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It's \"lose\" not loose. Please Sanford, give the kids a chance to be educated!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_19:43:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "1050fc9b548b0780217d451c3836ff25", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8017486, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8017539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hmm, it was OK that Clinton lead Arkansas to dead last in education.  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I'm sure Governor Strickland would appreciate the extra money to stimulate Ohio's economy and create more jobs for the State's hard working people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:51:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "c53f92662661fbf1fe04fc96dda9af69", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8015003": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Just wondering, who presided over the SC budget that put it in that debt in the first place?  Who lowered taxes, drove their education system to dead last out of 50 states and thinks that taking the money that they didn't earn which was allocated for education and instead wants to redirect it to pay down the debt that they incurred?  As far as I'm concerned, they don't have to accept a red cent.  Just don't complain that the money isn't going to go to pay off your irresponsibility up until now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_15:30:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "179ebc56d133c09ecac8d94a9e000fa7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8016559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are someone South Carolina should be proud of.  In Kansas, our education money comes from the state and from local counties combined as well.  And our Republican-led legislature has tried to cut back our education funds, but our Governor, Kathleen Sebelius has steadfastly vowed to veto any budget that included cutting education.  It's too bad the great state of South Carolina has no one but Sanford as its leader.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:15:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "0eda9fa4133fe3af0db0f294c6309d1a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8015553, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8019236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He is a fool, not the funny, talented kind. I called his office and asked about the Confederate flag, they said the matter was already decided. Imagine the symbolic image of a plantation-owning family (Sanford) running against a family (Michelle Obama's) who has real history of slavery on a Charleston/Georgetown plantation. Is Sanford going to use the Confederate flag in his ads? I sure would if I was running against him. He is a tacit supporter of the pre-Civil Rights America's racial policies. Should we let him try to turn all America into a plantation? That is the economic plan he is really suggesting here. A world of \"owners\" and \"slaves.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_18:00:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "c122d4ef12e4ea3325277f1e35576fab", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8022953": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't understand the purpose of this advertising approach.  Why isn't he using the funds raised for this venture to pay down the state debt of South Carolina?  In fact, why does the state even have any debt?  What could possibly be worth borrowing for?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_21:06:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "5f8881c92e91cedfc173d01f21bbed6b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8017710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Now try telling the truth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:55:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1b5d9421c058994eb141ff7d83eb80d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 6, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8017628, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8015581": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cut more taxes reducing your state's income and overcrowd schools severely putting South Carolina students behind the rest of the country. Sounds solid, keep up the GREAT work!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_15:44:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "67d666b62a3a426361c66e5d45f8d386", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8020530": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Gov. Sanford is a virtual nitwit.  For someone who has ran South Carolina aground in just two terms his audacity roils.  It is in SC that I encountered as many potholes in state and city roads as I saw on the roads of Edo State (Nigeria).  He talks of debt as if he's not the one who accumulated the one that SC is currently laboring under.  This man is completely nuts.  Imagine the illogic of his argument: the country is down and reeling from massive unemployment resulting from a collapse in demand; so, what to do: and there comes Dr. Jackass Sanford with the magic solution: liquidate all debts ...liquidate all taxes...liquidate all government spending....liquidate education....roads....!  This man is completely out of his mind.  I suggest that he be put away in some island institution as he is a clear and present danger not only to himself and his family, but to all who may potentially be exposed to his toxic self.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_18:57:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "7eacff91e132640b386dab6b928bf66e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8017588": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He doesn't have to worry about his children going to college, or feeding them! He is a white male driven to power at any means. I hope The People of South Carolina put his ass  out office before his term is over. He is a complet e JACK ASS with abow tie!