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Mr. Obama SPEAKS AFTER billary and bill!!!!<br><br>PAYBACK [albeit very smooth and  well-delivered] IS going to be a CUTTING, GNASHING, EYEBALL- SCRATCHING OUT fathermother!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Pass the popcorn, the pretzels, and the diet cola[my preference :&gt;)   :&gt;)]!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I'm so  going to be listening for the myriad of well-delivered BEAT DOWNS and DISSES!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:56:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "who?\" except the PUMAs who weren't going to be placated no matter what.<br><br><br>See, that's what I am talking about. Those hard core women who were jumping up and down like raving lunatics talking about \"inadequate males\" or  that would stay home...they had no intention of voting for Obama. I don't care what kind of catharis BS goes down. THEY ARE NOT VOTING FOR THE BLACK MAN. <br><br>Now, a good majority of her \"18 million voters\", were going for Obama without her help. 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I keep a laminated picture of her in my classroom. Students ask me if she is my granny :).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_01:09:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455513, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455650": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Again, the majority of contenders do not suspend their campaigns on that night.  Why people expected this when it has not been demanded of other competitors in the past seems like a double standard.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_18:56:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Redstar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455070, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456172": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes! Thank goodness David Shuster played hardball with them. David made them look dumb.<br><br>David is talking to 2 pundits right now (Michelle Bernard & another guy-Del Walters) who are exposing the clintons, but unfortunately the analysis is making O look like a pussy (sorry to go there, but I have to get it off my chest).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:56:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455863, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1443383": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Is there some arcane DNC rule or regulation or less-than-well-meaning committee that can render her the nomination at this point?  I'm worried that all of this Clinton celebration has some sinister purpose.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_18:03:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "zulu426", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1450552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "In case anyone has not noticed, the Democrats NEED<br>the Hilary supporters to vote for Obama.  Without them<br>Obama will LOSE.   So Obama is doing what any politician does to win -<br>acknowledge that he had competition.  It is not only the right <br>thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.   <br><br>As woman of COLOR , I wanted the roll call for Hillary.  She is the only<br>woman ever to campaign in all 50 states.     The roll call for Hillary<br>is for me and all American women everywhere.   <br><br>It is not about whining - 18 million votes need to acknowledged.<br>That is the purpose of the roll call.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_18:18:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "b465f4f12f205996e75e75aa8461ecc6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 31, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1601600": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I totally agree with the article.  I am so angry I could \"spit\".  I, like you, have to trust that Sen. Obama and his crew have the plans to make this backfire.  I am so sick of the Clintons that I will never, ever vote for either again.  This is the most immature action and childish game that I have seen in a long time.  How these BC can stand by and see this crap happen is inexcusable.  the Clintons need to be put in their place.  were the situation reversed, the DBC would be all up and in his business demanding that he back off.  This is not a Kingdom and Hillary and Bill are not royalty.  She lost, and she needs to act like she lost not that she is a co-president.  At a time like this when we are fighting to get rid of the Repubs. we don't need this kind of crap at the convention.  I am sick of the Clintons and all of their supporters.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-18_14:04:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "f4c2dbe7418061a13edafcfbfcd1d128", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1458247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A political race should not be about stroking one's ego.  Hillary Clinton has made this race about her, not what she can do for the American people or the Democratic party.  I won't even talk about how ridiculous I thought her run for the presidency was.<br><br>If she has conceded and formally asked her supporters to back Obama, why does the DNC need to give her another national stage to do so?  She bowed out in June; how many times since then has she campaigned with Obama?  What has she done to help bring in money to Obama's campaign that wasn't going to benefit her also.<br><br>Why does he have to bend over backward to please her and she seems to be plotting to jump right back in to this race because HER supposed 18 million supporters want their voice (that happens to be chanting Hillary's name) heard?  If she truly wanted to support Obama and the Democratic Party she would be campaigning much harder for our hopeful POTUS.<br><br>hypocrite she is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_22:04:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1450552, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441357": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "What?<br>Have her base, those hard-working white Americans pay off her debt?<br><br>Surely you jest!<br><br>Let the brother pay it off.<br><br>Remember, Hillary is entitled!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:35:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441032, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441870": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This is a tradition at every convention.  Jesse Jackson had his named placed in nomination, as did Ted Kennedy (1980), the 2 examples I see come up most frequently.<br><br>Honestly, it would have been a departure from tradition had this not occurred.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:17:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "29146e67aa9aa69bf1aa54dddf09dbcf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 19, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441465": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Question: Has there been a roll call at EVERY Democratic convention? <br><br>I swear, this whole situation really pissed me off! The more I think about it, the madder I get.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:43:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455712": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You know what the MSM would say:<br><br>\"Oh, my God, they're rioting!\"<br><br>\"It's Rodney King all over again!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:03:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1442219, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1468005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Baba,<br><br>There we will have to disagree.  As a former supporter, I find that Clinton has plenty to say and represent.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_08:37:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "Redstar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1465792, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1440878": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Its supposed to be the Democratic National Convention....but its also the \"appeasing whiny white women\" convention as well.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:08:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1464216": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Finally decided to claim my name and it was too short, this is Lily.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_23:08:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1464209, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441395": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm just thinking Obama knows something the rest of us don't and has something in store for Billary when they get out of line.   The Convention will be the Obama show -- he's going to let it become the Billary show which is probably why you're hearing so much whining about.  Obama is increasingly striking me as someone who goes \"Yeah, yeah, mmm-hmmm, I understand how you feel, I know where you're coming from, hug it out, k?\" but goes and does what he wants to after you're all cried out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:37:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1463414": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, but they also don't have themselves announced as the next President of the United States when they concede, either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_22:40:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455650, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1457272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Does anyone know if the DNC will be televised live?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_21:34:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441401": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b><br>\"Please tell me . . . Just what. in. the. hell. . .has Hillary sacrificed for the sake of party unity?\"</b><br><br>To be honest, B, THIS should have been the title of this post. <br><br>She ain't sacrificed SHIT.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:38:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441409": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I thought so.  I also remember Randall being one of the most overqualified reality show contestants ever with like 5 degrees LOL!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:38:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441335, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "jay:  Love the STR8!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)    I'll quote you if I use it!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:21:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441032, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1460363": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nicole:  And SHE IS:  an egoist, egomaniac, narcissist; SELF: absorbed, centered, inbvolved, obsessed, seeking, and serving;   selfish,  conceited!<br><br>And -  a self-centered person with little regard for others!!<br><br>And those are her better points!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_22:19:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1458247, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "YES! This is Randall Pinkett all over again, but at least Randall said, \"HELL NO!\" to the whiny Miss Ann, and kept it moving not giving a damn about what <i>they</i> said. Why couldn't Obama do the same? <br><br>I hope and pray that there is a method to this madness, because right now I am truly disappointed in the O man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:40:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1440929, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1466003": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town, I agree with everything you wrote.  Let me also add that the response to this pressure is setting a negative & dangerous precedent. The crazies are going to think that O is going to bend over everytime they exert a little pressure on him. If they can run the campaign, they are going to believe they can run the white house. The media is their media and, trust me, Hillary is going to use it to show him to be incompetent for the next 4 years. If she doesn't challenge him in 2012, as is her obvious plan, I'll eat my hat. He should've stepped to them a long time ago, and he'd be getting more respect today.<br><br>I understand that he is an easy going, non-confrontational guy, but there is a time for everything. I know he thinks he is above a certain mentality, but I hope he doesn't totally miscalculate the psyche of the american people. Americans like their leaders to exhibit a certain amount of toughness. Am I wrong? That was one reason why hillary gained momentum as her (low down, dirty) campaign progressed. The media was regularly talking about her having the balls to be CIC. We elect actors that play cowboys or people from Maine that pretend to be cowboys. And if Arnold were eligible, he'd be a shoe in. If he doesn't man up, he is going to give the presidency to the cryptkeeper.<br><br>BSerious, I implore you to send a copy of your essay to the Obama campaign.<br><br> I hope this will be his final concession. I hope he will cancel bill's speech. Bill is probably asking for a speaking fee. I got his speaking fee right here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_01:04:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1462498, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I'm beyond wanting her to disappear for awhile. I want her embarassed nationally at this point. I want them to call out her name and there be dead silence. LOL! \"<br><br>-I'll do you one better:<br>\"I'm beyond wanting her to disappear for awhile. I want her embarassed nationally at this point. I want them to call out her name and one person says, \"Who?\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:06:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1442053, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1440920": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dont worry, its all a scheme from those Evil Republicans via Karl Rove and Hallaburton", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:11:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "JibreelRiley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1468062": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's one post from TPM about this: <br><a href=\"http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/06/hysteria-aside-hillary-clinton.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_08:45:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Redstar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1459385, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1462981": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As a \"woman of Color\" if Shirley Chisholm had refused to leave the stage they would have shut her down so quickly...<br><br>We need to have a political version of Sandman to sweep Bill and Hillary off the stage if they get out of control at the convention.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_22:36:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455899, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1440929": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>But I just don\u2019t like it. I know the media wants to ignore this little fact, but Senator Clinton is NOT some type of co-nominee. SHE LOST .</b><br><br>This reminds me of \"The Apprentice\" when the Randall guy won, fair and square. Didn't Trump ask him to \"share\" his award with the loser? And wasn't Randall criticized as \"selfish\" when he refused?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:11:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "Anovelista", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1440878, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1468073": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's my understanding Edwards' name was entered into rollcall and he released his delegates to Kerry at the convention.  I could be wrong, and don't have time to google this right now, but that's my recollection.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_08:47:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Redstar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1465792, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456300": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OMG....Shuster made them look like COMPLETE IDIOTS. That was sheer comedy!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_20:11:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1456172, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456303": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sepia/miranda:   Love the \"imagery\"  - \"I Rode my husband's coattails\"!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Thank you on the SHIRLEY CHISOLM!!!  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_20:11:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455602, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Had to add this B, <br><br>She may think she's slick, but guess who's slicker? <br><br>Black folk. <br><br>Black folk were the reason her ass didn't win in 2008. <br><br>She pulled this bullshit and thinks that we'll kiss and makeup for 2012. <br><br>Now, I might not be a lot of things, and I know I don't know everything, <br><br>But, I know Black folk. <br><br>Riddle me this, B. <br><br>Do you think WE'LL kiss and makeup by 2012? <br><br>My answer begins with HELL and ends with NO.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:43:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441975": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "True, but again, I think this is something that's done at everyone, incl. in 2004 (d'oh!  another bad example...although, we haven't exactly been the winning party in the last sixty years...)