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Were you this upset when the incumbent mocked a death row inmate, or when a presidential candidate started singing about war?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_16:54:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "jefito", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2828381, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2828161": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "All right, you're talking about Allen, but you commented under jon, so we cleared that up that confusion. Now, who among us is crying for political correctness, again?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_16:41:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "mojo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2828113, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2825346": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I am uncomfortable with it too. Can't stand Palin, but WTF is she supposed to do? Deny his existence? Be more like a man and stuff the fam in the closet except at the debates and convention? As BIden put it last night, challenge the judgment and not the motivation. And I don't think there's any bad judgment on display here (except...am I the only one who thinks her daughter who always carries him around is a little small for the job? I hold my breath wondering if she's gonna topple right over carrying that kid...stairs have to be brutal! It'd be about like me carrying a Honda Civic around).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_14:21:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "mojo", "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": 2824283, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2833451": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Damn DW, is that what you want in your obit, death due to a spork? at least  bring out the silverware before you make a rash decision.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_20:03:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "Oldetymer", "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}, "2838021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Gwen did neither good nor bad. She was adequate, but in fairness, she did keep Palin's response times lower than Biden's. Some say that was a bias toward the Obama / Biden ticket but I disagree. If you really want to help the ticket, you keep the opponent rambling until they shatter. Ifill's interpreted \"help\" if it was intended completely backfired.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-04_08:23:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "DwDunphy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2834789, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2829062": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"may not have been the most elegant\"  Really?  C'mon.  You know as well as I do that it was deplorable.  And if it were reversed and Biden had a special needs kid and someone made the same comment everyone on this blog would be screaming bloody murder.<br><br>Hate her politics, don't be mean and say hateful things about things she can't control.  <br><br>Christ is there any civility left......", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:17:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b656cb115589bce80e6bf64d8b40ee3", "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": 2828539, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2872983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "For the record (and thanks to those that came to my defense) here's what I meant regarding the \"retardo-prop\" comment.<br>This is not how I refer to Trig. Nor is it how I imagine anyone else does, least of all that family.<br>However, the way they are treating Trig and his place in the campaign is as a prop. A \"disabled\" child. A \"special\" child. In the 70s we called it retarded and, yes, it was a pejorative even then. Using that word in that way was my way of giving voice to just how low they have gone in their pandering to what they consider their base. <br>I couldn't put the word in quotes because no one has actually used it, but I can actually imagine a time or a place where Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis are in a smokefilled back room and Steve says, \"Yeah, at that point she should pick up that retarded kid of hers and kiss it.\" Because that's how these people think.<br>I know. I've dealt with their ilk in advertising brainstorm sessions, i social circles, etc.<br>Sadly, the point got lost because of the un-pc word I used.<br>To this point I add this:<br>I am working at an Obama HQ in a very decidedly african american neighborhood. Today someone brought two bags of Oreos. One regular and the other white or vanilla.<br>I turned to one of my co-horts, a salty and very well respected mover and shaker in the hood and asked, \"Can we put up a sign over the white ones that says 'White Only'?\"<br>His suggestion was that we make sure we put one over the regular that say \"Blacks Only\".<br>The office manager shouted out, \"No! I like the white ones!\"<br>In a PC white majority office, I would have been strung up for this. <br>I think I prefer this office.<br><br>In short: sorry, didn't mean to offend. But I still think Trig is being used. And it's sad.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-04_21:49:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "Allen", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2868876": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "To directly address this, that's why we have Schultz smack dab between Biden and Palin, if his famous catchphrase is any indicator.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-04_18:38:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "DwDunphy", "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": 2868723, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2831886": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm actually offended by how Biden keeps using his dead wife and the accident that nearly killed his kids... Yes, it happened, but I'm of the mind that the kids are off the table. They shouldn't be used for jockey positioning. <br><br>It's simply that Palin is so much more vocal about her special-needs baby, and by plopping the kid front and center, of course there's going to be this sort of attention paid. Truly protecting the kid would be to keep the kid out of the spotlight. Aside from the son going to Iraq, you don't see her being as vocal about her daughters, do you? Isn't she, by her actions, causing this baby to be singled out.<br><br>You have to admit that much.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:44:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "DwDunphy", "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": 2829062, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2894097": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cannot defend that ad...though, far as I can tell, it aired only once before they pulled it in shame...<br><br>And hey, at least Social Security (and \"private accounts\" in a stock market that's down 2000 points lately) is an issue that's relevant to voters, unlike the crap the Republicans are cooking up to change the subject...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_11:55:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "4756cc9a1c3564d5b6f9281a65d120c6", "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": 2893781, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2826388": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think I don't agree. I think that Trig just....is. If he's not there, we'll rip on her denying his existence. If he is, he's a prop. I think Trig should be left out of the discussion. Just like gayness and blackness and whiteness should be. They just...are. There is no good bad or up or down. As for what is her name, Bristol? That's an interesting discussion, no. My question on Bristol is, why did McCain pick Palin as VP knowing about Bristol in the first place? Cunning or reckless?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_15:19:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "mojo", "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": 2825807, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2825623": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"WTF is she supposed to do?  Deny his existence?\"<br><br>Well, that's essentially what she's doing with her preggers oldest daughter.  Did you see her up on stage after that debate?  No.  And that's because it would remind everyone that she has a 17-year-old pregnant daughter.  I agree with Allen that they're using Trig as a prop.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_14:40:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "c5eca926bbcbd2287d13ca58c981021e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2825346, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2832024": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "But he WAS going after Palin -- for using her baby as a prop. You disagreed with the way he phrased it, that's one thing, but his original point remains.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:52:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "jefito", "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": 2831933, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2884352": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "And, like I said before, you don't see Palin trotting out her young unwed teen daughter like that. Politicians, like Hollywood stars, who use their kids as any sort of publicity point make me recoil.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_19:35:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "DwDunphy", "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": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2872983, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2823967": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Thanks, Jeff. I actually missed that. Hysterical.<br>When my ex's family decided to make a short film starring my daughter to inaugurate some fly-by-night film fleece operation, they did so by starring her as the poor, decrepit, cystic fibrosis kid who was probably gonna die any day.<br>At that moment they ceased having a \"terminally ill child dealing with cystic fibrosis\" to \"hey, look at Weezy, the tear-wrenching sympathy machine.\"<br>What gets me is that Palin can use her kid in such a callous fashion but if I label it EXACTLY as she is doing it (the retarded prop) I am a bad person.<br>It's total PC. <br>I empathize with the child. In fact, I feel terrible for it. But, this was a sick kid used as a photo op. I didn't see Bristol there? Why not? These are hateful people who put nice words on evil deeds. Well, someone has to put them in their place.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_13:05:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "Allen", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2823650, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2900128": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great. So even less work.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_17:40:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "Allen", "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": 2899922, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2826915": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "and by there is no good bad up or down...I mean, no one should care if I am black or white or gay or straight any more than they give a crap that I use Michelins or Firestones on my minivan. Or that I have a minivan.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_15:20:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "mojo", "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": 2826388, "depth": 10, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2828708": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It says a lot that you all seem to be fine with calling her kid a retardo-prop.  Enjoy sleeping with yourselves", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:15:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b656cb115589bce80e6bf64d8b40ee3", "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": 2828416, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2839594": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "maybe it isn't any of your business who is caring for tis baby but the Palin's? But my best guess is Todd or one of the kids was holding Trig DURING THE DEBATE? I don't know about you, but if I just debated in front of 70 million people, I'd want to hold my baby first thin! and not be an asshole to suggest otherwise.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-04_11:16:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "2f31a6ca877f87ef8a949c3cd1912757", "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": 2825809, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2831659": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Trouble is, they flaunt the kid. He was delivered to her at the end if the speech. Todd can't hold his kid? And why not leave it at home? Surely they could get a sitter, after all, Bristol wasn't busy. Trig is a prop. A heinous use of that child, I might add", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:27:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Allen", "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": 2826915, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2819630": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I thought one of the more interesting Non-answers that Gov. Palin gave was in regard to her actual Achilles heel versus her perceived Achilles heel. By not answering the question and instead listing her qualifications, it left some question in my mind as to whether she has that Bush-like inablity to see any self-dficiencies, or if she just didn't know what an Achilles heel is.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_08:01:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "2aaeb1a297eb2c9d6daec2408d4c7080", "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}, "2828381": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "no one is mr. mojo, no one.  My comment was meant in general ok.  <br><br>The main point is that calling her kid a retardo-prop shows utter hate & contempt.  