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:49:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "75aaad163d7d304b2b3b20933254cb2e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8019893": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The point being made is there's a better way. <br><br>WELL... WHAT IS IT...!!<br><br>If your way forward is so much better, why don't you tell us?<br><br>Leadership requires communication. Something the GOP has yet to figure out....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_18:29:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "191eddd916c5292e5050ec69e4bc10f6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8018614": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "try economics.  learn the outcome of policy so you can make money in stocks. for instance obama wasted so much money on his socialistic agenda that we had to print money.the inflation that is coming will cripple the poor.but i will make money in oil and food because of the shortages that will come.its a game .YOU CANT RELY ON GOVERNMENT IT WONT WORK", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_17:33:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "d9c5ac42b76cf7dbe755398a18720658", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8018370, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8019386": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are right to be embarrassed, cuz you  are clueless, in addition to regurgitating incorrect information.  Spending by the collective \"us\" did not get us here.  Try as you may the facts cannot be disputed.  Greed got us here.  Greed and a bunch of MBA's eho decided that there was no meaningful regulation and what there was was underfunded and years behind.  They invented instruments which were \"FAKE, and FRAUD.\"   They paid credit rating bureaus to falsify their work, and sold the result all over the world.  Don't you try to blame this mess on us!  This is not about debt, this is about  fraud, misrepresentation and a lack of Government oversight.  It is Mark Sanford's overspending, if South Carolina is in debt.  You will try to blame their problems on a Democratic Legislature, but you better do some fact checking if you do.  Stop trying to place the blame on us and allow it to fall where it belongs.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_18:06:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "c28c027fdeaa11ba8807928f2452ceee", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8017770, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8014909": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Gov.  you need to check your facts.  Too much debt did not cause the problem.  It was too little control which allowed the greed factor to become too much in control.  That is unregulated capitalism at its best (worst).<br><br>When the greedy are going wild the resilience of the market is very low.  The greedy are always after more money, and at the same time afraid they will lose what they have accumulated.<br><br>If you want to win the minds of those that care.  Propose an investigation as to the causes of the present crash and solutions so it cannot happen again.  (I know.  You know that if you did this you would be so unpopular with the greedy Republicans that you would not be elected.)  Leadership is hard.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_15:27:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "Hawaiianstyle", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8018752": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yea but i bet you buy oil stocks", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_17:38:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "d9c5ac42b76cf7dbe755398a18720658", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8018697, "depth": 6, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8017217": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Recession caused by debt? Is he totally clueless? In order to offer a solution to a problem, it's best to actually UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM before talking out of your a** with \"solutions\".<br><br>Idiots.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:38:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "d1291eead75e52ba078e075636ab8040", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8018370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I never \"lissened\" to Oprah in the first place. Why don't you stop drinking the Kool Aid. Maybe then we can work on getting your head out of your @ss.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_17:21:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "05f20c195a7854291d592bfdd09a73e0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8017936, "depth": 3, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8018628": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"i am. quit lissening to oprah\"<br><br>\"I never \"lissened\" to Oprah in the first place.\"<br><br>See, you still don't know the truth!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_17:33:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1b5d9421c058994eb141ff7d83eb80d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8018370, "depth": 4, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8018505": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If South Carolina didn't give away the farm to Mercedes Benz - like the car company doesn't pay property taxes over the next 20 years (not sure about the time span) maybe the state would have some cash.