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:26:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "29146e67aa9aa69bf1aa54dddf09dbcf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441951, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1459385": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Redstar:  Specific EVIDENCE???", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_22:13:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455650, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Bullshit.<br><br>It's about, \"I'm entitled and HE took it from me!\"<br>\"IT WAS MY TURN!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:10:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1450552, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1471169": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh I hope he has one, and will use it.  But I fear the issue is that he feels he does need those votes.  If she wanted to put a stop to this nonsense about walking out of the convention, etc., she could have (would just have taken some phone calls), but she didn't.  Don't forget, she's a fighter, and she's fighting this one all right! I hope he's not misunderestimating the Clintons.  If she can swing it at the convention, she will.  But I don't think she can.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_11:04:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "34dc24020ff62595aa85d213fe00a39a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1466302, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1453250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "zulu426:  \"SINISTER\"<br>1.   Comes from an archaic term meaning \"TO THE LEFT/left hand side.<br><br>2.  There is a song that begins   \"TO THE LEFT!   TO THE LEFT!\"  Everything you own is in the box to the left.[Beyonce :&gt;) ]<br><br>3.  billary/bill's box is  -  drum roll, please -   TO THE LEFT!!!<br><br>They will be kicked to the curb in due time!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;) <br><br>NOT TA WORRY!!!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I really need ta go see my mom.!!! My brain is getting blown out!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_18:27:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1443383, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1458885": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Honey01:  CO-SIGNING BIG TIME!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_22:10:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1456727, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1440973": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hillpatine is just disgusting.......and her megalomaniac husband TOO!<br>Great Post...I think it IS time we ask Senator Obama \"WHO'S CONVENTION IT IS\"........y'all know the media especially Southern Strategy Buchannan and Joe dead intern Skankboro will make a big deal of it. Not only that the idiot DNC gave Miss Piggy Rove and Hannity credentials.....Damn they are stoopid!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:15:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "gaiilonfong", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456335": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sepia:  \"As a woman of color\" - she speaks like a woman of WHITE!! [with apologies to those who support Mr. Obama]<br><br>Whew!  Exasperated Deep Breaths!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_20:14:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455581, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441491": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MSNBC's First Read says that Hillary will cast her superdelegate vote for Obama.<br><br><a href=\"http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/14/1266073.aspx#comments\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:46:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1457366": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Maybe it's just me, but why is this so historic? Because she she was the first woman to lose the least?  If she is so for the party being unified and moving on then why is she putting her name on the ballot?  She is \"putting batteries in these peoples' backs!\"<br><br>It always seems like Obama has to appease everyone, Hillary, Bill, McCain, McCain's Crackhead-ish wife.  Why does it matter what Hillary wants?  She lost!  She admitted defeat, so why does she continue?  I do not respect her or her husband and personally do not think the DNC should even entertain the idea of these people wasting good primetime slots to speak more of their backwoods political beliefs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_21:44:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1466071": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town,<br><br>co-sign.<br><br>co-sign.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_01:17:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1462498, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1602255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amen! As a woman of color I noticed that Hillary stopped speaking to me \"as a woman of color\" her last speeches were to \"white blue collar folk\"  which left out \"women of color\"   Isn't that what you heard or did you sleep that one?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-18_14:38:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "khrish", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1462498, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441501": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I know that's right, rikyrah!<br><br>I will never, EVER forget or forgive the Clintons for the crap they have pulled and continue to pull. They went from friends in my head to Public Enemy #1 and #1 1/2.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:47:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441459, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1466079": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Norma Desmond?<br><br><br>BWA HA H AH HA HA HA<br><br><br>Yep.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_01:19:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1462722, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1462498": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So should the Republicans who crossed over to vote for Obama or Clinton be acknowledged, too?<br><br><br>The number of Hillary supporters who refuse to vote for Obama are very small.  Even if Hillary had never run this year, and Obama had, those people never would have voted for Obama and it's high time that people wrap their minds around that.<br><br>You claim that Obama needs to acknowledge that he had competition -- he has.  The question is, \"Will Bill and Hillary Clinton and their stans acknowledge they got beaten FAIR AND SQUARE, by the rules THEY SET UP THEMSELVES?\"<br><br>As a woman of COLOR, I need for Hillary and her whiny ass supporters to get on the Obama train or get left at the station.  I straight up don't care about Hillary and her 18 million supporters needing to be recognized and for this to be recorded for history, ESPECIALLY when Hillary and her supporters, on OBAMA's historic night, felt no need to acknowledge HIM.  She made HIS HISTORIC NIGHT ALL ABOUT HER.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_22:33:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1450552, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1442020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You're right.<br>I had forgotten about the Father.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:30:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441646, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456358": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "zulu426:  Aren't song titles expressive!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Now, where's my MP3 playlist?   :&gt;)  :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_20:16:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455102, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441513": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"Who\u2019s Convention is This Anyways???\"<br><br>Whose convention is this? It is the Democrats' convention, and Hillary has not lost until the votes are tabulated and announced. I may not like it either but that's the facts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:48:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "80f4796ea1247f8314399b20eee9a863", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"He's not going to let it be the Billary show, I mean.\"  I think by the end of the convention everyone will be saying \"Hillary who?\" except the PUMAs who weren't going to be placated no matter what.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:48:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441395, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1468147": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "rikyrah, <br><br>I hope people don't kiss and make up.  Hillary has been sabotaging this election ever since she lost all mathematical significance after losing Wisconsin in late Feb.  She's been moving goal posts and causing distractions ever since.<br><br>You know me.  I wanted to force her out of the race back in March.  She had no realistic shot once she missed her goals on March 4 (remember, she had to win BIG in OH <b>AND</b> TX  . . . she couldn't do it).<br><br>The Clintons have done everything to show people that they could care less what happens so long as they have the power.  We don't need that type of narrow-minded \"leadership.\"<br><br>Bill and Hillary are placing their bets on the fact that 4 years is a long time and people have short memories.  But I just can't get over some of the things they did.  They need to go.  The Clinton fatigue needs to go.  And the Democratic party needs to stand up for itself.<br><br>Even more reason (if any were needed) to make sure we elect Obama as our next President of the United States.  Besides being the best option, he brings the added bonus of ENDING the Clinton reign.  Trust, the Clintons know it's GAME OVER once Obama wins in November.  They are desperate and doing everything in their power to cause a distraction.<br><br>2012???  Well, I don't plan on a need for 2012 because we'll be busy working to RE-ELECT Obama to his second term as president.  But, hypothetically speaking (in my worst nightmare scenario), a 2012 Clinton run would have such a large \"anybody but Clinton\" vote, I doubt she'd make it past the first few primaries.  She's burned too many bridges, and I wouldn't be surprised if she loses her seat in the senate to a strong challenger in 2010.<br><br>For real, I'm tired of having to even think about the Clintons anymore.  They are walking, talking, self-serving (if I can't have it, no one can) DISTRACTIONS.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_08:58:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441459, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455863": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "OMG.....did anyone just see that segment on Hardball with the two nuts that refuse to support Barack Obama and are in some sort of freaky parallel universe where everyone is against Hillary?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:17:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1466105": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, Admiral, it is very curious. Politicians clearly fear the clintons. There was a list circulating several months ago itemizing the deaths of very many people who have been affiliated with them. And then, a campaign manager from Arkansas was SHOT AND KILLED just yesterday. It was a very small story in the media, but he should probably be added to their list. It seems like a cover up. No one said why he was shot (at the campaign office), who shot him or any details. If the truth be known, they probably sent O his finger yesterday so her name could be added into nomination today.<br><br>Bill is a lobbyist for Columbia and Kazakhstan. God only knows who else. We can't find out because the $ goes into off shore accounts. He is the REAL manchurian candidate. Why else would politicians fear him as they do?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_01:23:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455899, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1442043": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Its also a fact that if the situation were reversed, we wouldn't even be discussing this.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:32:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441513, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1466108": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Another bit of history that craig hickman always points out:<br><br>in 2000, of ALLL the Congressional Races for a PRESIDENT to stick his nose in...<br><br>Bubba put him thumb on the scale FOR Bobby Rush AGAINST Barack Obama. <br><br>Payback is a mutha.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_01:24:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "rikyrah", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1463115, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1464577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I've been thinking since I heard the news that he has a reason for doing this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_00:08:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "msmartin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441395, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1442053": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think its exactly why following tradition doesn't work for the democrats...cuz the democratic party's tradition includes losing repeatedly. <br><br>There's no reason for this, particularly given her refusal to concede on the night he clinched, or the next week...or realistically ever since.  There's simply no reason for every Clinton in the family to be speaking at the convention (cuz I'm sure they'll let Chelsea intro one of them, lol) when they lost. And I honestly felt like they forced their way into the speaking roles and this roll call. It wasn't offered in a magnanimous gesture - it was forcing Obama's back against the wall and leaving him without an option to tell her losing behind to go somewhere and sit down without jeopardizing his chances.<br><br>Frankly, I want there to be a roll call and only 1 state calls her name. That won't look too historic and will show the true nature of her arrogance run amok. I'm beyond wanting her to disappear for awhile. I want her embarassed nationally at this point. I want them to call out her name and there be dead silence. LOL! <br><br>Maybe then she will truly understand that she lost. Some of her supporters I dont think will ever let it go, and Obama's gonna have to write them off..because he can't keep bending over backwards to try to get them on board when they clearly are not trying to be democrats, but hilary-crats. He'll start to look weak.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:33:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "012e760d6dd771c8245cdd8a5a1c2448", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441975, "depth": 3, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1466241": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The 18 million vote thing is pure, unadulterated, 100% clinton spin. This # includes the Florida and Michigan votes which should not count & which did not count, but she counted them anyway. She said it over and over until it caught on,now people talk about it like it's a fact or something. SHE DIDN'T GET 18 MILLION VOTES! Please don't collude in perpetuating this falsehood.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_01:59:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1442268, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441032": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "B-Serious is on fiyah today! I said the same thing when I first saw this on CNN. Str8 bullshyt!<br><br>I don't see why those 18 Million supporters just don't offer up a $1 a piece so she can rid herself of that debt.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:20:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1468170": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There comes a time when it has to be understand your enemies will not fight for you and this is one of those times. She can have the roll call, Bill can say his peace BUT none of that should be done in the vein of \"I need these votes\" because the die-hards are just that. They will pull the lever for McCain out of spite. The rest, who are concerned for the best choice for this country, will leave the ride or die mentality at the door.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_09:02:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "a43f021c11b2e6b394c6c3002f6cece0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455892": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh isn't it amazing? Gee, you'd think Hillary had risen to her position as a Senator all on her own instead of actually moving to a state where she knew she could win right away and those pesky residency requirements wouldn't be a burden, and purposefully putting in her 8 senatorial years in order to run for Bill's third term. Being a former first lady really does have its priviledges.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:20:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455602, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1467670": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dangit! I missed it! Is it available online?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_07:37:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1456325, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455899": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Can you imagine Shirley Chisolm pulling the shit that Billary is?<br>Nope.<br>Because the Democratic Party would have shut her down quick, fast, and in a hurry.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:21:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455602, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1467681": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Co-sign!