As another post said, he needs to grow up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_16:51:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b656cb115589bce80e6bf64d8b40ee3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 8, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2828161, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2868723": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Has anybody perused the fact check on this debate from Newsweek? It seems the verbal fudge was flying fast and furious from both sides. So I guess in the end it boils down to style? <br><br>Frankly, I haven't watched the debate. I plan to do so tonight.  Did Biden ask Gwen Ifill to rise up from her wheelchair for applause?<br><br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2mzbuRgnI4\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2mzbuRgnI4</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-04_18:14:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "autodidact", "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}, "2887348": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think that's too general a statement.  Practically EVERY politician trots out the family at some point -- if he or she has one -- because a pretty picture of the wife/husband and kids says, \"Look, I've got peeps -- I'm just like you.\"<br><br>If it's done judiciously, it works and it's inoffensive.  One of the few things the Clintons did well in merging their personal and political lives was to show off just enough of Chelsea -- the walk to Madison Square Garden at the '92 convention was memorable -- without exposing her too much, and they were vigilant to keep her out of the media.  (Georgie Boy wishes he'd been a bit more vigilant with Barbara and Jenna during his first term.)<br><br>Obama went too far when he allowed \"Extra\" to do a family interview over the summer, but he reined it in quickly.  Otherwise, his trotting out of the fam has been nothing but a positive for him, especially in an election where he's been trying to beat back the \"this guy's not like you\" attacks from Hillary and the Republicans.<br><br>To that end, expect Michelle and the girls to take a higher profile over the next four weeks as McCain and the Rovians pull out all the despicable Republican stops.  Batten down the hatches...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_01:07:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "4756cc9a1c3564d5b6f9281a65d120c6", "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": 2884352, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2880437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If I was using my daughter as a means to propagate my own standing then someone calling me out and referring to her as \"weezey McSympathy child\" would probably be right.<br>She's dead now but she would have most likely laughed her ass of at that statement.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-05_13:08:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "Allen", "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": 2833903, "depth": 7, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2831933": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "you know what, if you say he's a good guy I'll take your word for it.  I just wish people would tone down the hate and go after Palin or any of them based on their politics - not their handicapped children.<br><br>And I insult both liberals and conservatives, as I feel that both groups (aka D's and R's) robotically follow a dogma vice actually think about issues and form their own opinions.  If they actually took time to form their own opinions about things, both parties would collapse and the country could put aside the failure of the 2-party system, and all the hate, & partisanship that comes along with it, as demonstrated by Mr. Allen's original comment.  <br><br>Hell, I'm sure folks in Congress throw insults at each other that are just as bad (maybe not in the open but no doubt at the water cooler).  That's what the two party system has gotten us.  Children throwing insults at each other.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:47:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b656cb115589bce80e6bf64d8b40ee3", "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": 2831743, "depth": 11, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2823112": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Any smart thing you wrote was wiped away by \"retardo prop.\"<br><br>Grow up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_12:08:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "David_E", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 14, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2822384, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2830284": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Amen.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:21:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "mojo", "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": 2828897, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2826955": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I loved that whole exchange. It was almost as if I was watching afootball game. I yelled to my wife Kate, c'mon Joe!!! Quote the constitution!!!! ANd when he did, I did something similar to an end zone dance. Fantastic, at least on the scale of Watered DOwn Debate Theater us thinkin' people's forced to endure.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_15:23:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "mojo", "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": 2825699, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2827724": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You are a deplorable person.  Typical hypocrite liberal, cry for political correctness in language - but not for you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_16:11:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b656cb115589bce80e6bf64d8b40ee3", "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": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2822384, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2892878": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm totally late to this conversation, but I have to say that this whole article articulately reflects the conversation my wife and I have been having since the debate...<br><br>and I completely second \"Candyland and chess\" as the best, most concise description of the debate.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_10:37:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "rahulgupta", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2824174, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2825807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think we all agree on that point.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_14:53:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "David_E", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2825623, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2825809": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "My wife's comment every time she sees the Palin family trotted out is, \"Why doesn't Todd ever hold that baby?  The world could be ending, and nobody would let Todd near that baby!\"<br><br>It's actually an a propos question, because as an at-home dad myself I couldn't help but notice that babies tend to become most comfortable around the person who's caring for the child most frequently.<br><br>Those who claimed it was sexist to question Sarah's decision to run for VP with a special-needs newborn noted that Todd is perfectly capable of caring for Trig.  From the looks of things, though, he never wants to hold him.  Which begs the question, WHO IS PARENTING THIS BABY?!?!?!<br><br>Inquiring minds want to know.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_14:54:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "4756cc9a1c3564d5b6f9281a65d120c6", "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": 2825623, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2899922": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey, she's a sports-twinkie, not a weather-twinkie.  There's a crucial difference.  (Fewer green screens, I believe.)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_17:24:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "4756cc9a1c3564d5b6f9281a65d120c6", "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": 2898429, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2829907": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I challenge you to rise above hate and at least say that he shouldn't have used that term.  If not, I'll assume your pretty cool with calling her kid a retardo-prop<br><br>The ball is in your court.  Do you have some civility on your high horse?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:20:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b656cb115589bce80e6bf64d8b40ee3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2828897, "depth": 9, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2893781": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"To that end, expect Michelle and the girls to take a higher profile over the next four weeks as McCain and the Rovians pull out all the despicable Republican stops. \"<br><br>Yes, that would be while Obama runs truthful informative commercials about how McCain wanted to cut Social Security checks by 50%. ;-) <br><br>I still say the best way to decide this is pistols at thirty paces.<br><br>The Bitter Cling-er", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_11:36:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "autodidact", "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": 2887348, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2831830": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "well, I've shoveled some coal into this hopper and I shall depart. I do hope if Palin's elected (clearly I do not prefer that outcome) she becomes an advocate for handicapped children. I would be pleased to pay more taxes toward that, and her pollsters would have a hard time disputing that it's a bad play.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:40:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "mojo", "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": 2831659, "depth": 12, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2839769": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Let's face it.  This debate means zippo.  Obama's going to win this thing, despite the fact that he's an empty suit.  The guy came out of nowhere, has little or no track record, and thus a lot of people fill this vessel with their own projected hopes and dreams.  He's an articulate, smooth talking lawyer.  And that's about it.  I'm not thrilled about McCain either, but Obama's meteoric rise is a real headscratcher.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-04_11:42:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "e624e44e48390d109c000515530b818c", "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": 2838021, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2820314": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The trouble is, it doesn't really matter if she answered the questions or not. What matters is she had enough moments where she looked and sounded good so that if you're a person who didn't watch the debate, but are tuning in today to catch the highlights, it looks like she gave a strong performance and that she won. I think that was their strategy, hence all the mugging and winking for the camera.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_09:06:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "fae78319f4b03d6fc2f3aa7f8951adad", "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": 2819630, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2824283": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Y'know, I do get irony. (And I did laugh at that Onion story.) I just did not take your point as humor. I guess I see a lot of daylight between \"prop\" and \"retardo.\" To me, the latter is personal, and really unnecessary in this context. <br><br>But that's me. I'm kinda sensitive.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_13:27:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "David_E", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 9, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2823967, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2827997": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ease back on that calling Jon deplorable stuff, bud. Or were you singling out someone else as deplorable?<br><br>Unless you can, uh, point us to the \"cry for political correctness\" anywhere here on this page? And then...can you cite said actual deplorable act? <br><br>Otherwise this looks like another heapin' helpin' of ditto'ing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_16:29:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "mojo", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 11, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2827724, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2823262": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I would love to retract it but, truth is, that is how they are treating that kid. They aren't being responsible parents, they are lifting him up, in front of cameras, with hot flashing lights everywhere and sending a callous, contrived and, I believe, hateful message to their constituency. It's repugnant. As the father of a child who died of a terminal illness I find this despicable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_12:16:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "Allen", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 13, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2823112, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2828897": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I hope that wide brush you're painting with saves you from breaking your neck after you fall off your high horse, Steve-O.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:17:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "jefito", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": true, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2828708, "depth": 8, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2823650": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wish you had said it that way prior, rather than slander the child (and hundreds of thousands like him) who can't defend themselves.