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_17:26:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "19ad20256a029798e7ac72dff85e827c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8017486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Yes, there is a way other than straddling our children with more debt--So. Carolina can simply have more tent cities as more people loose their jobs and their homes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:47:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "24f20107d9f8aade00da7adbb4e81b16", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8015951": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "deregulation is the answer /private secter is the answer /sociolism is not", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_15:56:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "5cf652f89a87968d258dcd8163dd3b92", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8016082": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How much does that ad cost? Where will it play?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_15:59:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "80c70e71e4046d29aef2f042f91d053f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8016220": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I certainly hope the voters in his state, will remember his decision on the stimulus...when and if, he should<br>run for anything in that state again!   He is truly politically profiling!  How selfish can one get????", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:04:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "1653d84c13cbee807bb404eaa7632e8d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8020058": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here's the problem with Sanford. He'll take the money, just not for education. He asked the White House if he could use the 700 million allotted for education to pay down the state's debt. If he takes any or part, he's adding to the national debt, so how does he say he's against it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_18:36:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e2ad372ab45533faa2925d7d76e1a33", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8017770, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8017628": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "even clinton admitted dems to blame for crisis.dodd,frank,reid,and pulosi working with obama will surely destroy this country    go socialism", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:50:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "d9c5ac42b76cf7dbe755398a18720658", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 7, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8052829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, you get want you vote into office. Next time make a wiser decision.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-10_09:35:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "26ff55034f6514347e8e7d402d5346e0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8017502": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "i disagree.the reform of the cra in 98 started this.banks were fine until forced to give bad loans.government intervention NEVER WORKS.less regulation and low taxes will.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:48:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "d9c5ac42b76cf7dbe755398a18720658", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8014909, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8015841": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "bush is a regulater stupid , bush never deregulated", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_15:52:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "5cf652f89a87968d258dcd8163dd3b92", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8017770": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "There's a lot of economic \"cluelessness\" all around here, but not much of it is coming from Mark Sanford.  I don't know much about him, and he may be an idiot about lots of stuff, but he's absolutely right that excessive debt got us into this.  I dare say it's inarguable.  <br><br>That's where \"bubbles\" come from folks - too much leverage taken on to live an unearned lifestyle today, bidding up today's prices far beyond where they should have been (for houses, oil, corn, whatever).  The only reason we didn't see higher inflation in other goods is because the Chinese were selling us stuff for 15% of what it used to cost us to make it, pushing those prices artificially down..<br><br>But we had been in a grotesque bubble.  Now, government may actually succeed in re-inflating this bubble yet again (\"again\" because this last bubble was just a reinflation of the dot-com bubble that burst in 2000-2001) with the massive amounts of debt they are incurring on our behalf.  But even if they do so, it's just going to happen agian, and one of these times (maybe this one), they just won't be able to do it anymore.<br><br>Why do people have such a hard time understanding that taking on massive debt is no more healthy for a country than it is for an individual?  If I as an individual borrow lots of money today to live a lavish lifestyle that I haven't earned, can I call that \"economic growth\" or a \"recovery\"?  Maybe, but only up until I actually have to pay the money back and it all comes crashing down.<br><br>But the \"economists\" on this thread who seem to get their vacuous economics lessons from  <a href=\"http://HopeandChange.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">HopeandChange.com</a> talking point alert emails really should get a clue.  