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_07:41:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1462498, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1465130": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "msmartin:  I'm thinkin' this 2!    He can play chess!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_00:26:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1464577, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1467695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!  Randall is the perfect analogy.  Anovelista is on point with that one!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_07:43:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "B_Serious", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441409, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I have to ask...were either of them wearing a beard? :-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:23:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455863, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441605": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Miranda:   So THAT'S what www. means:    Whiney   White   Women(period!)<br>I usta use Weak   White  Women.  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:55:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1440878, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1466184": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hear, hear.<br><br>I've been troubled by this announcement all day. Had to go drive to the Bar Harbor. Climb atop Mount Desert Island. See heaven close  up and personal. Treat myself to some lobster and blueberry pie. <br><br>And I'm still reeling.<br><br>I hope the MY gut is wrong, wrong, wrong.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_01:43:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441276, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455946": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey now!<br><br>She's entitled.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:27:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455892, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441335": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "YEP!! I remember and I remember Randall looking like \"you got me mixed up with someone else\"....and there were whiny people upset about that too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:33:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1440929, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1487182": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually, her senate seat is through to 2012 as well.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_20:11:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1468147, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1459042": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "rikyrah:  BUT, ya got ta give billary some credit - - SHE IS FULL OF IT!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_22:11:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441401, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1442148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL - yea yea, I've heard it all before. She's entitled, being treated as a 2nd class citizen. Eat dirt!<br><br>Go ahead GreenLady - but no need to quote, its freeware.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:40:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441357, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441646": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Admiral:   Wasn't that Father Pfleiger's MESSAGE??  \"She's entitled. . . . .<br><br>Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!    Handkerchief please!!!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Actually, I enjoyed the SERMON!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:58:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441357, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think it was Minnie Riperton.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_20:08:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "c14dc645708e1f6b7caba8da416ef4b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455102, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1464188": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town, you have been on fire tonight. Word to all of it!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_23:04:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "3c8d202d0c652913485f703addf9c08f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1462498, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456362": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I disagree. He needs to tell them to kiss his black ass. He needs to call their bluff and stop letting them manipulate and intimidate him. The Clintons have SHOWN us all what they are about. They are liars and are not to be trusted. I agree with B Serious. If you give them a bean, they want the whole pot. When you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Its time for O to just say no.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_20:17:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1456077, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1470847": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm very curious about that -- whether people think this.  I am very concerned that this move makes him look weak.  I know people are saying actually it's a sign of strength, and I get that interpretation, but it seems off to me.  He really should have stood up to them on this one, (please SPARE me the BS about HRC not wanting this but needing to do it for her supporters) but I wonder whether as a black man he has found confrontation to really not be a good plan?  Mind you I'm white (and female) so I lack some inside perspective on this.  I recall as well during the primaries him not attacking her and people saying he really couldn't or he'd look like OJ. :P  I know it's also his style (\"disagree w/o being disagreeable\"), but is it in part his style because of his dealing with being a black candidate seeking statewide/nationwide office?<br><br>BTW on the merits I couldn't agree more that this is a huge problem.  We are going to look divided right up to the last minute.  She should have released her delegates and told them to support BHO at the building museum, for heaven's sake.  Nice words she said there, but as some perceptive person I spoke to at the time said, why didn't she release her delegates -- what game is she playing?  Now we know.  You think it ends here?  Keep your hand on your wallet and your eyes on your back, Sen. Obama.  But if she thinks by helping McCain win she is helping herself -- which is the only explanation that makes any sense, really -- she is delusional.  She is simply NEVER going to be president.  But I guess she wants her moment behind the podium.  It's really unbelievable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_10:55:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "34dc24020ff62595aa85d213fe00a39a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1456077, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441152": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thing is, Obama can't slam her without driving her base to the GOP. He-for better or worse-has to allow this to play out.<br><br>After accepting, though, Obama should put her in her place.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:22:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441665": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Town:   I'm believin' with you!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:00:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441514, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456002": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "here's what I don't get...why is it more important to recognize the alleged 18 million votes (since many of the caucus states didn't have to report their numbers, we have no idea who actually got the most votes and I've never understood why we should count Puerto Rico, lol) for the person who lost, versus recognizing and celebrating the alleged 18 million votes made for the person who WON and had the most delegates?<br><br>Since when has any political convention needed to concern itself with assuaging the egos and hopes of the person who lost in this manner? You dang sure didn't see the Dubya and Cheney giving much respect to McCain at the repiublican convention in 2000....and we never saw people demanding that other losing democratic candidates be allowed to have their canddiates acknowledged and their votes and delegates celebrated?<br><br>Are also going to have a moment for John Edwards populist war on poverty platform? Are Richardson, Dodd, Clark, and  Kucinich also going to be allowed to demand concessions in the official party platform? Demand prime speaking times? Demand that Obama and Hilary raise money to pay their debts? Oh that's right..I forgot Richardson was already holding fundraisers to help Hillary, even though he still had serious campaign debts of his own to pay.<br><br>I was watching Hardball and they noted that it has been 16 years since a losing candidate put his name on the nomination ballot - jerry brown did it to Bill  in 1992 and Billary was ticked at the time. My how times have changed. <br><br>I don't understand how continuously and repeatedly ignoring and shoving aside the voters who supported Obama is a good move for party unity. Its as if we the american public are only supposed to be concerned with the hilary-crats. <br><br>And if they don't know it yet..if Obama loses because of their machinations, its not like Bill or Hillary will escape from that unscathed. <br><br>The idea that unless these odler white women are pacified and soothed, that nothing can ever happen is beyond insulting to people who are true democrats - the ones who actually have read their platforms and know that both hilary and barack are 98% the same in terms of their policies. So anyone who suppoted Hilary that seriously is going to vote for McCain since she didn't win - has elevated hilary over the democratic party.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:34:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "012e760d6dd771c8245cdd8a5a1c2448", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1442268, "depth": 5, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1463180": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well!  Well!  Well!  Look -a- here!   Look-a-here!<br><br><a href=\"http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mccain_recycling_hillarys_old.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...</a><br><br>McCain Recycling Hillary's Old Campaign Stuff!<br><br>Is there anyone surprised at this???  Billary knew that she was doing this for 2 reasons:<br><br>1.  It would be a way of extending the primaries.  She Knew that the GOP/RNC would use her stuff BECAUSE she use[use to you say?] to be ONE OF THEM - A Goldwater Girl!!<br><br>2.  She and \"McAncient\" were more than friends!  and, he didn't have the grey matter to do this without plagiarizing billary's stuff.<br><br>The \"Comparison Chart\" is huge!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   <br><br>Can anyone ADD more??<br><br>JJP would this make for a thread??  I'm jes askin'   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_22:38:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1464209": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "One more time, you are on fire!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_23:07:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lilytiger", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1463115, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1442200": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yep.  BO is in a no-win situation here.  On the bright side there's the inevitable post-convention smackdown of Hill and Bill to look forward to.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:45:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441152, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455513": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "That's nice, but Shirley Chisolm spoke for me in '72...I don't begrudge Hillary the roll call vote, but if any shenanigans go down, her career is over.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_18:45:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 17, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1450552, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441187": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Please tell me . . . Just what. in. the. hell. . .has Hillary sacrificed for the sake of party unity?\"<br><br>-Nothing.<br><br>Obama is the one who's supposed to sacrifice.<br><br>Obama is the one who is supposed to bow and scrape to Miss Ann.<br><br>It harkens back to the night when Obama won the delegate count; Miss Ann couldn't be gracious then, and once again, when Obama WILL be seen as the man chosen by the Democratic Party to be President of the United States, Hillary CANNOT be gracious.<br><br>I'll watch the Democratic Convention to see Michelle Obama.<br><br>I'll watch the Democratic Convention to see Barack Obama become the Democratic standard bearer for President of the United States oF America.<br><br>But I WILL NOT watch the Clintons.<br><br>To HELL with their entitled asses!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:24:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "Admiral_Komack", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1601956": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "AMEN! i am sick of hearing this crap echoing.  We really don't even know how many of those votes that she did get were from games played by the Repubs.   Anyhow, she did not win! and I am pretty sick of her games.  We are in a rough race here and to use game plays at this point.  I have to trust that this whole thing will backfire because she has some really stupid supporters who don't care if we lose as long as she is not the candidate. I just feel this is a dangerous game that's being played here at a most crucial time. I had always heard that the Clintons were like this but I never believed it before and now I have been shown that they will do anything to win.  They are exactly the way Father Pleger portrayed them in his video.....Like it or not......he was right on target.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-18_14:19:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "khrish", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1466241, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1442219": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Honestly I'm surprised Bill hasn't been run out of Harlem with pitchforks and torches yet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:47:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsKitty", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441459, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeah, but even then it can't be too hard of one.<br><br>The no-shit recalibration of Hillary will come when(if) Obama is elected.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_20:33:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "Coby_D", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1442200, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456055": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Superdelegates control the nomination.  They would be the ones that would have to overturn it.  That won't happen.  They don't want to lose!  I agree with others here.<br>I wish they would say \"Hillary Who\"  when the roll call is taken!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:40:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1443383, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441951": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "and both the democratic candidates who were the nominees those years LOST the presidential election.<br><br>I'm not sure this is the tradition to follow. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:24:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "012e760d6dd771c8245cdd8a5a1c2448", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 18, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441870, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1466302": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Town, me too. But O is so conciliatory. He turns the other cheek @ every turn. Thats why its hard for me to understand how (white) people don't see him as being christian. He is truly a peace seeker.<br><br>I hope he has an ace up his sleeve, but even if he has it, I'm not convinced that he'll use it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_02:11:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d9312cd58c7caeb087835daea9d59b6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441395, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1465792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Redstar, you're mistaken. In 2004, Kerry won nearly 99% of the roll call vote. (The only other name on the ballot was Kucinich's). In 2000, Gore won 100%. As far as I can remember, the last time there was anything vaguely resembling a serious roll call challenge was in 1988,  when Jackson, like Clinton, had his name placed in nomination in order to give supporters a \"voice at the convention\". The difference is that Jackson's supporters actually had something to say. Jackson's platform was distinctly different from Dukakis' on a number of important issues, and Jackson used the roll call vote as leverage to get some of his positions integrated into the Democratic platform. Since Clinton and Obama's platforms are basically the same, all her roll call 'voice' will be saying is, \"Look at me!