<br><br>It's not P.C. It's simple empathy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_12:44:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "David_E", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 12, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2823262, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2825699": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh, and no one mentioned her response to the powers of the Vice President bit and whether she agreed with Cheney on his interpretation of the Constitution.  I truly think she did not expect the question, did not know how to answer it, so her instincts told her to agree with the position of the sitting Republican VP.  Either that, or she's just as crazy and dangerous as Cheney!  But I can't give her that much credit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_14:45:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "c5eca926bbcbd2287d13ca58c981021e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2834789": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So how did Gwen do?  Is she going to sell a lot of books?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_22:42:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "aafc4d31ca436be3ce74e3d6671e715b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2828113": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "using the term \"retardo-prop\" is deplorable beyond words.  That's what I'm referring to, as others did.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_16:37:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b656cb115589bce80e6bf64d8b40ee3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 10, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 2827997, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2828524": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I get very, very sad the day after these things. The reason why is because I have totally gone in the tank with the thought that Biden won, that he proved to be more knowledgeable than Palin and presented himself with a more professional, serious demeanor. The pundits seemed to agree on that and I thought, hey, good news.<br><br>Then, the day after, television and radio trot out the \"man on the street\" commentaries and the public fall over themselves to praise Palin. \"She thinks like we think\" and \"She speaks for us\" and \"She's the voice of the common person.\" Then I start wondering, if I sharpen up my coffee spork the right way, this could all be over with right now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:01:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "DwDunphy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2824174": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I wanted Biden to say at some point \"McCain says Obama's not ready to lead because he's inexperienced in Washingotn. What's your excuse?\"<br><br>I also wanted him to call them out on \"You keep saying 'We have won or are close to in Iraq' and yet McCain keeps saying 'our gains are so fragile in Iraq, we must keep going!'\" Which is it? Massive victory or not? Please clarify.<br><br>I also wanted him to say \"you say you're 'close to the heartland' and claim to be practically standing out there amongst the amber waves of grain, but yet 7 times I've also heard you say you're 'up there in Alaska.' as if that's a bigger, better place to govern than, say, Illinois.\" Please pick one or the other, you can't have it both ways.<br><br>I guess discretion is the better part of valor and Biden (despite his mojo-esque tendencies to speak first and think later) showed rare discipline last night. At points I think she was baiting him to rip into her with a couple insults and clearly exaggerated accusations but he brung his A game to the debate. <br><br>As far as Palin's performance goes I agree with everyone here who basically says it was a stump speech and not a debate. Hide your lack of debate skills and lack of  knowledge on the issues  behind \"Maverick bucking the controlling media\" bluster. The scary thing is that the conservative media eats it up. I guess they're suckers...and I get the picture that more people will catch the sound bites than actually watched the debates so her debate technique or actually answering questions won't matter. <br><br>Face it, Los Angeles vs. Chicago simultaneously playing a baseball game (first and third TV markets) did not help the viewership so the soundbite-ology that both candidates practiced was probably sounder strategy than actual debating.<br><br>Palin, to her credit, was smooth as advertised in many of the previews. She was every bit as telegenic as left and right wing media predicted she would be. She gracefully dodged answering questions, much more gracefully than any candidate I've seen since William Jefferson Himself.<br><br>By the way, the \"Candyland and chess\" line is the best, most concise description of the debate I have seen. I watched it and have read both left, right, and neutral stories about it...and our own Jon Cummings nails it.<br><br>My summation: Not as good as the Stockdale VP debate, but let's be realistic--will any debate, ever, top that nutso-fest?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_13:21:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "mojo", "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}, "2833903": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "This was my original point, as well. I happen to agree with Allen re: Trig's political \"appearances.\" I was just so taken aback with the invective he made his point with that the bitterness and thoughtlessness of the words overwhelmed the message. <br><br>Again, I don't consider this PC so much as simple empathy and humanity. Surely the same words hurled back at Allen would hurt in a similar situation.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_20:57:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "David_E", "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": 2831985, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2822384": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Nice coverage, guys. Let me just add something:<br>Biden won the debate hands down. Why? Because they both had jobs they had to NOT do. He had to not come across as a bully, smarmy or sexist and a know-it-all. She had to not turn into one of Mudd's androids when presented with flawed logic by Mr. Spock.<br>And they needed to take the game to their opponent.<br>Done and done. I could go on and on about how badly Palin did (really? McClellan?!? Really????) but let's focus on the two real moments of the debate. The \"you're no John Kennedy\" moments. The ones that are always best served when they are organic and not rehearsed or just semi-rehearesed. There were two. And at least one of them will live on for a long time, if not ever.<br>The first was when Biden took the air out of the Maverick talk. At first I thought it was too late and now I realize that it was perfectly timed. After she used that buzzword 9 times he took it away from them. Probably forever for a lot of people. And she of course, had no retort since she would prefer to speak to americans without the filter of the media, which means, of course, scripted.<br>The other was the most real moment of the entire campaign. When Biden, speaking about being a single father after the tragedy of losing his wife and child in an accident, even 30 years hence, seemed honest and real and brought a tear to this father's eye. And it made the hoisting of retardo-prop at the end of the show seem callous, calculated and just plain sad pandering. (By the way. Why the fuck isn't that kid in bed???)<br>So here's the way I basically described what is going to happen on my succinctly semi-genius blog, Septenary.<br><br>\"If I was a money man in the evangelical wing of the republican party I would be asking her to a) pull away from John McCain a bit and b) run for Ted Stevens senate seat. I imagine that there are a lot of gay-bashing, ethnic-hating, simple minded, gun-caressing republicans that see her as their bright and shining future.*<br>Okay. I don't think a) she will make it for 8 years in the senate let alone win that seat and b) the evangelical, hate spewing segment of the right will even exist in 8 years.<br>Because make no bones about it:<br><br>The next president will be president for 8 years.\"<br><br>Trust me. McCain is going to start showing up (or his money, at least) in Oregon and Minnesota and North Carolina as a bid to hold those precious senate seats. The RNC has given up the ghost and McCain knows he's the loser. But he'll game it for 30 days beacuse it's politics and ya never know.<br><br>But he knows.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_11:19:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "Allen", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 34, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2831985": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Ok, agreed.  But I have no problem with it being said the way you just did.  Throwing epithets out there does nothing but show anger, hate, and childishness.  That was the reason I commented.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:50:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b656cb115589bce80e6bf64d8b40ee3", "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": 2831886, "depth": 5, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2841843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "But how is it a head-scratcher? The Republican Party is stereotypically viewed as being old, fat, white men. In a time where people want to run from what they might view as abject failure, they move toward just about everything atypical of the GOP.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-04_14:04:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "DwDunphy", "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": 2839769, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2823668": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Something tells me you didn't laugh when you read this: <a href=\"http://www.theonion.com/content/most_recent/Point-Counterpoint\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.theonion.com/content/most_recent/Poi...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_12:45:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "jefito", "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": 2823650, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2820725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I thought the same thing as I watched it. When she hadn't gone off the rails after half an hour or so, I knew the narrative was going to be \"she didn't totally fuck up -- wow!\"<br><br>On the bright side, the post-debate polls broke totally Biden's way. Just because she cleared the bar doesn't mean she won.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_09:36:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "jefito", "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": 2820314, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2828539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Steve, how is was said may have not been the most elegant, but she's using the status of her child the same way W uses his cowboy hat. Now THAT'S deplorable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-03_17:03:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "DwDunphy", "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": 2827724, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2898429": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You know, I expect \"some\" sort of traipsing out of family. Kids, etc. It's part and parcel of the sport of politics and everyone knows that. To an extent.<br>When Palin not only made mention of her \"Special Needs\" baby but then showed said baby being coddled by...yet another baby, they introduced not just the children quotient but a callous, kids-as-happy-meal-toy aspect. To that end, bringing the kid on stage at the end of the veep debate was nothing more than a photo op with the re****o-prop.<br>And yet, Biden's quick choking up did more for me with images of dead children that I have never seen.<br>The difference is that the former is crass and calculated and the latter seemed to be somewhat real.<br>For some reason people really want to give her a pass on things like that and I don't think we should. I think she is exactly what she seems: an opportunistic, social/political climbing television weather-twinkie (let's see who is offended by that one) who used her looks to get anywhere she could. In many ways, Sarah Palin sets the women's movement back 50 years.<br>She should be stopped.<br>Thankfully, it's happening as we speak.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-10-06_16:14:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "Allen", "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": 2884352, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "2831743": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Oh, I'm sure you'll assume whatever you like no matter what I say -- based on the comments you've already made here, assuming things about people is one of your favorite things to do.<br><br>For the record, although Allen used a phrase I wouldn't have chosen, I know him, and I know he's an extremely compassionate person, especially with regards to children, so I'm willing to give him a mulligan for it. I also understand why you might take issue with what he said -- but what gets my dander up is when you come in here and start throwing insults at all liberals everywhere, or the site in general. I think you're guilty of demonstrating some of the same behavior you're condemning so loudly.<br><br>Not that I expect you to stop now. You'd be much less entertaining if you did, actually, so I'd be sort of disappointed. 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  this.CLOSE_THREAD = "Close thread";
  this.OPEN_THREAD = "Open thread";
  this.REMOVE_THREAD = "Remove thread";
  this.RESTORE_THREAD = "Restore thread";
  this.ACTIONS = "Actions";
};
// Dsq.Strings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = 'a2d140c59df8cd4ce27a20e0829cacd8';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