I'm embarassed for them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:58:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "338331e8c77a2054c147ed7c894d716f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8015986": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "sanford is one of the best next to ron paul in the republican party", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_15:57:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "5cf652f89a87968d258dcd8163dd3b92", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8017654": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obviously you don't live in South Carolina. Officially it has the second highest unemployment rate in the nation (in reality it is the highest because we have long-term unemployed folks who have long been removed from the count; and still are not working). Yet, idiots like you are proud to support the king idiots who places MONEY before people. Oh, did the Governor tell you that he is selling his 3.5 million dollar summer house because he no longer needs it for HIS children? By-the-way, he still has NOT made any effort towards repairing that school that he said South Carolina was able to take care for itself. If this guy doesn\u2019t give a crap about the people in the state where he was raised and lives, then what makes you believe that he gives a crap about YOU?? Do you really want him to become President of the USA?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:53:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1b5d9421c058994eb141ff7d83eb80d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8015986, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8019960": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "He is fruit-loopy. What is it going to be \" to debt or not to debt\". He'll take the money to pay the state debt, but doesn't think it's good to send the country into more debt by taking money for education, altough by taking the money, for anything, he's adding to the federal debt. \"You go into debt to pay my debt.\" he says. What a walking-talking contradiction.It is clear his family owned slaved. Just like a slave owner, let's not educate. We'll keep it like it was before they free. And trust me, the educational system in South Carolina would pass Forest Gump off as a genius. The GOP is resting all it's hopes on Yogi Bear's(Palin) or Bullwinkle (Stanford). What a sad state of affairs. Also in '06, when I lived there, he got in trouble for a racial slur. He's not going to fly in 12, 16 or ever. Palin will have the same problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_18:31:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e2ad372ab45533faa2925d7d76e1a33", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8017145": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Deregulation is what put us in this spot dip stick.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-09_16:35:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "5bb5b95f37d0c44d80bc0f7f5387b295", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8015951, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8018794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Um no. The crisis was sparked by over leveraged banks, and idiotic investment practices. Blame does not reside in a single party either. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act started it (under Clinton).<br><br>1) Banks make loans to people with bad credit and insufficient income at stupid rates to buy houses. They convince the rubes that they just have to hold the house for a while and refi as soon as the value has gone up enough to pay back the loan (cause real estate will increase in value... exponentially... forever... right)<br><br>2) Banks package these loans into mortgage backed securities and sell them to investors. The way that they were structured meant that the attached S&P rating was essentially pointless but investors bought them anyways. Fed was holding down rates so you had lots of money flying around. So now the bad mortgages have been distributed around and the poison spreads. As an added bonus folks like AIG insure these bad investments.<br><br>3) Continues like this for a while until the housing bubble becomes unsustainable and they run out of buyers. Lack of buyers pushes down price. Pushed down price means the idiots in 1) can't refi to pay back the loan they should have never gotten in the first place. They foreclose, adding another house to the market, driving prices down further, causing a cascading foreclosure problem.<br><br>4) Banks panic, seeing their house of cards collapse around them and suddenly realize no one is willing to buy their MBSs anymore. So now they are sitting on bad debt and realized they are over leveraged 25:1. Hence credit crunch.<br><br><br>So yes, you and Gov Sanford are both clueless. What do you do in bad times? Deficit spend. It worked in the past and will work now (or are you one of the loons who believes that FDR caused the depression or some other nonsense?). Problem is that you are supposed to then NOT deficit spend in good times and actually build a surplus. That way when the next bubble comes around, you have the surplus to deficit spend without causing harmful levels of inflation.<br><br>Yes, our society's spending habits are incredibly naive and foolish. Spending forever and building ever larger deficits is a time bomb that must be stopped as soon as possible. But not now. If you don't deficit spend in a recession, it can turn into a depression.<br><br>What is worse: building a trillion in debt or, 20% unemployment, deflation, and collapse of world trade. Wait don't answer. I've had enough wingnuttery for today. 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Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
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Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
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/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
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Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


