'s list.<br><br>"Rather, Reid called Blagojevich to argue he appoint either state Veterans Affairs chief Tammy Duckworth or Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times." from (IBS link)<br><br>For clarity as far as I can see the coincidental names between Reid and Obama are:<br>Tammy Duckworth<br>Lisa Madigan</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863372" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863372" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863372" href="http://thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">icebergslim</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863372" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863372" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama DID have JJJ on his immediate list.  The press speculated he did not.<br><br><a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_jesse_jackson_jr_was_on.html" rel="nofollow">Source</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863710" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863710" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863710">soulsistah02</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863710" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863710" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama did have Jackson Jr. as one of the candidates on the list. You can refer to the Obama Transition team internal investigation memo and the FBI document.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863757" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863757" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863757" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863757" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863757" class="dsq-comment-message">yeah, I noted above the source i had was not accurate.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863772" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863772" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863772">soulsistah02</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863772" class="dsq-comment-message">Tammy Duckworth was a finalist for the Veteran\'s Affairs cabinet post. At no time was Duckworth on Obama\'s shortlist of candidates to fill his senate seat.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863790" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863790" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863790" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863790" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863790" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_jesse_jackson_jr_was_on.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_...</a><br><br>"Initial press reports about President elect Barack Obama\'s preference list of potential replacements for him in the U.S. Senate left Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill) off the list. According to an Obama internal review of the Blagojevich selling-of the-Senate seat scandal, released Wednesday by the transition, Jackson was on the list.<br><br>The Obama list<br>Jackson<br>Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)<br>Comptroller Dan Hynes<br>Illinois Veterans Affairs Chief Tammy Duckworth<br><br>added later<br>Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan<br>Chicago Urban League Chief Cheryle Jackson, former Blagojevich spokesman.<br>"<br><br>Where\'s your source?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863849" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863849" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863849">soulsistah02</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863849" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863849" class="dsq-comment-message">Me, myself and I. LOL!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863870" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863870" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863870" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863870" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863870" class="dsq-comment-message">:P</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863447" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863447" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863447" href="http://www.WEESeeYou.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Webb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863447" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863447" class="dsq-comment-message">I was in disbelief that Reid would dare insert himself and try to be the annointer of the next Senator from Illinois.<br><br>Reid\'s seat is open in 2010 too, right?  After this story about JJ-Jr, I\'m ready to send atleast $25 to a democratic contender against Reid in Nevada.  He needs to go.<br><br>Furthermore, I\'ll be glad when January 20th eclipses all of this senatorial-hustle-and-flow...it\'s getting tired.  We need economic stimuli.  We don\'t need lawsuits within the Democratic Party.  This is "not a good look."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863507" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863507" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863507" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863507" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863507" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL (i wish too) --- there are going to be lawsuits regardless -- MN already has a bunch of on-going litigation. I think it will stop being in the national news shortly -- at least  until the confirmation hearing of Clinton and Holder.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863691" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863691" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863691">hotchimera</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863691" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863691" class="dsq-comment-message">linda... glad to see another peson with clear thinking and not just doing things from emotion.  We got bigger fish with Obama Burris and the rest are just condiments.  You know how condiments could help cover up when something taste bad.  sometimes they can make things taste better too but this ain\'t one of these times. bad taste no condiment will make better on this one. can\'t believe i up still talking bout this crap. yawn!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863696" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863696" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863696" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863696" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863696" class="dsq-comment-message">wtf?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863722" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863722" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863722">soulsistah02</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863722" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863722" class="dsq-comment-message">Why do I believe there will be fireworks between Reid and Obama?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4864088" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4864088" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4864088" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4864088" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4864088" class="dsq-comment-message">Perhaps -- Reid needs Obama a lot more than Obama needs Reid.<br><br>Reid\'s seat is not  gimmie like Pelosi\'s</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4868266" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868266" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868266" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868266" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868266" class="dsq-comment-message">You know your politics, Pie.