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

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

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

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

};

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

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

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

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

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

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

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

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

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

				this._accumMsg = '';

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

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

	if (packetNum === 0) {

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

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

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

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

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

	this._lastSeqno++;

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

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

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

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

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

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


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

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

	var listener = function(e) {

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


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

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

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

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



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


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

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

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

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

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

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

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

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

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

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

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

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

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

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


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



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


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


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

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

	this.packetHandler = null;


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


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

			that._ready = true;
		};

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

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







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

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

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

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


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

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

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


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

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

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

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

};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

		if (msg.username) {

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=popdose' +
		'&t=the_vp_debate_palinpalooza_wink_wink_popdose' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + encodeURIComponent(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://popdose.disqus.com/the_vp_debate_palinpalooza_wink_wink_popdose/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html = Dsq.Templates.postBox() + html;

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();


		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>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</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"> \
				<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">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL + '</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.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> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button type="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 type="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 type="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 type="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 type="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 type="button" class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button type="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 type="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 <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : '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 type="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 type="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 type="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 type="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 type="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 type="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 type="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="" /> ' + Dsq.Strings.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 type="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/popdose/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'the_vp_debate_palinpalooza_wink_wink_popdose'
			+ '&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/popdose/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://popdose.disqus.com/the_vp_debate_palinpalooza_wink_wink_popdose/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 {
			var retval = parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
			return !isNaN(retval) ? retval : null;
		}
	};

	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 type="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/popdose/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">58</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://popdose.disqus.com/the_vp_debate_palinpalooza_wink_wink_popdose/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://popdose.disqus.com/the_vp_debate_palinpalooza_wink_wink_popdose/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 </div>\
		';

		
			html = Dsq.Templates.authPost() + html;
		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://popdose.disqus.com/the_vp_debate_palinpalooza_wink_wink_popdose/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on Popdose" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:5299600" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/openid-login-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false">OpenID</a> \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'popdose',
			't'				: 'the_vp_debate_palinpalooza_wink_wink_popdose',
			// 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/popdose/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/popdose/the_vp_debate_palinpalooza_wink_wink_popdose/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 type="button" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button type="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/popdose/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'the_vp_debate_palinpalooza_wink_wink_popdose'
			+ '&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/popdose/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'the_vp_debate_palinpalooza_wink_wink_popdose'
			+ '&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/popdose/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'the_vp_debate_palinpalooza_wink_wink_popdose'
				+ '&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 type="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 type="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.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	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/popdose/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		  status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		  window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/popdose/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/popdose/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// 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/5299600/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) {
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		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
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		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
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		return name;
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		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
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		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
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			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
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			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
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	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
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		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
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}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
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	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
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			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
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};