\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_00:32:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "c50f5a2c3fdcb7f32656dac96d700b30", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441975, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Not just that night, but how many nights thereafter before she \"suspended\" her campaign. Real classy Billary, real gracious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_18:46:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8b9328e61e0094ae18e247c922f9dc7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455070, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1462722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It's like she's the political version of Norma Desmond...<br><br>\"DNC, I'm ready for my close up.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_22:34:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1458247, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1463115": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "But you know what?<br><br>We wouldn't be talking about Barack Obama if she had taken her pantsuits and skipped back to her home state, ILLINOIS.<br><br>Ironic, isn't it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_22:37:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "Town", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455892, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1468065": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's a lot more than older, white women who supported Clinton.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_08:46:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "Redstar", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1456002, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456077": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Unfortunately, Barack has to do this because<br>Barack is Black.  There is no other choice for<br>him.  We all KNOW the drill.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:43:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455899, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1601743": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am so sick of the Clintons I don't know what to do.  They have adapted such an infantile mode of action it seems as if we are playing children's games.  I will be glad to see them just go away.  Change is the issue and that is what they don't want.  I don't think that Clinton is racist; I just think that he and his wife are sore losers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-18_14:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "khrish", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441744": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "ioa:  I'm going to begin with  -  <br>Whew!  Edumencated Deep Breaths!!!!<br><br>Did anyone ELSE NOT know this??   :&gt;)<br><br>I'm jes askin' . . .  :&gt;)   :&gt;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:07:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "GreenLadyHere", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1441513, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1442260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was just saying the same thing to my sister. Harlem needs to make it EXTREMELY uncomfortable for bill to go to work. Then they need to get rid of rangel's old ass!!!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:51:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "e6ff201b15d848b1b0261404221efe43", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1442219, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1442268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I don't agree with this perspective at all. I think it's important that her name be put into rollcall and I also believe it would reflect poorly on Obama as the winning nominee if this tradition were abandoned, particularly since both were historic candidacies (Shirley Chisholm and Jesse Jackson, notwithstanding; Chisholm's name was also entered into roll call.)<br><br>Clinton has certainly been more gracious about Obama's win than many of her supporters and surrogates (as a superdel, she will be voting for Obama), but I think that it's important to recognize the 18 million votes and 1800-odd delegates she received in a very exciting primary between two excellent candidates.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:51:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "29146e67aa9aa69bf1aa54dddf09dbcf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1442053, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>As woman of COLOR , I wanted the roll call for Hillary. She is the only<br>woman ever to campaign in all 50 states. The roll call for Hillary<br>is for me and all American women everywhere. </b><br><br>No, the roll call is for the egos of Hillary and her WHITE sistren everywhere. They ain't thinking about women of color. PERIOD.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_18:47:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1450552, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455070": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<b>Clinton has certainly been more gracious about Obama's win than many of her supporters and surrogates (as a superdel, she will be voting for Obama),</b><br><br>Yeah, she was so gracious that on the night that Obama officially became the nominee, she and her camp had her supporters in Baruch College's BASEMENT sans any access to the media and gave a speech about how the race wasn't over. <br><br>Yeah.....gracious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_18:37:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1442268, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1458658": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Think how fast they would shut Michelle Obama down if she ever tried to run for POTUS after gaining \"experience\" as 'wifey' while Barack was in office..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_22:08:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "nickwah22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455899, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1466339": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't understand how continuously and repeatedly ignoring and shoving aside the voters who supported Obama is a good move for party unity. Its as if we the american public are only supposed to be concerned with the hilary-crats.<br><br>::<br><br>This is the first time I've read this anywhere and it needs to be repeated over and over and over and over....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_02:20:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CraigHickman", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1456002, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1468902": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I co-sign with you on this.  Just the mention of their names<br>makes my head hurt!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-15_09:18:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "jelana", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1468147, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1442279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hopefully, we won't have to hear about the Clintons any more after he wins.  Plus, this is a WAY better option than them for VPs.  <br><br>What concerns me is this whole \"roll call\" vote thing.  I know she is trying to steal the spotlight, but is there a way she can steal the nomination as well?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_17:53:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "zulu426", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456109": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LOL!! Nope....but I'm sure they both got beat up a lot as children.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_19:47:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455926, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455602": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Don't you just love how these so called \"feminists\" forget all about Shirley Chisolm's historic run in favor of Hillary \"I Rode My Husband's Coattails\" Clinton?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_18:51:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sepia", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 15, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455513, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1602324": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ain't it the truth.  I am an older woman and I remember when this whole feminist thing really was going strong.  Went to a convention and the women of color had to stage a takeover to even be heard.  There was no sisterhood except to have your vote to further someone else for you to get behind.  Priority then became my concern.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-18_14:44:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "khrish", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1455602, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1456325": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This may have been the best Hardball show I've ever seen. It was truly beautiful.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_20:13:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c22bbad359677d681692848d5775fd8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 1456144, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1441276": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "<i>\"I want a winner, NOT a political martyr.\"</i><br><br>Good post B-Serious.  Wright had to slap Obama hard before O snapped out of the sentimental nonsense.  I'm trying not to second guess this, but I hope O doesn't have to learn that lesson again...more devastatingly this time.  There is such a thing as being too slick.  Sometimes visceral response is appropriate, and my gut tells me this woman needs to be cut off.  I don't know what O's gut is telling him.  Maybe he's ignoring it and thinking too much. <br><br>Well, we'll see.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-14_16:29:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sombody_took_my_username", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "1455102": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Leah:<br><br>The primaries were GREAT and we had two AWESOME candidates to choose from. But, and I hate to be blunt, it's over.  The people have spoken.  Let's move on to defeating John McCain.  All of this  \"Back down Memory Lane\" (I forgot who sang that jam!) stuff is distracting.  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	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=who8217s_convention_is_this_anyways_72' +
		'&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/who8217s_convention_is_this_anyways_72/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='	+ 'who8217s_convention_is_this_anyways_72'
			+ '&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/who8217s_convention_is_this_anyways_72/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) ?
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	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
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	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
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	 </span>\
	 </div>\
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	 <p><a href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:2950583" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">You must log into your Disqus Profile in order to post comments.</a></p>\
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	this.footer = function() {
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			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
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	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>\
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			';
		}
		
		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/who8217s_convention_is_this_anyways_72/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;
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		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>';
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					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:2950583" 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 ' \
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				<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"> \
							 \
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								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
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									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
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						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
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	//
	// 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'				: 'who8217s_convention_is_this_anyways_72',
			// 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/who8217s_convention_is_this_anyways_72/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='	+ 'who8217s_convention_is_this_anyways_72'
			+ '&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='	+ 'who8217s_convention_is_this_anyways_72'
			+ '&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='		+ 'who8217s_convention_is_this_anyways_72'
				+ '&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/2950583/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) {
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441032" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441032" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441032">Jay</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441032" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441032" class="dsq-comment-message">B-Serious is on fiyah today! I said the same thing when I first saw this on CNN. Str8 bullshyt!<br><br>I don\'t see why those 18 Million supporters just don\'t offer up a $1 a piece so she can rid herself of that debt.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441357" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441357" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441357">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441357" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441357" class="dsq-comment-message">What?<br>Have her base, those hard-working white Americans pay off her debt?<br><br>Surely you jest!<br><br>Let the brother pay it off.<br><br>Remember, Hillary is entitled!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441646" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441646" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441646">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441646" class="dsq-comment-message">Admiral:   Wasn\'t that Father Pfleiger\'s MESSAGE??  "She\'s entitled. . . . .<br><br>Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!    Handkerchief please!!!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Actually, I enjoyed the SERMON!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1442020" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1442020" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1442020">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1442020" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1442020" class="dsq-comment-message">You\'re right.<br>I had forgotten about the Father.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1442148" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1442148" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1442148">Jay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1442148" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1442148" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL - yea yea, I\'ve heard it all before. She\'s entitled, being treated as a 2nd class citizen. Eat dirt!<br><br>Go ahead GreenLady - but no need to quote, its freeware.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441926" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441926" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441926">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441926" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441926" class="dsq-comment-message">jay:  Love the STR8!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)    I\'ll quote you if I use it!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1440878" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1440878" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1440878">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1440878" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1440878" class="dsq-comment-message">Its supposed to be the Democratic National Convention....but its also the "appeasing whiny white women" convention as well.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1440929">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1440929" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1440929" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1440929" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1440929" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1440929" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>But I just don’t like it. I know the media wants to ignore this little fact, but Senator Clinton is NOT some type of co-nominee. SHE LOST .</b><br><br>This reminds me of "The Apprentice" when the Randall guy won, fair and square. Didn\'t Trump ask him to "share" his award with the loser? And wasn\'t Randall criticized as "selfish" when he refused?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441335" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441335" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441335">Miranda</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441335" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441335" class="dsq-comment-message">YEP!! I remember and I remember Randall looking like "you got me mixed up with someone else"....and there were whiny people upset about that too.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441409" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441409" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1441409" href="http://55secretstreet.typepad.com/anovelista/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Anovelista</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441409" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441409" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought so.  