<br><br>Reid\'s favorability rate is way under 50% - if an election were held, he might make it out of the primary, but not the statewide election.  He might be very well fighting for his seat in 2010...and it might go to the GOP as a result of the Nevada Democrats not being able to find a viable candidate to challenge Reid for the Democratic nomination and being able to win state wide.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4868377" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868377" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868377" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868377" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868377" class="dsq-comment-message">DNC in NV is not going to primary Reid -- that\'s not going happen. <br><br>GOP has a Gov and Lt. Gov under a huge storm cloud and issues so there are not going to be candidates LOL.<br><br>So, Reid might be in trouble in general, I\'m not sure who the GOP is going to get. Maybe one of the two GOP congressmen.<br><br>However, NV would be foolish to vote Reid out with dems in control of the Senate -- procedurally there is too much of an advantage for NV as a state.<br><br>Reid is weak, but I\'m sure even NV republican businessmen see the adv. of Billions of stimulus money and seniority in the senate. As a result, I don\'t seem Reid in real trouble.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4868545" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868545" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868545" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868545" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868545" class="dsq-comment-message">At this point, I\'d like to see Reid field a challenge to his Majority Leadership position.<br><br>Durbin could pull it off if he can round up the votes.  I\'d like to see Russ Feingold as Durbin\'s deputy - together they will facilitate platform unity on legislation that needs to either be passed or filibustered, and they will kneecap Lieberman and won\'t care if he defects because they can filibuster his ass, too.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4865048" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4865048" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4865048">evie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4865048" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4865048" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a horrifying story. And I\'m sick to death of people deciding who is and who isn\'t "electable" downstate. Jesse has been treated so poorly from the beginning with this thing, it\'s breathtaking. <br><br>I used to live in Seals\' district and I like him. I volunteered for him in 2006, and was sorry to see him get killed this year, but who the hell is Reid to decide from on high (and afar) which AA is and isn\'t "electable" in this state? <br><br>btw- saying Seals should be disqualified because of his wife is BS. Burris, othh, disqualified himself when he accepted the appt from our crooked, and crazy, governor. Seals\' problem, I believe, is that he doesn\'t connect effectively with people. That us unlikely to change just because some old, white men have determined he is a "palatable" AA. <br><br>The seat should have gone to Jesse, and if we\'d had a governor with any integrity, it would have. Now we have a mess from which no choice will be effective.<br><br>THE OBAMA LIST -- people here keep citing the rumored list, which was printed in the newspaper without the facts and did not include Jesse. Obama\'s own report, which came out the day before Christmas, said that Rahm DID include Jesse on the list he gave to Harris. It would have been a shock if Jesse hadn\'t been included.<br><br>I agree with those who say Reid should be forced from the top job, if this story is true. And unfortunately, this story has just increased exponentially the chances of Burris being seated -- a guy who was picked because he was the only one who would take it from the crook.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4867026" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4867026" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4867026">Micheline </span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4867026" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4867026" class="dsq-comment-message">I think everyone agrees that Reid sucks and should be booted from the job. Dick Durbin would be better.  The internal report  also contains a list.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4867695" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4867695" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4867695" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4867695" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4867695" class="dsq-comment-message">I like the fact that Reid is weak, I wish Pelosi was weaker as well. There is something wrong when you have an executive that was nationally elected in your party and regionally elected partsians can have control over his agenda.<br><br>I\'m hoping Obama uses both Pelosi and Reid to maintain his high favorability and offloads the heavy negative lifting on them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4868250" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868250" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868250" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868250" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868250" class="dsq-comment-message">Especially Pelosi.<br><br>I\'ve been through with her ever since she directed the Congressional Black Caucus to actively withhold their support from one of their own members, Cynthia McKinney, for being harassed by the Capitol Hill police...AND MOST OF THOSE MO FOS DID AS PELOSI asked.<br><br>She wouldn\'t restore McKinney\'s seniority when she won back her seat in 2004 - but there were white guys who returned and got their seniority back.<br><br>Plus, she kneecapped John Conyers by threatening to take away his Chairmanship of the Judiciary committee if he didn\'t back off the process of impeaching Bush.<br><br>Why San Francisco sent her back to Congress to represent them when she\'s done anything but is confusing to me.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4872679" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4872679" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4872679" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4872679" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4872679" class="dsq-comment-message">Well look at who\'s in her district!? People were too caught up in same gender marriage (instead of helping working class SFers) that Newsom used as for political brownie points to dodge a recall that was mounting against him. We see how hard the backlash has been and how those that support it in theory (like me) have had to deal with those that feel entitled to it above all else. I knew he was full of it with his support but I couldn\'t find any reports that said otherwise until last week.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4873372" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4873372" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4873372" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4873372" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4873372" class="dsq-comment-message">H&F -- That\'s how I feel about ppl supporting the Blago-Burris show -- it\'s like Newsome in SF grand-standing that must be blocked b/c it actually defeats the things ppl claim they want. <br><br>So, not trying to compare them explicitly just saying people can end up feeling passionately about something -- but letting it distract from a larger goal.