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>';
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	this.startConnect = function() {
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			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/popdose/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
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Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
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	return obj;
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if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
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			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
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	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
		this.callback = function (data) {
			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
		};
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	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
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	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
		var swf = !!playerVersion ? playerVersion : 'http://seesmic.com/embeds/StandalonePlayer.swf';

		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
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			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
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			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
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			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
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(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
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			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
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			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
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	//
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	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
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	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
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	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
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Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2828524">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2828524" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2828524" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2828524" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DwDunphy</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2828524" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2828524" class="dsq-comment-message">I get very, very sad the day after these things. The reason why is because I have totally gone in the tank with the thought that Biden won, that he proved to be more knowledgeable than Palin and presented himself with a more professional, serious demeanor. The pundits seemed to agree on that and I thought, hey, good news.<br><br>Then, the day after, television and radio trot out the "man on the street" commentaries and the public fall over themselves to praise Palin. "She thinks like we think" and "She speaks for us" and "She\'s the voice of the common person." Then I start wondering, if I sharpen up my coffee spork the right way, this could all be over with right now.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2819630">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2819630" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2819630" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2819630">Jamielyon</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2819630" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2819630" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought one of the more interesting Non-answers that Gov. Palin gave was in regard to her actual Achilles heel versus her perceived Achilles heel. By not answering the question and instead listing her qualifications, it left some question in my mind as to whether she has that Bush-like inablity to see any self-dficiencies, or if she just didn\'t know what an Achilles heel is.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2820314">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2820314" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2820314" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2820314">Alicia</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2820314" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2820314" class="dsq-comment-message">The trouble is, it doesn\'t really matter if she answered the questions or not. What matters is she had enough moments where she looked and sounded good so that if you\'re a person who didn\'t watch the debate, but are tuning in today to catch the highlights, it looks like she gave a strong performance and that she won. I think that was their strategy, hence all the mugging and winking for the camera.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2820725">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2820725" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2820725" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2820725" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jefito</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2820725" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2820725" class="dsq-comment-message">I thought the same thing as I watched it. When she hadn\'t gone off the rails after half an hour or so, I knew the narrative was going to be "she didn\'t totally fuck up -- wow!"<br><br>On the bright side, the post-debate polls broke totally Biden\'s way. Just because she cleared the bar doesn\'t mean she won.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2822384">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2822384" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2822384" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2822384" href="http://www.septenary.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Allen</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2822384" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2822384" class="dsq-comment-message">Nice coverage, guys. Let me just add something:<br>Biden won the debate hands down. Why? Because they both had jobs they had to NOT do. He had to not come across as a bully, smarmy or sexist and a know-it-all. She had to not turn into one of Mudd\'s androids when presented with flawed logic by Mr. Spock.<br>And they needed to take the game to their opponent.<br>Done and done. I could go on and on about how badly Palin did (really? McClellan?!? Really????) but let\'s focus on the two real moments of the debate. The "you\'re no John Kennedy" moments. The ones that are always best served when they are organic and not rehearsed or just semi-rehearesed. There were two. And at least one of them will live on for a long time, if not ever.<br>The first was when Biden took the air out of the Maverick talk. At first I thought it was too late and now I realize that it was perfectly timed. After she used that buzzword 9 times he took it away from them. Probably forever for a lot of people. And she of course, had no retort since she would prefer to speak to americans without the filter of the media, which means, of course, scripted.<br>The other was the most real moment of the entire campaign. When Biden, speaking about being a single father after the tragedy of losing his wife and child in an accident, even 30 years hence, seemed honest and real and brought a tear to this father\'s eye. And it made the hoisting of retardo-prop at the end of the show seem callous, calculated and just plain sad pandering. (By the way. Why the fuck isn\'t that kid in bed???)<br>So here\'s the way I basically described what is going to happen on my succinctly semi-genius blog, Septenary.<br><br>"If I was a money man in the evangelical wing of the republican party I would be asking her to a) pull away from John McCain a bit and b) run for Ted Stevens senate seat. I imagine that there are a lot of gay-bashing, ethnic-hating, simple minded, gun-caressing republicans that see her as their bright and shining future.*<br>Okay. I don\'t think a) she will make it for 8 years in the senate let alone win that seat and b) the evangelical, hate spewing segment of the right will even exist in 8 years.<br>Because make no bones about it:<br><br>The next president will be president for 8 years."<br><br>Trust me. McCain is going to start showing up (or his money, at least) in Oregon and Minnesota and North Carolina as a bid to hold those precious senate seats. The RNC has given up the ghost and McCain knows he\'s the loser. But he\'ll game it for 30 days beacuse it\'s politics and ya never know.<br><br>But he knows.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2823112">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2823112" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2823112" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2823112">David_E</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2823112" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2823112" class="dsq-comment-message">Any smart thing you wrote was wiped away by "retardo prop."<br><br>Grow up.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2823262">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2823262" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2823262" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2823262" href="http://www.septenary.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Allen</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2823262" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2823262" class="dsq-comment-message">I would love to retract it but, truth is, that is how they are treating that kid. They aren\'t being responsible parents, they are lifting him up, in front of cameras, with hot flashing lights everywhere and sending a callous, contrived and, I believe, hateful message to their constituency. It\'s repugnant. As the father of a child who died of a terminal illness I find this despicable.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2823650">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2823650" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2823650" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2823650">David_E</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2823650" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2823650" class="dsq-comment-message">I wish you had said it that way prior, rather than slander the child (and hundreds of thousands like him) who can\'t defend themselves.<br><br>It\'s not P.C. It\'s simple empathy.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2823668">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2823668" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2823668" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2823668" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jefito</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2823668" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2823668" class="dsq-comment-message">Something tells me you didn\'t laugh when you read this: <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/most_recent/Point-Counterpoint" rel="nofollow">http://www.theonion.com/content/most_recent/Poi...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2823967">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2823967" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2823967" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2823967" href="http://www.septenary.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Allen</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2823967" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2823967" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks, Jeff. I actually missed that. Hysterical.<br>When my ex\'s family decided to make a short film starring my daughter to inaugurate some fly-by-night film fleece operation, they did so by starring her as the poor, decrepit, cystic fibrosis kid who was probably gonna die any day.<br>At that moment they ceased having a "terminally ill child dealing with cystic fibrosis" to "hey, look at Weezy, the tear-wrenching sympathy machine."<br>What gets me is that Palin can use her kid in such a callous fashion but if I label it EXACTLY as she is doing it (the retarded prop) I am a bad person.<br>It\'s total PC. <br>I empathize with the child. In fact, I feel terrible for it. But, this was a sick kid used as a photo op. I didn\'t see Bristol there? Why not? These are hateful people who put nice words on evil deeds. Well, someone has to put them in their place.