I also remember Randall being one of the most overqualified reality show contestants ever with like 5 degrees LOL!!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1467695" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1467695" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1467695" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1467695" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1467695" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!  Randall is the perfect analogy.  Anovelista is on point with that one!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441426">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441426" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441426" class="dsq-comment-message">YES! This is Randall Pinkett all over again, but at least Randall said, "HELL NO!" to the whiny Miss Ann, and kept it moving not giving a damn about what <i>they</i> said. Why couldn\'t Obama do the same? <br><br>I hope and pray that there is a method to this madness, because right now I am truly disappointed in the O man.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441605">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441605" class="dsq-comment-message">Miranda:   So THAT\'S what www. means:    Whiney   White   Women(period!)<br>I usta use Weak   White  Women.  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1440973">gaiilonfong</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1440973" class="dsq-comment-message">Hillpatine is just disgusting.......and her megalomaniac husband TOO!<br>Great Post...I think it IS time we ask Senator Obama "WHO\'S CONVENTION IT IS"........y\'all know the media especially Southern Strategy Buchannan and Joe dead intern Skankboro will make a big deal of it. Not only that the idiot DNC gave Miss Piggy Rove and Hannity credentials.....Damn they are stoopid!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441152" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441152" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1441152" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441152" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441152" class="dsq-comment-message">Thing is, Obama can\'t slam her without driving her base to the GOP. He-for better or worse-has to allow this to play out.<br><br>After accepting, though, Obama should put her in her place.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441302" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441302" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441302">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441302" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441302" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree wit h D.: Obama has to let this play out.<br><br>If Hillary runs for her seat again, I hope Obama has her number blocked.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1442200" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1442200" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1442200">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1442200" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1442200" class="dsq-comment-message">Yep.  BO is in a no-win situation here.  On the bright side there\'s the inevitable post-convention smackdown of Hill and Bill to look forward to.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456557" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456557" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1456557" href="http://dillarddoctrine.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">D.</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456557" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456557" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, but even then it can\'t be too hard of one.<br><br>The no-shit recalibration of Hillary will come when(if) Obama is elected.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441187" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441187" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441187">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441187" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441187" class="dsq-comment-message">"Please tell me . . . Just what. in. the. hell. . .has Hillary sacrificed for the sake of party unity?"<br><br>-Nothing.<br><br>Obama is the one who\'s supposed to sacrifice.<br><br>Obama is the one who is supposed to bow and scrape to Miss Ann.<br><br>It harkens back to the night when Obama won the delegate count; Miss Ann couldn\'t be gracious then, and once again, when Obama WILL be seen as the man chosen by the Democratic Party to be President of the United States, Hillary CANNOT be gracious.<br><br>I\'ll watch the Democratic Convention to see Michelle Obama.<br><br>I\'ll watch the Democratic Convention to see Barack Obama become the Democratic standard bearer for President of the United States oF America.<br><br>But I WILL NOT watch the Clintons.<br><br>To HELL with their entitled asses!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441276" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441276" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441276">TruthSeeker</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441276" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441276" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>"I want a winner, NOT a political martyr."</i><br><br>Good post B-Serious.  Wright had to slap Obama hard before O snapped out of the sentimental nonsense.  I\'m trying not to second guess this, but I hope O doesn\'t have to learn that lesson again...more devastatingly this time.  There is such a thing as being too slick.  Sometimes visceral response is appropriate, and my gut tells me this woman needs to be cut off.  I don\'t know what O\'s gut is telling him.  Maybe he\'s ignoring it and thinking too much. <br><br>Well, we\'ll see.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1466184" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1466184" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1466184" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1466184" class="dsq-comment-message">Hear, hear.<br><br>I\'ve been troubled by this announcement all day. Had to go drive to the Bar Harbor. Climb atop Mount Desert Island. See heaven close  up and personal. Treat myself to some lobster and blueberry pie. <br><br>And I\'m still reeling.<br><br>I hope the MY gut is wrong, wrong, wrong.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441395">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441395" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m just thinking Obama knows something the rest of us don\'t and has something in store for Billary when they get out of line.   The Convention will be the Obama show -- he\'s going to let it become the Billary show which is probably why you\'re hearing so much whining about.  Obama is increasingly striking me as someone who goes "Yeah, yeah, mmm-hmmm, I understand how you feel, I know where you\'re coming from, hug it out, k?" but goes and does what he wants to after you\'re all cried out.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441514">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441514" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441514" class="dsq-comment-message">"He\'s not going to let it be the Billary show, I mean."  I think by the end of the convention everyone will be saying "Hillary who?" except the PUMAs who weren\'t going to be placated no matter what.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441665">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441665" class="dsq-comment-message">Town:   I\'m believin\' with you!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456727">Honey01</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456727" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456727" class="dsq-comment-message">who?" except the PUMAs who weren\'t going to be placated no matter what.<br><br><br>See, that\'s what I am talking about. Those hard core women who were jumping up and down like raving lunatics talking about "inadequate males" or  that would stay home...they had no intention of voting for Obama. I don\'t care what kind of catharis BS goes down. THEY ARE NOT VOTING FOR THE BLACK MAN. <br><br>Now, a good majority of her "18 million voters", were going for Obama without her help. It\'s those crazy heffas you just got to write off.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1458885" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1458885" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1458885">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1458885" class="dsq-comment-message">Honey01:  CO-SIGNING BIG TIME!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1464577" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1464577" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1464577">msmartin</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1464577" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1464577" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ve been thinking since I heard the news that he has a reason for doing this.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1465130" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1465130" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1465130">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1465130" class="dsq-comment-message">msmartin:  I\'m thinkin\' this 2!    He can play chess!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1466302" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1466302" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1466302">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1466302" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1466302" class="dsq-comment-message">Town, me too. But O is so conciliatory. He turns the other cheek @ every turn. Thats why its hard for me to understand how (white) people don\'t see him as being christian. He is truly a peace seeker.<br><br>I hope he has an ace up his sleeve, but even if he has it, I\'m not convinced that he\'ll use it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1471169" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1471169" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1471169">enviro</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1471169" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1471169" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh I hope he has one, and will use it.  But I fear the issue is that he feels he does need those votes.  If she wanted to put a stop to this nonsense about walking out of the convention, etc., she could have (would just have taken some phone calls), but she didn\'t.  Don\'t forget, she\'s a fighter, and she\'s fighting this one all right! I hope he\'s not misunderestimating the Clintons.  If she can swing it at the convention, she will.  But I don\'t think she can.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441401" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441401" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441401">rikyrah</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441401" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441401" class="dsq-comment-message"><b><br>"Please tell me . . . Just what. in. the. hell. . .has Hillary sacrificed for the sake of party unity?"</b><br><br>To be honest, B, THIS should have been the title of this post. <br><br>She ain\'t sacrificed SHIT.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1459042" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1459042" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1459042">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1459042" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1459042" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah:  BUT, ya got ta give billary some credit - - SHE IS FULL OF IT!!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441459" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441459" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441459">rikyrah</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441459" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441459" class="dsq-comment-message">Had to add this B, <br><br>She may think she\'s slick, but guess who\'s slicker? <br><br>Black folk. <br><br>Black folk were the reason her ass didn\'t win in 2008. <br><br>She pulled this bullshit and thinks that we\'ll kiss and makeup for 2012. <br><br>Now, I might not be a lot of things, and I know I don\'t know everything, <br><br>But, I know Black folk. <br><br>Riddle me this, B. <br><br>Do you think WE\'LL kiss and makeup by 2012? <br><br>My answer begins with HELL and ends with NO.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441501" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441501" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441501">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441501" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441501" class="dsq-comment-message">I know that\'s right, rikyrah!<br><br>I will never, EVER forget or forgive the Clintons for the crap they have pulled and continue to pull. They went from friends in my head to Public Enemy #1 and #1 1/2.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441707" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441707" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441707">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441707" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia:  In NyC, a sign was posted re: 9-1-1 - "We\'ll Never Forget!"<br><br>Billary/bill:  WE\'LL NEVER FORGET!!!!  :&gt;)<br><br>Payback is a fathermother!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1442219" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1442219" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1442219">MsKitty</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1442219" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1442219" class="dsq-comment-message">Honestly I\'m surprised Bill hasn\'t been run out of Harlem with pitchforks and torches yet.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1442260" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1442260" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1442260">angee</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1442260" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1442260" class="dsq-comment-message">I was just saying the same thing to my sister. Harlem needs to make it EXTREMELY uncomfortable for bill to go to work. Then they need to get rid of rangel\'s old ass!!!!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455712" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455712">Admiral_Komack</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455712" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455712" class="dsq-comment-message">You know what the MSM would say:<br><br>"Oh, my God, they\'re rioting!"<br><br>"It\'s Rodney King all over again!"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1468147" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1468147" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1468147" href="http://www.reachblack.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">B-Serious</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1468147" class="dsq-comment-message">rikyrah, <br><br>I hope people don\'t kiss and make up.  Hillary has been sabotaging this election ever since she lost all mathematical significance after losing Wisconsin in late Feb.  She\'s been moving goal posts and causing distractions ever since.<br><br>You know me.  I wanted to force her out of the race back in March.  She had no realistic shot once she missed her goals on March 4 (remember, she had to win BIG in OH <b>AND</b> TX  . . . she couldn\'t do it).<br><br>The Clintons have done everything to show people that they could care less what happens so long as they have the power.  We don\'t need that type of narrow-minded "leadership."<br><br>Bill and Hillary are placing their bets on the fact that 4 years is a long time and people have short memories.  But I just can\'t get over some of the things they did.  They need to go.  The Clinton fatigue needs to go.  And the Democratic party needs to stand up for itself.<br><br>Even more reason (if any were needed) to make sure we elect Obama as our next President of the United States.  Besides being the best option, he brings the added bonus of ENDING the Clinton reign.  Trust, the Clintons know it\'s GAME OVER once Obama wins in November.  They are desperate and doing everything in their power to cause a distraction.<br><br>2012???  Well, I don\'t plan on a need for 2012 because we\'ll be busy working to RE-ELECT Obama to his second term as president.  But, hypothetically speaking (in my worst nightmare scenario), a 2012 Clinton run would have such a large "anybody but Clinton" vote, I doubt she\'d make it past the first few primaries.  She\'s burned too many bridges, and I wouldn\'t be surprised if she loses her seat in the senate to a strong challenger in 2010.<br><br>For real, I\'m tired of having to even think about the Clintons anymore.  They are walking, talking, self-serving (if I can\'t have it, no one can) DISTRACTIONS.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1468902" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1468902" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1468902">jelana</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1468902" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1468902" class="dsq-comment-message">I co-sign with you on this.  Just the mention of their names<br>makes my head hurt!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1487182" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1487182" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1487182" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1487182" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1487182" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually, her senate seat is through to 2012 as well.