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4873489" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4873489" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4873489" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4873489" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4873489" class="dsq-comment-message">Sure but you have to know what game board you\'re on and what arsenal is at your disposal. No point in playing checkers on a chess board no matter how you feel or what your skill level is.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4875878" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4875878" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4875878" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4875878" class="dsq-comment-message">Checkers and Chess use an 8x8 64 square alternating color board for both games. <br><br>....</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4875941" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4875941" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4875941" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4875941" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4875941" class="dsq-comment-message">Different rules apply. Ignore and you get eliminated from contention</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4873901" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4873901" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4873901" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4873901" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4873901" class="dsq-comment-message">Get \'em , girlfriend!  Newsom talking outta both sides of his neck, and as a result, San Francisco\'s about to lose that "Liberal" label she has worn for decades, thanks to Pelosi and her bullshyt.<br><br>I hope Cindy Sheehan is regrouping to challenge her ass in 2010; I\'ll come home to wear out shoe leather for that.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4868224" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868224" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868224" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868224" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868224" class="dsq-comment-message">If Durbin gets it, Lieberman better dust off that resume of his, because there\'s no way in hell Dick Durbin will leave a traitor like Lieberman in his midst.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4866523" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4866523" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4866523">hotchimera</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4866523" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4866523" class="dsq-comment-message">plantsmantx...you and your little friends see conspiracy where there is none.  Because I say \'I black not stupid\' you assume I am not really black? wow! i might be new writing on this board but i am always checking in and some here might feel they own this board and get suspicious about new folk commenting but really assuming I am not black because I made a comment you do not git does not mean there is a conspiracy. y\'all thinking to highly of yourselves as far as i am concerned.  I wonder if you are really black? hmmmmmmm!?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4866691" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4866691" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4866691">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4866691" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4866691" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn...you are TOO obvious.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4866847" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4866847" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4866847">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4866847" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4866847" class="dsq-comment-message">Right.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4866892" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4866892" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4866892">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4866892" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4866892" class="dsq-comment-message">Blah Blah Fuckety Blah!<br><br><br><br><br>Sherlock, where you at? lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4868212" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868212" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868212" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868212" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868212" class="dsq-comment-message">You sound like a bigoted troll, Hot Chimera.<br><br>That is all.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4868218" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868218" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4868218">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868218" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868218" class="dsq-comment-message">No...uh uh. When you said "I\'m black BUT I\'m not stupid", I didn\'t assume you were not black. Not at all.  I recognized you as one of those black people who feels that most OTHER blacks are as a rule stupid, lazy, dishonest...whatever...fill in the blank. But you...ah, you are an exception to the rule, right? If I had thought you weren\'t really black, I wouldn\'t have said that you need to go sit down somewhere and polish up your "Hi!!! I\'m One Of The (few) Good Ones!!!" badge you use to let the good white folk know that you\'re "not like the others".<br><br>Next?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4868456" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868456" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4868456">Plantsmantx</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868456" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868456" class="dsq-comment-message">...and let me tell you something else- when it comes right down to it, the fact(?) that you are nominally "liberal", write diaries at Daily Kos, and all that doesn\'t make you any different than someone like Jesse Lee Peterson. There is;t one ounce of real difference between the two of you. None.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4868730" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868730" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4868730">Justice58</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868730" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868730" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>but really assuming I am not black because I made a comment you do not <b>git</b> does not mean there is a conspiracy.</i><br><br><br><br>What\'s up with the misspelling? What are you trying to prove?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4867457" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4867457">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4867457" class="dsq-comment-message">This revelation brings a whole new perspective to why Reid wants to block Burris...he\'s not on the approved list.<br><br>Somehow I\'m thinking if Blago had appointed Duckworth or Madigan to the Senate post on Dec. 30 there wouldn\'t be all this noise about "taint".  Reid would have just accepted the appointed and claimed the law said he must, even if Blago was corrupt.<br><br>I need for Blago and Burris to swagga on down to DC and get in the mix.  And Obama should stay his happy ass out of the situation unless it\'s to say "We must follow the Constitution and seat Burris."