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			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
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};

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 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
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	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/_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 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">\
	 Showing <span id="dsq-num-posts">41</span> of <span id="dsq-total-posts">41</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/gov_mark_sanford_launches_anti_stimulus_tv_ad/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" >Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" selected="selected">Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/gov_mark_sanford_launches_anti_stimulus_tv_ad/">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();

		

		return html;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return html;
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	//
	// 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 The Washington Independent" 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:15439165" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</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'				: 'washingtonindependent',
			't'				: 'gov_mark_sanford_launches_anti_stimulus_tv_ad',
			// 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/washingtonindependent/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/washingtonindependent/gov_mark_sanford_launches_anti_stimulus_tv_ad/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'gov_mark_sanford_launches_anti_stimulus_tv_ad'
			+ '&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/washingtonindependent/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'gov_mark_sanford_launches_anti_stimulus_tv_ad'
			+ '&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/washingtonindependent/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'gov_mark_sanford_launches_anti_stimulus_tv_ad'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/15439165/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

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

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

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

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

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

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

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

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

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

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/washingtonindependent/queueurl.js');
	};
};

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

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}









(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8052829">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8052829" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8052829" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8052829">LG</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8052829" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8052829" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, you get want you vote into office. Next time make a wiser decision.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8022953">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8022953" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8022953" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8022953">4sooth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8022953" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8022953" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t understand the purpose of this advertising approach.  Why isn\'t he using the funds raised for this venture to pay down the state debt of South Carolina?  In fact, why does the state even have any debt?  What could possibly be worth borrowing for?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8020530">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8020530" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8020530" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8020530">Ndabaningi</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8020530" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8020530" class="dsq-comment-message">Gov. Sanford is a virtual nitwit.  For someone who has ran South Carolina aground in just two terms his audacity roils.  It is in SC that I encountered as many potholes in state and city roads as I saw on the roads of Edo State (Nigeria).  He talks of debt as if he\'s not the one who accumulated the one that SC is currently laboring under.  This man is completely nuts.  Imagine the illogic of his argument: the country is down and reeling from massive unemployment resulting from a collapse in demand; so, what to do: and there comes Dr. Jackass Sanford with the magic solution: liquidate all debts ...liquidate all taxes...liquidate all government spending....liquidate education....roads....!  This man is completely out of his mind.  I suggest that he be put away in some island institution as he is a clear and present danger not only to himself and his family, but to all who may potentially be exposed to his toxic self.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8019960">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8019960" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8019960" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8019960">Wrong Truth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8019960" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8019960" class="dsq-comment-message">He is fruit-loopy. What is it going to be " to debt or not to debt". He\'ll take the money to pay the state debt, but doesn\'t think it\'s good to send the country into more debt by taking money for education, altough by taking the money, for anything, he\'s adding to the federal debt. "You go into debt to pay my debt." he says. What a walking-talking contradiction.It is clear his family owned slaved. Just like a slave owner, let\'s not educate. We\'ll keep it like it was before they free. And trust me, the educational system in South Carolina would pass Forest Gump off as a genius. The GOP is resting all it\'s hopes on Yogi Bear\'s(Palin) or Bullwinkle (Stanford). What a sad state of affairs. Also in \'06, when I lived there, he got in trouble for a racial slur. He\'s not going to fly in 12, 16 or ever. Palin will have the same problem.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8019893">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8019893" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8019893" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8019893">Catbutt</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8019893" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8019893" class="dsq-comment-message">The point being made is there\'s a better way. <br><br>WELL... WHAT IS IT...!!<br><br>If your way forward is so much better, why don\'t you tell us?<br><br>Leadership requires communication. Something the GOP has yet to figure out....</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8019236">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8019236" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8019236" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8019236">steve</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8019236" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8019236" class="dsq-comment-message">He is a fool, not the funny, talented kind. I called his office and asked about the Confederate flag, they said the matter was already decided. Imagine the symbolic image of a plantation-owning family (Sanford) running against a family (Michelle Obama\'s) who has real history of slavery on a Charleston/Georgetown plantation. Is Sanford going to use the Confederate flag in his ads? I sure would if I was running against him. He is a tacit supporter of the pre-Civil Rights America\'s racial policies. Should we let him try to turn all America into a plantation? That is the economic plan he is really suggesting here. A world of "owners" and "slaves."