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441465" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441465">Sepia</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441465" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441465" class="dsq-comment-message">Question: Has there been a roll call at EVERY Democratic convention? <br><br>I swear, this whole situation really pissed me off! The more I think about it, the madder I get.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441491" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441491" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441491">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441491" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441491" class="dsq-comment-message">MSNBC\'s First Read says that Hillary will cast her superdelegate vote for Obama.<br><br><a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/14/1266073.aspx#comments" rel="nofollow">http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/...</a></div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441513" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441513" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441513">ioa</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441513" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441513" class="dsq-comment-message">"Who’s Convention is This Anyways???"<br><br>Whose convention is this? It is the Democrats\' convention, and Hillary has not lost until the votes are tabulated and announced. I may not like it either but that\'s the facts.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441744" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441744" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441744">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441744" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441744" class="dsq-comment-message">ioa:  I\'m going to begin with  -  <br>Whew!  Edumencated Deep Breaths!!!!<br><br>Did anyone ELSE NOT know this??   :&gt;)<br><br>I\'m jes askin\' . . .  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1442043" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1442043" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1442043">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1442043" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1442043" class="dsq-comment-message">Its also a fact that if the situation were reversed, we wouldn\'t even be discussing this.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441870" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441870" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441870">Redstar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441870" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441870" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a tradition at every convention.  Jesse Jackson had his named placed in nomination, as did Ted Kennedy (1980), the 2 examples I see come up most frequently.<br><br>Honestly, it would have been a departure from tradition had this not occurred.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441951" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441951" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441951">Morediva</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441951" class="dsq-comment-message">and both the democratic candidates who were the nominees those years LOST the presidential election.<br><br>I\'m not sure this is the tradition to follow. LOL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1441975" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1441975" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1441975">Redstar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1441975" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1441975" class="dsq-comment-message">True, but again, I think this is something that\'s done at everyone, incl. in 2004 (d\'oh!  another bad example...although, we haven\'t exactly been the winning party in the last sixty years...)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1442053" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1442053">Morediva</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1442053" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1442053" class="dsq-comment-message">I think its exactly why following tradition doesn\'t work for the democrats...cuz the democratic party\'s tradition includes losing repeatedly. <br><br>There\'s no reason for this, particularly given her refusal to concede on the night he clinched, or the next week...or realistically ever since.  There\'s simply no reason for every Clinton in the family to be speaking at the convention (cuz I\'m sure they\'ll let Chelsea intro one of them, lol) when they lost. And I honestly felt like they forced their way into the speaking roles and this roll call. It wasn\'t offered in a magnanimous gesture - it was forcing Obama\'s back against the wall and leaving him without an option to tell her losing behind to go somewhere and sit down without jeopardizing his chances.<br><br>Frankly, I want there to be a roll call and only 1 state calls her name. That won\'t look too historic and will show the true nature of her arrogance run amok. I\'m beyond wanting her to disappear for awhile. I want her embarassed nationally at this point. I want them to call out her name and there be dead silence. LOL! <br><br>Maybe then she will truly understand that she lost. Some of her supporters I dont think will ever let it go, and Obama\'s gonna have to write them off..because he can\'t keep bending over backwards to try to get them on board when they clearly are not trying to be democrats, but hilary-crats. He\'ll start to look weak.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1442268" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1442268" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1442268">Redstar</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1442268" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1442268" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t agree with this perspective at all. I think it\'s important that her name be put into rollcall and I also believe it would reflect poorly on Obama as the winning nominee if this tradition were abandoned, particularly since both were historic candidacies (Shirley Chisholm and Jesse Jackson, notwithstanding; Chisholm\'s name was also entered into roll call.)<br><br>Clinton has certainly been more gracious about Obama\'s win than many of her supporters and surrogates (as a superdel, she will be voting for Obama), but I think that it\'s important to recognize the 18 million votes and 1800-odd delegates she received in a very exciting primary between two excellent candidates.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456002" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456002" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456002">Morediva</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456002" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456002" class="dsq-comment-message">here\'s what I don\'t get...why is it more important to recognize the alleged 18 million votes (since many of the caucus states didn\'t have to report their numbers, we have no idea who actually got the most votes and I\'ve never understood why we should count Puerto Rico, lol) for the person who lost, versus recognizing and celebrating the alleged 18 million votes made for the person who WON and had the most delegates?<br><br>Since when has any political convention needed to concern itself with assuaging the egos and hopes of the person who lost in this manner? You dang sure didn\'t see the Dubya and Cheney giving much respect to McCain at the repiublican convention in 2000....and we never saw people demanding that other losing democratic candidates be allowed to have their canddiates acknowledged and their votes and delegates celebrated?<br><br>Are also going to have a moment for John Edwards populist war on poverty platform? Are Richardson, Dodd, Clark, and  Kucinich also going to be allowed to demand concessions in the official party platform? Demand prime speaking times? Demand that Obama and Hilary raise money to pay their debts? Oh that\'s right..I forgot Richardson was already holding fundraisers to help Hillary, even though he still had serious campaign debts of his own to pay.<br><br>I was watching Hardball and they noted that it has been 16 years since a losing candidate put his name on the nomination ballot - jerry brown did it to Bill  in 1992 and Billary was ticked at the time. My how times have changed. <br><br>I don\'t understand how continuously and repeatedly ignoring and shoving aside the voters who supported Obama is a good move for party unity. Its as if we the american public are only supposed to be concerned with the hilary-crats. <br><br>And if they don\'t know it yet..if Obama loses because of their machinations, its not like Bill or Hillary will escape from that unscathed. <br><br>The idea that unless these odler white women are pacified and soothed, that nothing can ever happen is beyond insulting to people who are true democrats - the ones who actually have read their platforms and know that both hilary and barack are 98% the same in terms of their policies. So anyone who suppoted Hilary that seriously is going to vote for McCain since she didn\'t win - has elevated hilary over the democratic party.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1466339" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1466339" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1466339" href="http://craighickman.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">CraigHickman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1466339" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t understand how continuously and repeatedly ignoring and shoving aside the voters who supported Obama is a good move for party unity. Its as if we the american public are only supposed to be concerned with the hilary-crats.<br><br>::<br><br>This is the first time I\'ve read this anywhere and it needs to be repeated over and over and over and over....</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1468065" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1468065" href="http://grahamad.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Redstar</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1468065" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1468065" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s a lot more than older, white women who supported Clinton.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455070" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455070" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455070">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455070" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455070" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>Clinton has certainly been more gracious about Obama\'s win than many of her supporters and surrogates (as a superdel, she will be voting for Obama),</b><br><br>Yeah, she was so gracious that on the night that Obama officially became the nominee, she and her camp had her supporters in Baruch College\'s BASEMENT sans any access to the media and gave a speech about how the race wasn\'t over. <br><br>Yeah.....gracious.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455553" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455553">Jay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455553" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455553" class="dsq-comment-message">Not just that night, but how many nights thereafter before she "suspended" her campaign. Real classy Billary, real gracious.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1455650">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455650" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455650" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1455650" href="http://grahamad.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Redstar</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455650" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455650" class="dsq-comment-message">Again, the majority of contenders do not suspend their campaigns on that night.  Why people expected this when it has not been demanded of other competitors in the past seems like a double standard.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1459385" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1459385" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1459385">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1459385" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1459385" class="dsq-comment-message">Redstar:  Specific EVIDENCE???</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1468062" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1468062" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1468062" href="http://grahamad.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Redstar</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1468062" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1468062" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s one post from TPM about this: <br><a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/06/hysteria-aside-hillary-clinton.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1463414">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1463414" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1463414" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1463414">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1463414" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1463414" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeah, but they also don\'t have themselves announced as the next President of the United States when they concede, either.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1466241" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1466241" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1466241">Teacher</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1466241" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1466241" class="dsq-comment-message">The 18 million vote thing is pure, unadulterated, 100% clinton spin. This # includes the Florida and Michigan votes which should not count & which did not count, but she counted them anyway. She said it over and over until it caught on,now people talk about it like it\'s a fact or something. SHE DIDN\'T GET 18 MILLION VOTES! Please don\'t collude in perpetuating this falsehood.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1601956" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1601956" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1601956">khrish</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1601956" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1601956" class="dsq-comment-message">AMEN! i am sick of hearing this crap echoing.  We really don\'t even know how many of those votes that she did get were from games played by the Repubs.   Anyhow, she did not win! and I am pretty sick of her games.  We are in a rough race here and to use game plays at this point.  I have to trust that this whole thing will backfire because she has some really stupid supporters who don\'t care if we lose as long as she is not the candidate. I just feel this is a dangerous game that\'s being played here at a most crucial time. I had always heard that the Clintons were like this but I never believed it before and now I have been shown that they will do anything to win.  They are exactly the way Father Pleger portrayed them in his video.....Like it or not......he was right on target.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455767" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455767">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455767" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455767" class="dsq-comment-message">"I\'m beyond wanting her to disappear for awhile. I want her embarassed nationally at this point. I want them to call out her name and there be dead silence. LOL! "<br><br>-I\'ll do you one better:<br>"I\'m beyond wanting her to disappear for awhile. I want her embarassed nationally at this point. I want them to call out her name and one person says, "Who?"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1465792" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1465792" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1465792">Baba</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1465792" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1465792" class="dsq-comment-message">Redstar, you\'re mistaken. In 2004, Kerry won nearly 99% of the roll call vote. (The only other name on the ballot was Kucinich\'s). In 2000, Gore won 100%. As far as I can remember, the last time there was anything vaguely resembling a serious roll call challenge was in 1988,  when Jackson, like Clinton, had his name placed in nomination in order to give supporters a "voice at the convention". The difference is that Jackson\'s supporters actually had something to say. Jackson\'s platform was distinctly different from Dukakis\' on a number of important issues, and Jackson used the roll call vote as leverage to get some of his positions integrated into the Democratic platform. Since Clinton and Obama\'s platforms are basically the same, all her roll call \'voice\' will be saying is, "Look at me!"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1468005" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1468005" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1468005" href="http://grahamad.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Redstar</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1468005" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1468005" class="dsq-comment-message">Baba,<br><br>There we will have to disagree.  As a former supporter, I find that Clinton has plenty to say and represent.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1468073" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1468073" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1468073" href="http://grahamad.