</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868157" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4868157">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868157" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, that\'s the point, isn\'t it? Reid, the Dem Senate leadership, and yes...Obama are acting as if they are opposing Burris on principle, when they tried to influence Blago\'s pick just a few weeks ago, knowing that he was under investigation, and having known it for months and months. Obviously, they assumed he would appoint someone, and had no problem whatsoever with him appointing someone..back on December 3rd.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868202" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868202" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868202" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m beginning to wonder if Obama even KNEW Reid was involving himself in this shyt.<br><br>This is not a good beginning for the POTUS - Reid is now showing he\'s going go hardball on the POTUS when he rolled over for Bush for the last six years?<br><br>GTHOH with that shyt.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868752" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4868752">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868752" class="dsq-comment-message">No doubt he did, and he allowed Reid just enough rope to hang himself.  If you haven\'t figured it out yet, PEO is like most politicians in that he shits like the rest of them, but unlike most, he  wipes his hands.  He\'ll dipose of Reid with the smoothness that he\'s come to be known for.  And check PEO\'s approval ratings; his begginning is just fine!  This only plays to his advantage.  He\'ll have Reid out of there in short time.  Bet that!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4869879" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4869879">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4869879" class="dsq-comment-message">If Obama is as slick as I think he is, he probably knew about it and let it happen.<br><br>See what will happen now is Reid looks like a racist fool and a hypocrite, because now it\'s known that he was dipping all up in Blago\'s mix and telling Blago not to appoint any of the black guys because they were "unelectable."<br><br>Hmm, telling the governor of a state who elected 2 black Senators, one of which will become President in a couple of weeks not to appoint the black guys because they were "unelectable?"  And now he\'s all strong on blocking Burris, another black guy?<br><br>People are already noticing that Reid is all strong and full of vim and vigor when it comes to Burris but bent over and held his ankles on everything else including Lieberman.  They\'ve already pointed out how the Senate cheered Ted Felon Stevens but is intent on blocking/expelling somebody who hasn\'t done anything wrong.  The knowledge that only the black people were on Reid\'s do not call list and his strong reaction to Burriss only makes the situation worse.<br><br>So I think Harry\'s time just might be up, and Obama gets rid of a weak and ineffective person and installs his own guy.<br><br>I certaintly hope this is how it goes down.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4872202" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4872202" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4872202" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4872202" class="dsq-comment-message">Reid probably thought this was his time to secure his "power" separate from the President since he was such a lap dog before. But he\'s totally mishandled things.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4873866" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4873866" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4873866" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4873866" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4873866" class="dsq-comment-message">And why roll over on Bush like an ol\' hound dog for eight years, but he now wants to act like he\'s Frank Lucas, and Obama is a "Simple-Simon Mutha Effer"?<br><br>Another dog that\'s not hunting.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868192" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868192" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868192" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>I need for Blago and Burris to swagga on down to DC and get in the mix. And Obama should stay his happy ass out of the situation unless it\'s to say "We must follow the Constitution and seat Burris."</i><br><br>Me, too, Town.  And since I live in DC, I might have a front row seat to watch that madness.<br><br>Pressure to seat Candidate #5 - later identified as JJJ.<br><br>Now, why do I think Blago withheld the name of who was pressuring him until he got the perfect opportunity to play his trump card (in the aegis of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid)?<br><br>I also want to know if the crew at Kos\' place got the vapors yet, now that their "hero" Harry Reid might have dirty hands in this shyt.  &lt;&lt;&lt;side eye&gt;&gt;&gt;</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868653" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4868653">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868653" class="dsq-comment-message">3 consecutive weeks of rants about Rick Warren and only one diary, buried in the side bar, about today\'s report on Reid.  The silence says it all!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4869595">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4869595" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4869595" class="dsq-comment-message">the silence IS fascinating, isn\'t it, NMP? <br><br>You should read the scrambling being attempted, trying to skirt away that ALL the folks on Reid\'s unelectable list were BLACK and how it has nothing to do with race.<br><br>GTFOH.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4870866" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4870866" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4870866" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4870866" class="dsq-comment-message">For Real.<br><br>We at JJP can train people on spotting "The Pattern" when it comes to race and gender.  We have PhDs in Double Standards, and Bullshyt detectors that fire up with the first post of troll flaming nonsense.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4869056" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4869056">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4869056" class="dsq-comment-message">You are on the money, CPL. <br><br>Couldn\'t NOBODY leak that story BUT Blago.<br><br>I\'m telling you......this is hilarious.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4873956" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4873956" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4873956">Micheline </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4873956" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4873956" class="dsq-comment-message">Umm Burris was also not on Obama\'s list.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4873992" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4873992" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4873992">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4873992" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4873992" class="dsq-comment-message">Is Obama the governor of Illinois?<br><br><br>No, Rod Blagojevich is, and HE and only HE has the executive authority to appoint people.  <br><br>You need to run back to Daily Kos and get your A-game straight before trying to tangle with me on this one.