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2824283">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2824283" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2824283" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2824283">David_E</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2824283" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2824283" class="dsq-comment-message">Y\'know, I do get irony. (And I did laugh at that Onion story.) I just did not take your point as humor. I guess I see a lot of daylight between "prop" and "retardo." To me, the latter is personal, and really unnecessary in this context. <br><br>But that\'s me. I\'m kinda sensitive.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2825346">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2825346" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2825346" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2825346">mojo</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2825346" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2825346" class="dsq-comment-message">I am uncomfortable with it too. Can\'t stand Palin, but WTF is she supposed to do? Deny his existence? Be more like a man and stuff the fam in the closet except at the debates and convention? As BIden put it last night, challenge the judgment and not the motivation. And I don\'t think there\'s any bad judgment on display here (except...am I the only one who thinks her daughter who always carries him around is a little small for the job? I hold my breath wondering if she\'s gonna topple right over carrying that kid...stairs have to be brutal! It\'d be about like me carrying a Honda Civic around).</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2825623">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2825623" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2825623" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2825623">DE</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2825623" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2825623" class="dsq-comment-message">"WTF is she supposed to do?  Deny his existence?"<br><br>Well, that\'s essentially what she\'s doing with her preggers oldest daughter.  Did you see her up on stage after that debate?  No.  And that\'s because it would remind everyone that she has a 17-year-old pregnant daughter.  I agree with Allen that they\'re using Trig as a prop.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2825807">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2825807" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2825807" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2825807">David_E</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2825807" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2825807" class="dsq-comment-message">I think we all agree on that point.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2826388" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2826388" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2826388">mojo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2826388" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2826388" class="dsq-comment-message">I think I don\'t agree. I think that Trig just....is. If he\'s not there, we\'ll rip on her denying his existence. If he is, he\'s a prop. I think Trig should be left out of the discussion. Just like gayness and blackness and whiteness should be. They just...are. There is no good bad or up or down. As for what is her name, Bristol? That\'s an interesting discussion, no. My question on Bristol is, why did McCain pick Palin as VP knowing about Bristol in the first place? Cunning or reckless?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2826915" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2826915" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2826915">mojo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2826915" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2826915" class="dsq-comment-message">and by there is no good bad up or down...I mean, no one should care if I am black or white or gay or straight any more than they give a crap that I use Michelins or Firestones on my minivan. Or that I have a minivan.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2831659" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2831659" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2831659" href="http://www.septenary.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Allen</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2831659" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2831659" class="dsq-comment-message">Trouble is, they flaunt the kid. He was delivered to her at the end if the speech. Todd can\'t hold his kid? And why not leave it at home? Surely they could get a sitter, after all, Bristol wasn\'t busy. Trig is a prop. A heinous use of that child, I might add</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2831830" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2831830" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2831830">mojo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2831830" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2831830" class="dsq-comment-message">well, I\'ve shoveled some coal into this hopper and I shall depart. I do hope if Palin\'s elected (clearly I do not prefer that outcome) she becomes an advocate for handicapped children. I would be pleased to pay more taxes toward that, and her pollsters would have a hard time disputing that it\'s a bad play.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2825809" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2825809" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2825809">JonCummings</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2825809" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2825809" class="dsq-comment-message">My wife\'s comment every time she sees the Palin family trotted out is, "Why doesn\'t Todd ever hold that baby?  The world could be ending, and nobody would let Todd near that baby!"<br><br>It\'s actually an a propos question, because as an at-home dad myself I couldn\'t help but notice that babies tend to become most comfortable around the person who\'s caring for the child most frequently.<br><br>Those who claimed it was sexist to question Sarah\'s decision to run for VP with a special-needs newborn noted that Todd is perfectly capable of caring for Trig.  From the looks of things, though, he never wants to hold him.  Which begs the question, WHO IS PARENTING THIS BABY?!?!?!<br><br>Inquiring minds want to know.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2839594" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2839594" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2839594">You People are Sick</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2839594" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2839594" class="dsq-comment-message">maybe it isn\'t any of your business who is caring for tis baby but the Palin\'s? But my best guess is Todd or one of the kids was holding Trig DURING THE DEBATE? I don\'t know about you, but if I just debated in front of 70 million people, I\'d want to hold my baby first thin! and not be an asshole to suggest otherwise.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2827724" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2827724" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2827724">steve</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2827724" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2827724" class="dsq-comment-message">You are a deplorable person.  Typical hypocrite liberal, cry for political correctness in language - but not for you.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2827997" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2827997" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2827997">mojo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2827997" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2827997" class="dsq-comment-message">Ease back on that calling Jon deplorable stuff, bud. Or were you singling out someone else as deplorable?<br><br>Unless you can, uh, point us to the "cry for political correctness" anywhere here on this page? And then...can you cite said actual deplorable act? <br><br>Otherwise this looks like another heapin\' helpin\' of ditto\'ing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2828113" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2828113" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2828113">steve</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2828113" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2828113" class="dsq-comment-message">using the term "retardo-prop" is deplorable beyond words.  That\'s what I\'m referring to, as others did.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2828161" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2828161" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2828161">mojo</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2828161" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2828161" class="dsq-comment-message">All right, you\'re talking about Allen, but you commented under jon, so we cleared that up that confusion. Now, who among us is crying for political correctness, again?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2828381" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2828381" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2828381">steve</span>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2828381" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2828381" class="dsq-comment-message">no one is mr. mojo, no one.  My comment was meant in general ok.  <br><br>The main point is that calling her kid a retardo-prop shows utter hate & contempt.  As another post said, he needs to grow up.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2828416" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2828416" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2828416" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jefito</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2828416" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2828416" class="dsq-comment-message">I think your main point is that all liberals are hypocrites, actually, which shows just as much contempt. Were you this upset when the incumbent mocked a death row inmate, or when a presidential candidate started singing about war?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2828708" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2828708" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2828708">steve</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2828708" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2828708" class="dsq-comment-message">It says a lot that you all seem to be fine with calling her kid a retardo-prop.  Enjoy sleeping with yourselves</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2828897" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2828897" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2828897" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jefito</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2828897" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2828897" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope that wide brush you\'re painting with saves you from breaking your neck after you fall off your high horse, Steve-O.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2829907" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2829907" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2829907">steve</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2829907" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2829907" class="dsq-comment-message">I challenge you to rise above hate and at least say that he shouldn\'t have used that term.  If not, I\'ll assume your pretty cool with calling her kid a retardo-prop<br><br>The ball is in your court.  Do you have some civility on your high horse?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2831743" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2831743" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2831743" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jefito</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2831743" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2831743" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, I\'m sure you\'ll assume whatever you like no matter what I say -- based on the comments you\'ve already made here, assuming things about people is one of your favorite things to do.