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Redstar</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1468073" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1468073" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s my understanding Edwards\' name was entered into rollcall and he released his delegates to Kerry at the convention.  I could be wrong, and don\'t have time to google this right now, but that\'s my recollection.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1442279" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1442279" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1442279">zulu426</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1442279" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1442279" class="dsq-comment-message">Hopefully, we won\'t have to hear about the Clintons any more after he wins.  Plus, this is a WAY better option than them for VPs.  <br><br>What concerns me is this whole "roll call" vote thing.  I know she is trying to steal the spotlight, but is there a way she can steal the nomination as well?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1442313" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1442313" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1442313">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1442313" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1442313" class="dsq-comment-message">UMMMMM!   Mr. Obama SPEAKS AFTER billary and bill!!!!<br><br>PAYBACK [albeit very smooth and  well-delivered] IS going to be a CUTTING, GNASHING, EYEBALL- SCRATCHING OUT fathermother!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Pass the popcorn, the pretzels, and the diet cola[my preference :&gt;)   :&gt;)]!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I\'m so  going to be listening for the myriad of well-delivered BEAT DOWNS and DISSES!!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1443383" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1443383" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1443383">zulu426</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1443383" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1443383" class="dsq-comment-message">Is there some arcane DNC rule or regulation or less-than-well-meaning committee that can render her the nomination at this point?  I\'m worried that all of this Clinton celebration has some sinister purpose.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1453250" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1453250" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1453250">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1453250" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1453250" class="dsq-comment-message">zulu426:  "SINISTER"<br>1.   Comes from an archaic term meaning "TO THE LEFT/left hand side.<br><br>2.  There is a song that begins   "TO THE LEFT!   TO THE LEFT!"  Everything you own is in the box to the left.[Beyonce :&gt;) ]<br><br>3.  billary/bill\'s box is  -  drum roll, please -   TO THE LEFT!!!<br><br>They will be kicked to the curb in due time!!  :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;) <br><br>NOT TA WORRY!!!    :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>I really need ta go see my mom.!!! My brain is getting blown out!!!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456055" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456055" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456055">jelana</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456055" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456055" class="dsq-comment-message">The Superdelegates control the nomination.  They would be the ones that would have to overturn it.  That won\'t happen.  They don\'t want to lose!  I agree with others here.<br>I wish they would say "Hillary Who"  when the roll call is taken!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1450552">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1450552" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1450552" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1450552">Leah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1450552" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1450552" class="dsq-comment-message">In case anyone has not noticed, the Democrats NEED<br>the Hilary supporters to vote for Obama.  Without them<br>Obama will LOSE.   So Obama is doing what any politician does to win -<br>acknowledge that he had competition.  It is not only the right <br>thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.   <br><br>As woman of COLOR , I wanted the roll call for Hillary.  She is the only<br>woman ever to campaign in all 50 states.     The roll call for Hillary<br>is for me and all American women everywhere.   <br><br>It is not about whining - 18 million votes need to acknowledged.<br>That is the purpose of the roll call.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455513" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455513" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455513">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455513" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455513" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s nice, but Shirley Chisolm spoke for me in \'72...I don\'t begrudge Hillary the roll call vote, but if any shenanigans go down, her career is over.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455602" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455602" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455602">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455602" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455602" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t you just love how these so called "feminists" forget all about Shirley Chisolm\'s historic run in favor of Hillary "I Rode My Husband\'s Coattails" Clinton?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1455892">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455892" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455892" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455892">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455892" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455892" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh isn\'t it amazing? Gee, you\'d think Hillary had risen to her position as a Senator all on her own instead of actually moving to a state where she knew she could win right away and those pesky residency requirements wouldn\'t be a burden, and purposefully putting in her 8 senatorial years in order to run for Bill\'s third term. Being a former first lady really does have its priviledges.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455946" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455946" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455946">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455946" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455946" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey now!<br><br>She\'s entitled.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1463115">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1463115" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1463115" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1463115">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1463115" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1463115" class="dsq-comment-message">But you know what?<br><br>We wouldn\'t be talking about Barack Obama if she had taken her pantsuits and skipped back to her home state, ILLINOIS.<br><br>Ironic, isn\'t it?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1464209" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1464209" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1464209">Lilytiger</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1464209" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1464209" class="dsq-comment-message">One more time, you are on fire!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1464216" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1464216" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1464216">Lilytiger</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1464216" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1464216" class="dsq-comment-message">Finally decided to claim my name and it was too short, this is Lily.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1466108" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1466108" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1466108">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1466108" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1466108" class="dsq-comment-message">Another bit of history that craig hickman always points out:<br><br>in 2000, of ALLL the Congressional Races for a PRESIDENT to stick his nose in...<br><br>Bubba put him thumb on the scale FOR Bobby Rush AGAINST Barack Obama. <br><br>Payback is a mutha.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455899" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455899" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455899">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455899" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455899" class="dsq-comment-message">Can you imagine Shirley Chisolm pulling the shit that Billary is?<br>Nope.<br>Because the Democratic Party would have shut her down quick, fast, and in a hurry.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456077" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456077" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456077">jelana</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456077" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456077" class="dsq-comment-message">Unfortunately, Barack has to do this because<br>Barack is Black.  There is no other choice for<br>him.  We all KNOW the drill.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456362" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456362" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456362">Teacher</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456362" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456362" class="dsq-comment-message">I disagree. He needs to tell them to kiss his black ass. He needs to call their bluff and stop letting them manipulate and intimidate him. The Clintons have SHOWN us all what they are about. They are liars and are not to be trusted. I agree with B Serious. If you give them a bean, they want the whole pot. When you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Its time for O to just say no.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1470847" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1470847" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1470847">enviro</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1470847" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1470847" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m very curious about that -- whether people think this.  I am very concerned that this move makes him look weak.  I know people are saying actually it\'s a sign of strength, and I get that interpretation, but it seems off to me.  He really should have stood up to them on this one, (please SPARE me the BS about HRC not wanting this but needing to do it for her supporters) but I wonder whether as a black man he has found confrontation to really not be a good plan?  Mind you I\'m white (and female) so I lack some inside perspective on this.  I recall as well during the primaries him not attacking her and people saying he really couldn\'t or he\'d look like OJ. :P  I know it\'s also his style ("disagree w/o being disagreeable"), but is it in part his style because of his dealing with being a black candidate seeking statewide/nationwide office?<br><br>BTW on the merits I couldn\'t agree more that this is a huge problem.  We are going to look divided right up to the last minute.  She should have released her delegates and told them to support BHO at the building museum, for heaven\'s sake.  Nice words she said there, but as some perceptive person I spoke to at the time said, why didn\'t she release her delegates -- what game is she playing?  Now we know.  You think it ends here?  Keep your hand on your wallet and your eyes on your back, Sen. Obama.  But if she thinks by helping McCain win she is helping herself -- which is the only explanation that makes any sense, really -- she is delusional.  She is simply NEVER going to be president.  But I guess she wants her moment behind the podium.  It\'s really unbelievable.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1458658" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1458658" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1458658">nickwah22</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1458658" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1458658" class="dsq-comment-message">Think how fast they would shut Michelle Obama down if she ever tried to run for POTUS after gaining "experience" as \'wifey\' while Barack was in office..</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1462981" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1462981" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1462981">Town</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1462981" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1462981" class="dsq-comment-message">As a "woman of Color" if Shirley Chisholm had refused to leave the stage they would have shut her down so quickly...<br><br>We need to have a political version of Sandman to sweep Bill and Hillary off the stage if they get out of control at the convention.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1466105" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1466105" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1466105">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1466105" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1466105" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, Admiral, it is very curious. Politicians clearly fear the clintons. There was a list circulating several months ago itemizing the deaths of very many people who have been affiliated with them. And then, a campaign manager from Arkansas was SHOT AND KILLED just yesterday. It was a very small story in the media, but he should probably be added to their list. It seems like a cover up. No one said why he was shot (at the campaign office), who shot him or any details. If the truth be known, they probably sent O his finger yesterday so her name could be added into nomination today.<br><br>Bill is a lobbyist for Columbia and Kazakhstan. God only knows who else. We can\'t find out because the $ goes into off shore accounts. He is the REAL manchurian candidate. Why else would politicians fear him as they do?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456303" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456303" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456303">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456303" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456303" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia/miranda:   Love the "imagery"  - "I Rode my husband\'s coattails"!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)<br><br>Thank you on the SHIRLEY CHISOLM!!!  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1602324" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1602324" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1602324">khrish</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1602324" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1602324" class="dsq-comment-message">Ain\'t it the truth.  I am an older woman and I remember when this whole feminist thing really was going strong.  Went to a convention and the women of color had to stage a takeover to even be heard.  There was no sisterhood except to have your vote to further someone else for you to get behind.  Priority then became my concern.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1466031" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1466031" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1466031">Teacher</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1466031" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1466031" class="dsq-comment-message">She is one of my sheroes. I keep a laminated picture of her in my classroom. Students ask me if she is my granny :).</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1455581">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455581" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455581" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455581">Sepia</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455581" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455581" class="dsq-comment-message"><b>As woman of COLOR , I wanted the roll call for Hillary. She is the only<br>woman ever to campaign in all 50 states. The roll call for Hillary<br>is for me and all American women everywhere. </b><br><br>No, the roll call is for the egos of Hillary and her WHITE sistren everywhere. They ain\'t thinking about women of color. PERIOD.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456335" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456335" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456335">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456335" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456335" class="dsq-comment-message">Sepia:  "As a woman of color" - she speaks like a woman of WHITE!! [with apologies to those who support Mr. Obama]<br><br>Whew!  Exasperated Deep Breaths!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455807" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455807" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455807">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455807" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455807" class="dsq-comment-message">Bullshit.<br><br>It\'s about, "I\'m entitled and HE took it from me!"<br>"IT WAS MY TURN!"</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1458247" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1458247" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1458247">nickwah22</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1458247" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1458247" class="dsq-comment-message">A political race should not be about stroking one\'s ego.  