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4874081" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4874081" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4874081">Micheline </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4874081" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4874081" class="dsq-comment-message">Cool your jets.  Obama has a right to express interest in who will replace him.  Blagojevich was also getting phone calls from Durbin. That\'s customary. There\'s nothing unusual about all these contacts.   Reading that article, one can tell that they were working off of that list provided by Obama because all those names appear in that list.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4867800" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4867800" href="http://darkstarspoutsoff.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DarkStar</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4867800" class="dsq-comment-message">OK, now this an interesting read. I don\'t know the workings of Ill politics, but your take seems reasonable to me.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868158" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868158" href="http://darkstarspoutsoff.typepad.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DarkStar</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868158" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868158" class="dsq-comment-message">I linked you up.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868273" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4868273">NMP</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868273" class="dsq-comment-message">This is real trouble for Democrats!  True enough Bobby Rush\'s recent statements were over the top and too heavy handed, but he wasn\'t lying about the hypocrisy of white Democrats.  This is some Dixicrat shit!  It\'s one thing to oppose a racial appointment, but it\'s a whole different matter to block African Americans from appointment.   This is a George Wallace move.  Reid all but stood in the doorway of the Capital.  I\'ve said it a million times before, but it deserves to be said a million more times.  The Democratic Party is a plantation party and Black folks have been far too willing to enslave themselves to it.  Whether it\'s the Democratic political establishment or the so-called progressive arm of the Party, Black folks, whom they depend on, are not well represented in the leadership ranks.  They talk at us, down to us or dismiss us and every four years come up with excuse-after-excuse as to why it\'s not political prudent to run African American candidates statewide.  Until they have people that look like me in leadership, I don\'t give a fuck about the Daily Kos, Democratic Leadership, Human Rights Campaign or any of Liberal white establishments or negroes that excuse them, including some right here on JJP.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4869809" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4869809">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4869809" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4869809" class="dsq-comment-message">This could be why Bobby Rush and Rod Blago played the race card at that presser the other day, because Harry Reid & Co. were playing it on them.  And that\'s probably why Blago chose a black guy to say F*CK U Harry Reid.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4872087" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4872087" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4872087" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4872087" class="dsq-comment-message">Well damn! Tell us how you REALLY feel! Ha! Ok but we (those of us that want equal representation, a seat at the table with the full meal AND dessert, and check signing privileges need to get on it!). We need our own think tanks and groups and I think they need to be separate from the old guard do-nothing Civil Rights groups but if we can find some common ground with them fine. There is also a huge segment of people who are literally drowning right now in a variety of internal and external obstacles that have to be addressed separately as well. There are competent viable Black females in politics who should be considered for the Lt Gov and Senate seat in NYS for example but I heard nary a peep out of any political blogs discussing this.<br><br>Lessons in Political Dominance We Can Learn From: <a href="http://snipurl.com/9985z" rel="nofollow">http://snipurl.com/9985z</a> <br>Why Should C. Kennedy Be the Only Woman Considered for NYS Senate?  <a href="http://snipurl.com/8styn" rel="nofollow">http://snipurl.com/8styn</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4873946" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4873946">Micheline </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4873946" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4882316" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4882316">true999</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4882316" class="dsq-comment-message">This isn\'t registering over at Daily Kos. This is one of those inconvenient facts that blows a hole in their narrative about this being about "taint".<br><br>What this really shows is that Reid and Democratic leaders were trying use extortion in order to subvert Governor Blagojevich\'s appointment authority.In other words, the "clean" folks were trying to blackmail the alleged dirty guy into not appointing African-American candidates , and if he did, they would not seat that person. Blago called their bluff and now we have a mess to start off the Obama era.<br><br>I hope this doesn\'t turn into an event that sidetracks or derails the agenda Obama and the Democrats were elected to enact. Self-inflicted wounds are a sign of incompetence.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4870242" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4870242">ceetay</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4870242" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m new on this site, but have enjoyed reading everyone\'s take the issues since the primaries. With that said, Harry Reid should stay the hell out of Illinois politics. I find it very interesting that Reid "cares" so much that he "forgot" to find his outage against the GOP wanting to filibuster Al Franken\'s confirmation.  I also wonder if Reid is giving Gov. Paterson an earful about who he thinks is "electable" in NY. (BTW, Caroline Kennedy will be a fine senator.) Another thing that\'s puzzling is Menendez. He went along with Reid on this. Why? Why is a NJ senator so concerned with this and not sticking his nose in the search for Clinton\'s successor (who he supported early on)? Just throwing that out there.<br><br>As for Burris, I don\'t know. I think all sides are dirty with this pick, but I\'m not from Chicago so it\'s hard for me to judge. If the people there think he can do the job, then that\'s fine with me. <br><br>That\'s my 2 cents.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4871843" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4871843">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4871843" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4871843" class="dsq-comment-message">EVENING THREAD IS UP</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4873264" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4873264">hotchimera</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4873264" class="dsq-comment-message">Nate Silver at <a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com" rel="nofollow">fivethirtyeight.com</a> has the numbers and he thinks Harry Reid did his job by say J Jackson Jr not electable go to his site and see his analysis here <br><br><a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/01/is-jesse-jackson-jr-electable.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/01/is-jesse...