</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8018505">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8018505" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8018505" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8018505">Jackie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8018505" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8018505" class="dsq-comment-message">If South Carolina didn\'t give away the farm to Mercedes Benz - like the car company doesn\'t pay property taxes over the next 20 years (not sure about the time span) maybe the state would have some cash.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017770">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017770" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017770" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017770">Kevin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017770" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017770" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s a lot of economic "cluelessness" all around here, but not much of it is coming from Mark Sanford.  I don\'t know much about him, and he may be an idiot about lots of stuff, but he\'s absolutely right that excessive debt got us into this.  I dare say it\'s inarguable.  <br><br>That\'s where "bubbles" come from folks - too much leverage taken on to live an unearned lifestyle today, bidding up today\'s prices far beyond where they should have been (for houses, oil, corn, whatever).  The only reason we didn\'t see higher inflation in other goods is because the Chinese were selling us stuff for 15% of what it used to cost us to make it, pushing those prices artificially down..<br><br>But we had been in a grotesque bubble.  Now, government may actually succeed in re-inflating this bubble yet again ("again" because this last bubble was just a reinflation of the dot-com bubble that burst in 2000-2001) with the massive amounts of debt they are incurring on our behalf.  But even if they do so, it\'s just going to happen agian, and one of these times (maybe this one), they just won\'t be able to do it anymore.<br><br>Why do people have such a hard time understanding that taking on massive debt is no more healthy for a country than it is for an individual?  If I as an individual borrow lots of money today to live a lavish lifestyle that I haven\'t earned, can I call that "economic growth" or a "recovery"?  Maybe, but only up until I actually have to pay the money back and it all comes crashing down.<br><br>But the "economists" on this thread who seem to get their vacuous economics lessons from  <a href="http://HopeandChange.com" rel="nofollow">HopeandChange.com</a> talking point alert emails really should get a clue.  I\'m embarassed for them.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8020058">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8020058" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8020058" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8020058">Wrong Truth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8020058" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8020058" class="dsq-comment-message">Here\'s the problem with Sanford. He\'ll take the money, just not for education. He asked the White House if he could use the 700 million allotted for education to pay down the state\'s debt. If he takes any or part, he\'s adding to the national debt, so how does he say he\'s against it.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8019386">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8019386" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8019386" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8019386">putitupmike</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8019386" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8019386" class="dsq-comment-message">You are right to be embarrassed, cuz you  are clueless, in addition to regurgitating incorrect information.  Spending by the collective "us" did not get us here.  Try as you may the facts cannot be disputed.  Greed got us here.  Greed and a bunch of MBA\'s eho decided that there was no meaningful regulation and what there was was underfunded and years behind.  They invented instruments which were "FAKE, and FRAUD."   They paid credit rating bureaus to falsify their work, and sold the result all over the world.  Don\'t you try to blame this mess on us!  This is not about debt, this is about  fraud, misrepresentation and a lack of Government oversight.  It is Mark Sanford\'s overspending, if South Carolina is in debt.  You will try to blame their problems on a Democratic Legislature, but you better do some fact checking if you do.  Stop trying to place the blame on us and allow it to fall where it belongs.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8018794">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8018794" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8018794" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8018794">sigh</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8018794" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8018794" class="dsq-comment-message">Um no. The crisis was sparked by over leveraged banks, and idiotic investment practices. Blame does not reside in a single party either. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act started it (under Clinton).<br><br>1) Banks make loans to people with bad credit and insufficient income at stupid rates to buy houses. They convince the rubes that they just have to hold the house for a while and refi as soon as the value has gone up enough to pay back the loan (cause real estate will increase in value... exponentially... forever... right)<br><br>2) Banks package these loans into mortgage backed securities and sell them to investors. The way that they were structured meant that the attached S&P rating was essentially pointless but investors bought them anyways. Fed was holding down rates so you had lots of money flying around. So now the bad mortgages have been distributed around and the poison spreads. As an added bonus folks like AIG insure these bad investments.<br><br>3) Continues like this for a while until the housing bubble becomes unsustainable and they run out of buyers. Lack of buyers pushes down price. Pushed down price means the idiots in 1) can\'t refi to pay back the loan they should have never gotten in the first place. They foreclose, adding another house to the market, driving prices down further, causing a cascading foreclosure problem.<br><br>4) Banks panic, seeing their house of cards collapse around them and suddenly realize no one is willing to buy their MBSs anymore. So now they are sitting on bad debt and realized they are over leveraged 25:1. Hence credit crunch.<br><br><br>So yes, you and Gov Sanford are both clueless. What do you do in bad times? Deficit spend. It worked in the past and will work now (or are you one of the loons who believes that FDR caused the depression or some other nonsense?). Problem is that you are supposed to then NOT deficit spend in good times and actually build a surplus. That way when the next bubble comes around, you have the surplus to deficit spend without causing harmful levels of inflation.<br><br>Yes, our society\'s spending habits are incredibly naive and foolish. Spending forever and building ever larger deficits is a time bomb that must be stopped as soon as possible. But not now. If you don\'t deficit spend in a recession, it can turn into a depression.<br><br>What is worse: building a trillion in debt or, 20% unemployment, deflation, and collapse of world trade. Wait don\'t answer. I\'ve had enough wingnuttery for today. Just go ahead and move along with your economics expertise you got from fox business or CNBC while the rest of us profit in the climate.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017604">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017604" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017604" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017604">jjgg5</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017604" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017604" class="dsq-comment-message">If Governor Sanford does not want stimulus money for South Carolina, I\'d like to request that he call the pragmatic, Democratic Governor of my state (Ohio),  Ted Strickland.  I\'m sure Governor Strickland would appreciate the extra money to stimulate Ohio\'s economy and create more jobs for the State\'s hard working people.