<br><br>For the record, although Allen used a phrase I wouldn\'t have chosen, I know him, and I know he\'s an extremely compassionate person, especially with regards to children, so I\'m willing to give him a mulligan for it. I also understand why you might take issue with what he said -- but what gets my dander up is when you come in here and start throwing insults at all liberals everywhere, or the site in general. I think you\'re guilty of demonstrating some of the same behavior you\'re condemning so loudly.<br><br>Not that I expect you to stop now. You\'d be much less entertaining if you did, actually, so I\'d be sort of disappointed. Keep right on issuing blanket condemnations and wallowing in your righteous indignation.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2831933" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2831933" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2831933">steve</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2831933" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2831933" class="dsq-comment-message">you know what, if you say he\'s a good guy I\'ll take your word for it.  I just wish people would tone down the hate and go after Palin or any of them based on their politics - not their handicapped children.<br><br>And I insult both liberals and conservatives, as I feel that both groups (aka D\'s and R\'s) robotically follow a dogma vice actually think about issues and form their own opinions.  If they actually took time to form their own opinions about things, both parties would collapse and the country could put aside the failure of the 2-party system, and all the hate, & partisanship that comes along with it, as demonstrated by Mr. Allen\'s original comment.  <br><br>Hell, I\'m sure folks in Congress throw insults at each other that are just as bad (maybe not in the open but no doubt at the water cooler).  That\'s what the two party system has gotten us.  Children throwing insults at each other.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2832024" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2832024" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2832024" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jefito</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2832024" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2832024" class="dsq-comment-message">But he WAS going after Palin -- for using her baby as a prop. You disagreed with the way he phrased it, that\'s one thing, but his original point remains.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2830284" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2830284" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2830284">mojo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2830284" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2830284" class="dsq-comment-message">Amen.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2828539" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2828539" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2828539" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DwDunphy</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2828539" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2828539" class="dsq-comment-message">Steve, how is was said may have not been the most elegant, but she\'s using the status of her child the same way W uses his cowboy hat. Now THAT\'S deplorable.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2829062" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2829062" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2829062">steve</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2829062" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2829062" class="dsq-comment-message">"may not have been the most elegant"  Really?  C\'mon.  You know as well as I do that it was deplorable.  And if it were reversed and Biden had a special needs kid and someone made the same comment everyone on this blog would be screaming bloody murder.<br><br>Hate her politics, don\'t be mean and say hateful things about things she can\'t control.  <br><br>Christ is there any civility left......</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2831886" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2831886" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DwDunphy</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2831886" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2831886" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m actually offended by how Biden keeps using his dead wife and the accident that nearly killed his kids... Yes, it happened, but I\'m of the mind that the kids are off the table. They shouldn\'t be used for jockey positioning. <br><br>It\'s simply that Palin is so much more vocal about her special-needs baby, and by plopping the kid front and center, of course there\'s going to be this sort of attention paid. Truly protecting the kid would be to keep the kid out of the spotlight. Aside from the son going to Iraq, you don\'t see her being as vocal about her daughters, do you? Isn\'t she, by her actions, causing this baby to be singled out.<br><br>You have to admit that much.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2831985" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2831985" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2831985">steve</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2831985" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2831985" class="dsq-comment-message">Ok, agreed.  But I have no problem with it being said the way you just did.  Throwing epithets out there does nothing but show anger, hate, and childishness.  That was the reason I commented.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2833903" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2833903">David_E</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2833903" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2833903" class="dsq-comment-message">This was my original point, as well. I happen to agree with Allen re: Trig\'s political "appearances." I was just so taken aback with the invective he made his point with that the bitterness and thoughtlessness of the words overwhelmed the message. <br><br>Again, I don\'t consider this PC so much as simple empathy and humanity. Surely the same words hurled back at Allen would hurt in a similar situation.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2880437" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2880437" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2880437" href="http://www.septenary.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Allen</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2880437" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2880437" class="dsq-comment-message">If I was using my daughter as a means to propagate my own standing then someone calling me out and referring to her as "weezey McSympathy child" would probably be right.<br>She\'s dead now but she would have most likely laughed her ass of at that statement.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2824174" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2824174" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2824174">mojo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2824174" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2824174" class="dsq-comment-message">I wanted Biden to say at some point "McCain says Obama\'s not ready to lead because he\'s inexperienced in Washingotn. What\'s your excuse?"<br><br>I also wanted him to call them out on "You keep saying \'We have won or are close to in Iraq\' and yet McCain keeps saying \'our gains are so fragile in Iraq, we must keep going!\'" Which is it? Massive victory or not? Please clarify.<br><br>I also wanted him to say "you say you\'re \'close to the heartland\' and claim to be practically standing out there amongst the amber waves of grain, but yet 7 times I\'ve also heard you say you\'re \'up there in Alaska.\' as if that\'s a bigger, better place to govern than, say, Illinois." Please pick one or the other, you can\'t have it both ways.<br><br>I guess discretion is the better part of valor and Biden (despite his mojo-esque tendencies to speak first and think later) showed rare discipline last night. At points I think she was baiting him to rip into her with a couple insults and clearly exaggerated accusations but he brung his A game to the debate. <br><br>As far as Palin\'s performance goes I agree with everyone here who basically says it was a stump speech and not a debate. Hide your lack of debate skills and lack of  knowledge on the issues  behind "Maverick bucking the controlling media" bluster. The scary thing is that the conservative media eats it up. I guess they\'re suckers...and I get the picture that more people will catch the sound bites than actually watched the debates so her debate technique or actually answering questions won\'t matter. <br><br>Face it, Los Angeles vs. Chicago simultaneously playing a baseball game (first and third TV markets) did not help the viewership so the soundbite-ology that both candidates practiced was probably sounder strategy than actual debating.<br><br>Palin, to her credit, was smooth as advertised in many of the previews. She was every bit as telegenic as left and right wing media predicted she would be. She gracefully dodged answering questions, much more gracefully than any candidate I\'ve seen since William Jefferson Himself.<br><br>By the way, the "Candyland and chess" line is the best, most concise description of the debate I have seen. I watched it and have read both left, right, and neutral stories about it...and our own Jon Cummings nails it.<br><br>My summation: Not as good as the Stockdale VP debate, but let\'s be realistic--will any debate, ever, top that nutso-fest?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2892878" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2892878" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2892878" href="http://www.rahulgupta.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rahulgupta</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2892878" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2892878" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m totally late to this conversation, but I have to say that this whole article articulately reflects the conversation my wife and I have been having since the debate...<br><br>and I completely second "Candyland and chess" as the best, most concise description of the debate.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2825699" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2825699">DE</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2825699" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2825699" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, and no one mentioned her response to the powers of the Vice President bit and whether she agreed with Cheney on his interpretation of the Constitution.  I truly think she did not expect the question, did not know how to answer it, so her instincts told her to agree with the position of the sitting Republican VP.  Either that, or she\'s just as crazy and dangerous as Cheney!  But I can\'t give her that much credit.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2826955" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2826955" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2826955">mojo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2826955" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2826955" class="dsq-comment-message">I loved that whole exchange. It was almost as if I was watching afootball game. I yelled to my wife Kate, c\'mon Joe!!! Quote the constitution!!!! ANd when he did, I did something similar to an end zone dance. Fantastic, at least on the scale of Watered DOwn Debate Theater us thinkin\' people\'s forced to endure.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-2833451">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2833451" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2833451" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2833451">Oldetymer</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2833451" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2833451" class="dsq-comment-message">Damn DW, is that what you want in your obit, death due to a spork? at least  bring out the silverware before you make a rash decision.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2834789">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2834789" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2834789" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2834789">:-D Shea</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2834789" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2834789" class="dsq-comment-message">So how did Gwen do?  Is she going to sell a lot of books?