Hillary Clinton has made this race about her, not what she can do for the American people or the Democratic party.  I won\'t even talk about how ridiculous I thought her run for the presidency was.<br><br>If she has conceded and formally asked her supporters to back Obama, why does the DNC need to give her another national stage to do so?  She bowed out in June; how many times since then has she campaigned with Obama?  What has she done to help bring in money to Obama\'s campaign that wasn\'t going to benefit her also.<br><br>Why does he have to bend over backward to please her and she seems to be plotting to jump right back in to this race because HER supposed 18 million supporters want their voice (that happens to be chanting Hillary\'s name) heard?  If she truly wanted to support Obama and the Democratic Party she would be campaigning much harder for our hopeful POTUS.<br><br>hypocrite she is.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1460363" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1460363" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1460363">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1460363" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1460363" class="dsq-comment-message">Nicole:  And SHE IS:  an egoist, egomaniac, narcissist; SELF: absorbed, centered, inbvolved, obsessed, seeking, and serving;   selfish,  conceited!<br><br>And -  a self-centered person with little regard for others!!<br><br>And those are her better points!   :&gt;)    :&gt;)    :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1462722">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1462722" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1462722" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1462722">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1462722" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1462722" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s like she\'s the political version of Norma Desmond...<br><br>"DNC, I\'m ready for my close up."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1466079" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1466079" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1466079">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1466079" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1466079" class="dsq-comment-message">Norma Desmond?<br><br><br>BWA HA H AH HA HA HA<br><br><br>Yep.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1462498" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1462498" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1462498">Town</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1462498" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1462498" class="dsq-comment-message">So should the Republicans who crossed over to vote for Obama or Clinton be acknowledged, too?<br><br><br>The number of Hillary supporters who refuse to vote for Obama are very small.  Even if Hillary had never run this year, and Obama had, those people never would have voted for Obama and it\'s high time that people wrap their minds around that.<br><br>You claim that Obama needs to acknowledge that he had competition -- he has.  The question is, "Will Bill and Hillary Clinton and their stans acknowledge they got beaten FAIR AND SQUARE, by the rules THEY SET UP THEMSELVES?"<br><br>As a woman of COLOR, I need for Hillary and her whiny ass supporters to get on the Obama train or get left at the station.  I straight up don\'t care about Hillary and her 18 million supporters needing to be recognized and for this to be recorded for history, ESPECIALLY when Hillary and her supporters, on OBAMA\'s historic night, felt no need to acknowledge HIM.  She made HIS HISTORIC NIGHT ALL ABOUT HER.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1464188" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1464188">Lily</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1464188" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1464188" class="dsq-comment-message">Town, you have been on fire tonight. Word to all of it!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1466003" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1466003">Teacher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1466003" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1466003" class="dsq-comment-message">Town, I agree with everything you wrote.  Let me also add that the response to this pressure is setting a negative & dangerous precedent. The crazies are going to think that O is going to bend over everytime they exert a little pressure on him. If they can run the campaign, they are going to believe they can run the white house. The media is their media and, trust me, Hillary is going to use it to show him to be incompetent for the next 4 years. If she doesn\'t challenge him in 2012, as is her obvious plan, I\'ll eat my hat. He should\'ve stepped to them a long time ago, and he\'d be getting more respect today.<br><br>I understand that he is an easy going, non-confrontational guy, but there is a time for everything. I know he thinks he is above a certain mentality, but I hope he doesn\'t totally miscalculate the psyche of the american people. Americans like their leaders to exhibit a certain amount of toughness. Am I wrong? That was one reason why hillary gained momentum as her (low down, dirty) campaign progressed. The media was regularly talking about her having the balls to be CIC. We elect actors that play cowboys or people from Maine that pretend to be cowboys. And if Arnold were eligible, he\'d be a shoe in. If he doesn\'t man up, he is going to give the presidency to the cryptkeeper.<br><br>BSerious, I implore you to send a copy of your essay to the Obama campaign.<br><br> I hope this will be his final concession. I hope he will cancel bill\'s speech. Bill is probably asking for a speaking fee. I got his speaking fee right here.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1466071" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1466071" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1466071">rikyrah</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1466071" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1466071" class="dsq-comment-message">Town,<br><br>co-sign.<br><br>co-sign.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1467681" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1467681" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1467681">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1467681" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1467681" class="dsq-comment-message">Co-sign!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1602255" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1602255" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1602255">khrish</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1602255" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1602255" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen! As a woman of color I noticed that Hillary stopped speaking to me "as a woman of color" her last speeches were to "white blue collar folk"  which left out "women of color"   Isn\'t that what you heard or did you sleep that one?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455102" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455102" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455102">zulu426</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455102" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455102" class="dsq-comment-message">Leah:<br><br>The primaries were GREAT and we had two AWESOME candidates to choose from. But, and I hate to be blunt, it\'s over.  The people have spoken.  Let\'s move on to defeating John McCain.  All of this  "Back down Memory Lane" (I forgot who sang that jam!) stuff is distracting.  Like the Isley Brother\'s said we "got work to do.............."  :)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1456275">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456275" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456275" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-1456275" href="http://glory-i-am.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">glory</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456275" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456275" class="dsq-comment-message">I think it was Minnie Riperton.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456358" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456358" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456358">GreenLadyHere</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456358" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456358" class="dsq-comment-message">zulu426:  Aren\'t song titles expressive!!   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)  Now, where\'s my MP3 playlist?   :&gt;)  :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455863" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455863" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455863">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455863" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455863" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG.....did anyone just see that segment on Hardball with the two nuts that refuse to support Barack Obama and are in some sort of freaky parallel universe where everyone is against Hillary?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1455926" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1455926" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1455926">Admiral_Komack</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1455926" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1455926" class="dsq-comment-message">I have to ask...were either of them wearing a beard? :-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456109" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456109" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456109">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456109" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456109" class="dsq-comment-message">LOL!! Nope....but I\'m sure they both got beat up a lot as children.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456172" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456172" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456172">Teacher</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456172" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456172" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes! Thank goodness David Shuster played hardball with them. David made them look dumb.<br><br>David is talking to 2 pundits right now (Michelle Bernard & another guy-Del Walters) who are exposing the clintons, but unfortunately the analysis is making O look like a pussy (sorry to go there, but I have to get it off my chest).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456300" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456300" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456300">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456300" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456300" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG....Shuster made them look like COMPLETE IDIOTS. That was sheer comedy!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456144" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456144" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456144">Jay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456144" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456144" class="dsq-comment-message">OMG I\'m loving the 2nd portion of Harball (Politics fix)...they are saving EVERYTHING B-Serious just said!!!!!!<br><br>Please tell me ya\'ll are watching this.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1456325" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1456325" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1456325">Miranda</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1456325" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1456325" class="dsq-comment-message">This may have been the best Hardball show I\'ve ever seen. It was truly beautiful.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1467670" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1467670" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1467670">Sepia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1467670" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1467670" class="dsq-comment-message">Dangit! I missed it! Is it available online?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1457272" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1457272" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1457272">nickwah22</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1457272" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1457272" class="dsq-comment-message">Does anyone know if the DNC will be televised live?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1457366" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1457366" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1457366">nickwah22</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1457366" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1457366" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe it\'s just me, but why is this so historic? Because she she was the first woman to lose the least?  If she is so for the party being unified and moving on then why is she putting her name on the ballot?  She is "putting batteries in these peoples\' backs!"<br><br>It always seems like Obama has to appease everyone, Hillary, Bill, McCain, McCain\'s Crackhead-ish wife.  Why does it matter what Hillary wants?  She lost!  She admitted defeat, so why does she continue?  I do not respect her or her husband and personally do not think the DNC should even entertain the idea of these people wasting good primetime slots to speak more of their backwoods political beliefs.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1463180" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1463180">GreenLadyHere</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1463180" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1463180" class="dsq-comment-message">Well!  Well!  Well!  Look -a- here!   Look-a-here!<br><br><a href="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mccain_recycling_hillarys_old.php" rel="nofollow">http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...</a><br><br>McCain Recycling Hillary\'s Old Campaign Stuff!<br><br>Is there anyone surprised at this???  Billary knew that she was doing this for 2 reasons:<br><br>1.  It would be a way of extending the primaries.  She Knew that the GOP/RNC would use her stuff BECAUSE she use[use to you say?] to be ONE OF THEM - A Goldwater Girl!!<br><br>2.  She and "McAncient" were more than friends!  and, he didn\'t have the grey matter to do this without plagiarizing billary\'s stuff.<br><br>The "Comparison Chart" is huge!!  :&gt;)   :&gt;)   <br><br>Can anyone ADD more??<br><br>JJP would this make for a thread??  I\'m jes askin\'   :&gt;)   :&gt;)   :&gt;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1468170">\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1468170" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1468170">Quanli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1468170" class="dsq-comment-message">There comes a time when it has to be understand your enemies will not fight for you and this is one of those times. She can have the roll call, Bill can say his peace BUT none of that should be done in the vein of "I need these votes" because the die-hards are just that. They will pull the lever for McCain out of spite. The rest, who are concerned for the best choice for this country, will leave the ride or die mentality at the door.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1601600">Khrish</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1601600" class="dsq-comment-message">I totally agree with the article.  I am so angry I could "spit".  I, like you, have to trust that Sen. Obama and his crew have the plans to make this backfire.  I am so sick of the Clintons that I will never, ever vote for either again.  This is the most immature action and childish game that I have seen in a long time.  How these BC can stand by and see this crap happen is inexcusable.  the Clintons need to be put in their place.  were the situation reversed, the DBC would be all up and in his business demanding that he back off.  This is not a Kingdom and Hillary and Bill are not royalty.  She lost, and she needs to act like she lost not that she is a co-president.  At a time like this when we are fighting to get rid of the Repubs. we don\'t need this kind of crap at the convention.  I am sick of the Clintons and all of their supporters.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1601743">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1601743" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1601743" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1601743">khrish</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1601743" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1601743" class="dsq-comment-message">I am so sick of the Clintons I don\'t know what to do.  They have adapted such an infantile mode of action it seems as if we are playing children\'s games.  I will be glad to see them just go away.  Change is the issue and that is what they don\'t want.  I don\'t think that Clinton is racist; I just think that he and his wife are sore losers.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-1440920">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-1440920" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-1440920" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-1440920">JibreelRiley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-1440920" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-1440920" class="dsq-comment-message">Dont worry, its all a scheme from those Evil Republicans via Karl Rove and Hallaburton</div>\
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