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017628">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017628" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017628" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017628">t</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017628" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017628" class="dsq-comment-message">even clinton admitted dems to blame for crisis.dodd,frank,reid,and pulosi working with obama will surely destroy this country    go socialism</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017710">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017710" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017710" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017710">Edd</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017710" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017710" class="dsq-comment-message">Now try telling the truth.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017936">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017936" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017936" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017936">t</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017936" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017936" class="dsq-comment-message">i am. quit lissening to oprah</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8018370">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8018370" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8018370" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8018370">t-</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8018370" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8018370" class="dsq-comment-message">I never "lissened" to Oprah in the first place. Why don\'t you stop drinking the Kool Aid. Maybe then we can work on getting your head out of your @ss.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8018628">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8018628" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8018628" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8018628">Edd</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8018628" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8018628" class="dsq-comment-message">"i am. quit lissening to oprah"<br><br>"I never "lissened" to Oprah in the first place."<br><br>See, you still don\'t know the truth!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8018614">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8018614" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8018614" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8018614">t</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8018614" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8018614" class="dsq-comment-message">try economics.  learn the outcome of policy so you can make money in stocks. for instance obama wasted so much money on his socialistic agenda that we had to print money.the inflation that is coming will cripple the poor.but i will make money in oil and food because of the shortages that will come.its a game .YOU CANT RELY ON GOVERNMENT IT WONT WORK</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8018697">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8018697" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8018697" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8018697">Edd</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8018697" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8018697" class="dsq-comment-message">Now you are a comedian.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8018752">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8018752" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8018752" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8018752">t</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8018752" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8018752" class="dsq-comment-message">yea but i bet you buy oil stocks</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017588">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017588" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017588" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017588">Ruth</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017588" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017588" class="dsq-comment-message">He doesn\'t have to worry about his children going to college, or feeding them! He is a white male driven to power at any means. I hope The People of South Carolina put his ass  out office before his term is over. He is a complet e JACK ASS with abow tie!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017486">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017486" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017486" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017486">Dee_AZ</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017486" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017486" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, there is a way other than straddling our children with more debt--So. Carolina can simply have more tent cities as more people loose their jobs and their homes.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8021506">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8021506" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8021506" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8021506">rami</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8021506" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8021506" class="dsq-comment-message">This is why we need Education!  It\'s "lose" not loose. Please Sanford, give the kids a chance to be educated!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017474">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017474" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017474" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017474">SquallCloud</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017474" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017474" class="dsq-comment-message">Notice... he didn\'t say that better way. If there is a better way speak up! Let us all in on it. If it\'s that same tired rhetoric that lead to the abundance of prosperity we\'re in today, then cram it.<br><br>Translation: When we were buying bombers and cool war stuff we went NUTS with the surplus that Clinton left us. Now that Obama wants to invest in icky old American interests such as jobs and health care we need to stop this run away train of spending!</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017217">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017217" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017217" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017217">sigh</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017217" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017217" class="dsq-comment-message">Recession caused by debt? Is he totally clueless? In order to offer a solution to a problem, it\'s best to actually UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM before talking out of your a** with "solutions".<br><br>Idiots.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8016220">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8016220" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8016220" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8016220">Delores</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8016220" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8016220" class="dsq-comment-message">I certainly hope the voters in his state, will remember his decision on the stimulus...when and if, he should<br>run for anything in that state again!   He is truly politically profiling!  How selfish can one get????</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8016082">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8016082" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8016082" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8016082">Jack Linthicum</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8016082" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8016082" class="dsq-comment-message">How much does that ad cost? Where will it play?