</a><br><br>Nate is usually right and have to give Reid props on this one, which is unusual for me since he gets things mostly wrong.  On this one he gots the Prez\'s back and I am glad for it! It ain\'t about black on this one it is about winning and giving Obama the majority so he can govern.  We can\'t be emotional and stupid about this stuff we have to be clear-eyed and levelheaded like our Prez.  There will be plenty of times to be upset with Reid but on this one he is steady.  Think with our heads on this one not our hearts.  Love Jesse but love ain\'t going to be enough to give him the seat this time statewide.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4873606" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4873606">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4873606" class="dsq-comment-message">I wonder how Obama would have fared at the beginning of \'polling\' for the 2004 Senate seat? <br><br>How could have Carol Moseley Braun would have fared at the beginning of her Senate quest?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4873991" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4873991" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4873991">hotchimera</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4873991" class="dsq-comment-message">obama had his probs with all communities including ours.  In this poll Jesse has 81% black support.  Obama had to fight to just get us to look at him.  So to me your point is moot because apples and oranges saying applies.  Blacks did not think Obama could win until he won Iowa looks like they think Jesse could win rite now but his name alone will drag him down with the rest of the country. Hey, he could run if he wants but I just think he is not a good candidate for full state election.  Just my opinion.  Can agree to disagree with you on this one. You obviously are not going to change your perspective and I for sure am not going to change mine.  sigh. Mosely Braun did not have Jesse\'s lugguage either.  Jackson name will not help him Statewide.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4875005">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4875005" class="dsq-comment-message">Hold on, now- in this comment, you\'re all about the "electability" argument, as if that\'s the only thing you\'re factoring in. As if you just think that Blago appointed the wrong person because he\'s "unelectable", but you don\'t have a problem with him appointing someone. But earlier you said...<br><br>"All this talk about Burris being honorable is a bunch of bunk. Look at his actions. Are these actions of an honorable man."<br><br>If you strongly feel that anyone who would accept an appointment from Blago is less than honorable, what\'s the point of going further to make any other arguments? Evidently you just think that any candidate you feel is "unelectable" is dishonorable if he/she accepts the Senate appointment from Blago. If it had been someone you deem "electable", then you wouldn\'t have a problem with them accepting the appointment from Blago, right?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4875354" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4875354">hotchimera</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4875354" class="dsq-comment-message">wrong and wrong and wrong on all ur points.<br><br>Anyone Blago appoints should not be seated. period. Let there be an election if the State can afford it and let the chips fall where they may.  Put it in the people\'s hands.<br><br>if State cannot afford it then impeach the bastard and let the Lt gov appoint someone to be a place holder.  If Burris had refused Blago and then come out at a presser to announce his refusal with an explanation of why he refused re: tainted appointment only then would he have the cred.  This would have gone a long way to healing the situation and helping him to put his face out there in a positive light instead of in a cloud.  <br><br>So I do not know where you get your insight about my thoughts from but so far you are wrong down to the color of my skin.  Good causes bring good effects and bad bring bad.  This is the unassailable law of the universe.  <br><br>Nothing good can come from Blago or anything he touches and Burris is tainted and under a cloud.  Dems in Illinois tried to be too cute by far and now have created a monster.  Now they should let to and let God.  Put the thing in the hands of the people or impeach and be done with it and move on already.<br><br>By the no one in their right mind would have touched this and this says alot about Burris.  Once again I would feel the same way regardless of gender, class, race etc etc</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4875500" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4875500">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4875500" class="dsq-comment-message">"from but so far you are wrong down to the color of my skin."<br><br>I said I never doubted that you\'re black...remember? Are you saying you\'re not black, now?<br><br>This is such BS. It\'s like saying that someone who accepts a promotion is automatically "tainted" if his/her boss is a corrupt bastard. <br><br>Stop with the self-righteous, moralistic BS about who is and isn\'t "honorable". You and others have purely political reasons for not wanting to see Burris in that seat, and there\'s nothing wrong with that, in and of itself. Be honest and talk about those political reasons, because you know damn well that if Blago had appointed someone who you think is electable statewide, you would have no problem at all with who appointed that person. Stop bullshitting.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4875770" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4875770">hotchimera</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4875770" class="dsq-comment-message">wow!!!! you apparently think you know me!<br><br>Your arrogance is astounding! I told you how I feel but u just want a fight so there is nothing more i can say.  My previous reasons stand believe them or not.  Methinks u protest a bit too much and need to learn reading comprehension.  Your understanding regarding such seems quite stunted and limited.  Wish u well in your little, tiny, puny world. You obviously have issues. buh bye am out and done.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4875174" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4875174">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4875174" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'d better pay close attention to what you say around Sherlock...or risk being investigated! lol</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4873835" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4873835">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4873835" class="dsq-comment-message">Dang! Rikyrah, thanks to your post I\'m gonna have to tune in to MTP to see how Harry Reid explains this one. :-P</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4923202" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4923202" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4923202">Davey Crockett</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4923202" class="dsq-comment-message">When people say a "connection to the community" or something, what are you talking about? Old style black pols like Rush, Burris, Jones and even Jackson Jr. (to a lesser extent) who have plenty of "connection to the community" ie. the political community and its machine. Or people like Donna Edwards, Obama, Deval Patrick who have a connection to the wider community ie regular people? If people want a black, or gasp since this was implied to be so bad (by the way that\'s snark to the annoying critical tone of Dan Seals), a half-black Senator than they ought to go with the later. Now I don\'t think that person is Dan Seals, who, I\'d agree as a two-time loser obviously doesn\'t have a whole lot of electability. But still, I\'m sure there\'s some sort of a businessperson and or activist and or state legislator etc out there who is qualified and not part of the old boys (cause they usually are) club, ie. part of the later group. Sorry, I don\'t think that\'s Jackson Jr., or even Burris who has acted foolish during this. Granted not as foolish as Reid, but still, pretty ridiculous.