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2838021">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2838021" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2838021" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2838021" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DwDunphy</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2838021" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2838021" class="dsq-comment-message">Gwen did neither good nor bad. She was adequate, but in fairness, she did keep Palin\'s response times lower than Biden\'s. Some say that was a bias toward the Obama / Biden ticket but I disagree. If you really want to help the ticket, you keep the opponent rambling until they shatter. Ifill\'s interpreted "help" if it was intended completely backfired.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2839769">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2839769" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2839769" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2839769">Dan</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2839769" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2839769" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s face it.  This debate means zippo.  Obama\'s going to win this thing, despite the fact that he\'s an empty suit.  The guy came out of nowhere, has little or no track record, and thus a lot of people fill this vessel with their own projected hopes and dreams.  He\'s an articulate, smooth talking lawyer.  And that\'s about it.  I\'m not thrilled about McCain either, but Obama\'s meteoric rise is a real headscratcher.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2841843">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2841843" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2841843" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2841843" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DwDunphy</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2841843" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2841843" class="dsq-comment-message">But how is it a head-scratcher? The Republican Party is stereotypically viewed as being old, fat, white men. In a time where people want to run from what they might view as abject failure, they move toward just about everything atypical of the GOP.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2868723">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2868723" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2868723" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2868723" href="http://thevitaminkid.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">autodidact</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2868723" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2868723" class="dsq-comment-message">Has anybody perused the fact check on this debate from Newsweek? It seems the verbal fudge was flying fast and furious from both sides. So I guess in the end it boils down to style? <br><br>Frankly, I haven\'t watched the debate. I plan to do so tonight.  Did Biden ask Gwen Ifill to rise up from her wheelchair for applause?<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2mzbuRgnI4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2mzbuRgnI4</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2868876">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2868876" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2868876" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2868876" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DwDunphy</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2868876" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2868876" class="dsq-comment-message">To directly address this, that\'s why we have Schultz smack dab between Biden and Palin, if his famous catchphrase is any indicator.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2872983">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2872983" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2872983" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2872983" href="http://www.septenary.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Allen</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2872983" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2872983" class="dsq-comment-message">For the record (and thanks to those that came to my defense) here\'s what I meant regarding the "retardo-prop" comment.<br>This is not how I refer to Trig. Nor is it how I imagine anyone else does, least of all that family.<br>However, the way they are treating Trig and his place in the campaign is as a prop. A "disabled" child. A "special" child. In the 70s we called it retarded and, yes, it was a pejorative even then. Using that word in that way was my way of giving voice to just how low they have gone in their pandering to what they consider their base. <br>I couldn\'t put the word in quotes because no one has actually used it, but I can actually imagine a time or a place where Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis are in a smokefilled back room and Steve says, "Yeah, at that point she should pick up that retarded kid of hers and kiss it." Because that\'s how these people think.<br>I know. I\'ve dealt with their ilk in advertising brainstorm sessions, i social circles, etc.<br>Sadly, the point got lost because of the un-pc word I used.<br>To this point I add this:<br>I am working at an Obama HQ in a very decidedly african american neighborhood. Today someone brought two bags of Oreos. One regular and the other white or vanilla.<br>I turned to one of my co-horts, a salty and very well respected mover and shaker in the hood and asked, "Can we put up a sign over the white ones that says \'White Only\'?"<br>His suggestion was that we make sure we put one over the regular that say "Blacks Only".<br>The office manager shouted out, "No! I like the white ones!"<br>In a PC white majority office, I would have been strung up for this. <br>I think I prefer this office.<br><br>In short: sorry, didn\'t mean to offend. But I still think Trig is being used. And it\'s sad.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2884352">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2884352" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2884352" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2884352" href="http://www.popdose.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DwDunphy</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2884352" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2884352" class="dsq-comment-message">And, like I said before, you don\'t see Palin trotting out her young unwed teen daughter like that. Politicians, like Hollywood stars, who use their kids as any sort of publicity point make me recoil.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2887348">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2887348" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2887348" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2887348">JonCummings</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2887348" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2887348" class="dsq-comment-message">I think that\'s too general a statement.  Practically EVERY politician trots out the family at some point -- if he or she has one -- because a pretty picture of the wife/husband and kids says, "Look, I\'ve got peeps -- I\'m just like you."<br><br>If it\'s done judiciously, it works and it\'s inoffensive.  One of the few things the Clintons did well in merging their personal and political lives was to show off just enough of Chelsea -- the walk to Madison Square Garden at the \'92 convention was memorable -- without exposing her too much, and they were vigilant to keep her out of the media.  (Georgie Boy wishes he\'d been a bit more vigilant with Barbara and Jenna during his first term.)<br><br>Obama went too far when he allowed "Extra" to do a family interview over the summer, but he reined it in quickly.  Otherwise, his trotting out of the fam has been nothing but a positive for him, especially in an election where he\'s been trying to beat back the "this guy\'s not like you" attacks from Hillary and the Republicans.<br><br>To that end, expect Michelle and the girls to take a higher profile over the next four weeks as McCain and the Rovians pull out all the despicable Republican stops.  Batten down the hatches...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2893781">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2893781" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2893781" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2893781" href="http://thevitaminkid.blogspot.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">autodidact</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2893781" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2893781" class="dsq-comment-message">"To that end, expect Michelle and the girls to take a higher profile over the next four weeks as McCain and the Rovians pull out all the despicable Republican stops. "<br><br>Yes, that would be while Obama runs truthful informative commercials about how McCain wanted to cut Social Security checks by 50%. ;-) <br><br>I still say the best way to decide this is pistols at thirty paces.<br><br>The Bitter Cling-er</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2894097">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2894097" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2894097" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2894097">JonCummings</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2894097" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2894097" class="dsq-comment-message">Cannot defend that ad...though, far as I can tell, it aired only once before they pulled it in shame...<br><br>And hey, at least Social Security (and "private accounts" in a stock market that\'s down 2000 points lately) is an issue that\'s relevant to voters, unlike the crap the Republicans are cooking up to change the subject...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2898429">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2898429" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2898429" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2898429" href="http://www.septenary.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Allen</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2898429" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2898429" class="dsq-comment-message">You know, I expect "some" sort of traipsing out of family. Kids, etc. It\'s part and parcel of the sport of politics and everyone knows that. To an extent.<br>When Palin not only made mention of her "Special Needs" baby but then showed said baby being coddled by...yet another baby, they introduced not just the children quotient but a callous, kids-as-happy-meal-toy aspect. To that end, bringing the kid on stage at the end of the veep debate was nothing more than a photo op with the re****o-prop.<br>And yet, Biden\'s quick choking up did more for me with images of dead children that I have never seen.<br>The difference is that the former is crass and calculated and the latter seemed to be somewhat real.<br>For some reason people really want to give her a pass on things like that and I don\'t think we should. I think she is exactly what she seems: an opportunistic, social/political climbing television weather-twinkie (let\'s see who is offended by that one) who used her looks to get anywhere she could. In many ways, Sarah Palin sets the women\'s movement back 50 years.<br>She should be stopped.<br>Thankfully, it\'s happening as we speak.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2899922">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2899922" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2899922" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-2899922">JonCummings</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2899922" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2899922" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, she\'s a sports-twinkie, not a weather-twinkie.  There\'s a crucial difference.  (Fewer green screens, I believe.)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-2900128">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-2900128" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-2900128" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-2900128" href="http://www.septenary.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Allen</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-2900128" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-2900128" class="dsq-comment-message">Great. So even less work.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
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