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4962287">Hm. </span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4962287" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4962287" class="dsq-comment-message">FYI: Dan Seals grew up in Chicago and his father was on the Chicago Bears.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863028" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863028">Linda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863028" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama had Jesse Jackson Jr. on the list people...LOL  Good god some on here are turning into the Broke down Black Nancy Drews...Now that is a Hot Mess!!!!<br><br> Holy Shit!!!<br> <a href="http://Politico.com" rel="nofollow">Politico.com</a>  Just reported that Harry Reid still keep slaves locked up behind his house. Please people spread the word the Dems or trying to hold back god fearing Burris in a plot to in enslaving the Black race...God Save us! <br>:)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863329" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863329" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863329">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863329" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863329" class="dsq-comment-message">Agent provacateur?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863366" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863366">Linda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863366" class="dsq-comment-message">JESSE JACKSON JR. WAS ON THE LIST PEOPLE LINK BELOW:<br><br><a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_jesse_jackson_jr_was_on.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_...</a><br><br><br> Stop the hating he was the list....lol</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863386" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863386" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863386" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863386" class="dsq-comment-message">Well that\'s news to me LOL -- all the lists from the major "news" organisation said JJjr was NOT on Obama\'s list.<br><br>LOL LOL LOL!!!! I give up! This is all speculative b.s. !!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863422" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863422" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863422">Linda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863422" class="dsq-comment-message">Piepiepie....Lynn Sweet is the real deal. She is a good reporter. Obama showed his list in the internal Blago report he released a while back.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863573" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863573" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863573">hotchimera</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863573" class="dsq-comment-message">I read jj everyday but finally decided to join in b/c this blago/burris race thing is really bothersome to me.  Now I think Reid should be replaced and I have disagreed with him on lots but this time with Blago I am with him.  This whole identity politics stuff has got to stop!! This is a new day.  Yes, we can speak up and stand up against injustice and for justice when we see racism but this is not one of these times.  Reid is actually doing what he is supposed to do on this one and looking at the whole enchilada.  All this talk about Burris being honorable is a bunch of bunk.  Look at his actions.  Are these actions of an honorable man.  Would anyone accept a position from Madoff if he offered one now he is out on bail? Come on folk! YOu cannot separate the political from the legal as Burris is doing and make it look clean in this situation when it freaking stinks! Burris and Rush both had negative things to say about Blago when he was arrested but now all of a sudden they can accept the appointment from him.  Why? Anyone smell desparation here? I black but I am not stupid.  I know when i see racism and this shyte with the dems blocking Burris is not racism and black folk that think it is better wake up or we will regret it.  These ole boys like Rush, Jones, Burris need to just back down and retire and stop trying to hold up shyte! Give others a break.  And I hope Jesse runs. Don\'t think he could win State wide but he should prove me wrong and do it.  The rest of them should just go home and support our Prez when he is right and speak out when he is wrong.  He likes that.  Don\'t just make trouble for trouble sake and help a stupid ass white man to run for cover.  DAM!!!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863628" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863628" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863628">Linda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863628" class="dsq-comment-message">hotchimera...You should really look up what brother Rush did to Obama... Bobby Rush only cares about bring down Obama and crazy thing is he is getting help from a White Man Gov. Blago that everyone knows want to hurt our future Prez. <br>  Burris is washed up old school politician that does not have a snow ball chance in hell of winning statewide. The Gov. Blago & Bobby Rush knows this for a fact they are working together to undermine Obama. But certain people don\'t care about that shit they to busy crying river over old ass Burris being treated poorly by the man.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863658" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863658">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863658" class="dsq-comment-message">"I black but I am not stupid."<br><br>You\'re black...BUT you\'re not stupid? BUT???  Well, I\'ll be damned. You\'re black, but you\'re not stupid. You just gave yourself away, hotchimera.<br><br>You need to go sit down somewhere and shine up your "I\'m One Of The (few) Good Ones!!!" badge.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863726" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863726">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863726" class="dsq-comment-message">Dat you, Sherlock? lol<br><br>Somebody. got. busted.!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863797" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863797" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863797">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863797" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863797" class="dsq-comment-message">Who in the hell would say they\'re black, BUT they\'re not stupid, unless they felt that most black people are stupid?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863853" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863853" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863853">Justice58</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863853" class="dsq-comment-message">Sherlock,<br><br>You\'re on top of your game! lol<br><br>And know what? Hotchimera is angry as hell. <br><br>But Hotchimera better recognize, we have some sharp detectives that will ....find.your.ass.! lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4868275" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4868275" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4868275" href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CPL</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4868275" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4868275" class="dsq-comment-message">A white person masquerading as being Black on a Weblog?<br><br>&lt;&lt;&lt;ducks and LOL&gt;&gt;&gt;</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4862865" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4862865" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4862865">Linda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4862865" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4862865" class="dsq-comment-message">No, Osmond  Larger number old school Black Dems didn\'t think Obama was electable. You know the Burris & Rush old school kind of Blacks who didn\'t support Obama in the beginning but now want the Glory of his former seat.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4862903" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4862903">Linda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4862903" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, the horror that Evil Harry Reid wanting someone electable for the former seat of the First Black President so it would not fall into the hands of the Republicans. Harry Reid is such a racist. Damn it\'s sad when a White man has your back. While some in your own race would put Gary Coleman in the seat just as long as anything or anyone Black is in it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863369" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863369" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863369">Plantsmantx</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863369" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863369" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep- agent provateur.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863400" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863400">Linda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863400" class="dsq-comment-message">For the Slow ones three Blacks was no the list as far as I can tell.<br>Jesse Jackson Jr., Cheryle Jackson & Valarie Jarett WAS ON THE LIST PEOPLE LINK BELOW:<br><a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_jesse_jackson_jr_was_on.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/so_rep_...</a><br><br> Now, excuses me I have to go read my Politico article on Harry Reid burning 666 in the foreheads of you Black Children. Since, he\'s White it has to be true! Goodnight...lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4863433" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863433" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863433">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863433" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863433" class="dsq-comment-message">Valerie Jarrett was NEVER in consideration. Stop trying to do that bogusness. <br><br>Cheryle Jackson was the surprise. Qualified, but a surprise.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863492" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4863492" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5L3M8Pn9KU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Piepiepie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863492" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863492" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m giving up as it feels like chasing a story, news organizations I looked at included Jarrett on the list. I saw Lynn Sweet\'s "actual" list for the first time tonight.  In addition, I remember the wire-tap summaries mentioning Jarrett -- so it is interesting how spectacularly misinformed the press was ( and myself as a result).</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863504" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863504">Linda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863504" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863504" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah ....Valerie Jarrett was darling on the list she refused to play to pay Gov. Blago...I\'m to tired track that down...So, I\'ll leave you to your conspiracy. Though, I\'m enjoying reading all this stuff about certain Dems this is kind of fun...Did you hear the one about Bobby Rush actually caring about Black people?! You see old Bobby hated Obama so much he did help with Obama in 2004 senate race. He wanted to help so much get a Black senator in office that he endorsed a White man to try and hurt Obama. Oops, that is sort like what he is doing now by helping Master Blago kill off Obama through that troll Burris.  <br><br>  So, good to see good old Bobby Rush still looking out for the Black community.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4863762" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4863762">soulsistah02</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4863762" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4863762" class="dsq-comment-message">Rikyrah:<br><br>According to a NYT article on November 23, Jarrett had independently sought out the senate vacancy UNTIL she discussed it with Obama. He informed her that he wanted her to be a senior adviser in the White House, but if she wanted to pursue the senate vacancy it was her choice. We all know how the story ended...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4872719" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4872719" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4872719" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4872719" class="dsq-comment-message">I would be very careful about vetting the sources and purpose behind articles and stories in the corporate media and taking them at face value. Or do you believe everything you read as reliable and accurate?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-4876614">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4876614" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4876614" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-4876614">soulsistah02</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4876614" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4876614" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, I solely rely on corporate media to provide me with fair and balance accounts of the political "goings on." But I\'m stumped because I cannot figure out why I have JJP, DailyKos, <a href="http://538.com" rel="nofollow">538.com</a>, <a href="http://TheUptake.org" rel="nofollow">TheUptake.org</a>, TheRoot, BlackPoliticsontheWeb and Huffington Post saved as my Favorites on my computer. I wonder what that could possibly mean? Hmm...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-4876872">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-4876872" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-4876872" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-4876872" href="http://www.actsoffaithblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Acts Of Faith Blog</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-4876872" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-4876872" class="dsq-comment-message">Well feel free to be sarcastic but my point is that we have to be careful where we get info and be critical thinkers. There are plenty of valuable stories that don\'t get covered as well. There\'s nothing wrong with seeking alternate sources and in fact it\'s usually the more poignant info. The USA is very insular and we are taught a particular perspective despite our best efforts to be more open. Most people aren\'t even looking beyond 1 or 2 sources either. You can never be too curious!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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