</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8015986">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8015986" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8015986" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8015986">ant</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8015986" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8015986" class="dsq-comment-message">sanford is one of the best next to ron paul in the republican party</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017654">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017654" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017654" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017654">Edd</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017654" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017654" class="dsq-comment-message">Obviously you don\'t live in South Carolina. Officially it has the second highest unemployment rate in the nation (in reality it is the highest because we have long-term unemployed folks who have long been removed from the count; and still are not working). Yet, idiots like you are proud to support the king idiots who places MONEY before people. Oh, did the Governor tell you that he is selling his 3.5 million dollar summer house because he no longer needs it for HIS children? By-the-way, he still has NOT made any effort towards repairing that school that he said South Carolina was able to take care for itself. If this guy doesn’t give a crap about the people in the state where he was raised and lives, then what makes you believe that he gives a crap about YOU?? Do you really want him to become President of the USA?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8015951">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8015951" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8015951" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8015951">ant</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8015951" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8015951" class="dsq-comment-message">deregulation is the answer /private secter is the answer /sociolism is not</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017145">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017145" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017145" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017145">Duh</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017145" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017145" class="dsq-comment-message">Deregulation is what put us in this spot dip stick.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8015841">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8015841" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8015841" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8015841">ant</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8015841" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8015841" class="dsq-comment-message">bush is a regulater stupid , bush never deregulated</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8015581">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8015581" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8015581" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8015581">Lyssa</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8015581" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8015581" class="dsq-comment-message">Cut more taxes reducing your state\'s income and overcrowd schools severely putting South Carolina students behind the rest of the country. Sounds solid, keep up the GREAT work!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8015003">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8015003" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8015003" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8015003">Chuck</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8015003" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8015003" class="dsq-comment-message">Just wondering, who presided over the SC budget that put it in that debt in the first place?  Who lowered taxes, drove their education system to dead last out of 50 states and thinks that taking the money that they didn\'t earn which was allocated for education and instead wants to redirect it to pay down the debt that they incurred?  As far as I\'m concerned, they don\'t have to accept a red cent.  Just don\'t complain that the money isn\'t going to go to pay off your irresponsibility up until now.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017539">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017539" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017539" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017539">David</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017539" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017539" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmm, it was OK that Clinton lead Arkansas to dead last in education.  Are you that transparent of a partisan or do you just choose to ignore facts that don\'t play to your way of thinkinG?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8015553">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8015553" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8015553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8015553">Trappedinaredstate</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8015553" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8015553" class="dsq-comment-message">Due to term limitatons, Sanford can\'t be elected again in SC, that makes it very easy for him to use the people of SC for his own political ambitions. As a South Carolinian, our state is always dead last in good things and head of the class in bad things. We have many counties in our state that are dirt poor. Our education money comes from the state and from local counties combined. This has lead to such a disparity between the rich counties and the poor ones. Sanford is an idiot and if he\'s the best the Repubs can come up with in 2012, may the farce be with them. Of course having said that, he\'d carry the old confederacy anbd Alaska - Sanford/Palin or Palin/Sanford - what a pair.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8016559">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8016559" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8016559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8016559">JillQ</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8016559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8016559" class="dsq-comment-message">You are someone South Carolina should be proud of.  In Kansas, our education money comes from the state and from local counties combined as well.  And our Republican-led legislature has tried to cut back our education funds, but our Governor, Kathleen Sebelius has steadfastly vowed to veto any budget that included cutting education.  It\'s too bad the great state of South Carolina has no one but Sanford as its leader.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8014909">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8014909" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8014909" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8014909">Hawaiianstyle</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8014909" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8014909" class="dsq-comment-message">Gov.  you need to check your facts.  Too much debt did not cause the problem.  It was too little control which allowed the greed factor to become too much in control.  That is unregulated capitalism at its best (worst).<br><br>When the greedy are going wild the resilience of the market is very low.  The greedy are always after more money, and at the same time afraid they will lose what they have accumulated.<br><br>If you want to win the minds of those that care.  Propose an investigation as to the causes of the present crash and solutions so it cannot happen again.  (I know.  You know that if you did this you would be so unpopular with the greedy Republicans that you would not be elected.)  Leadership is hard.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017502">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017502" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017502" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017502">t</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017502" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017502" class="dsq-comment-message">i disagree.the reform of the cra in 98 started this.banks were fine until forced to give bad loans.government intervention NEVER WORKS.less regulation and low taxes will.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8017689">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8017689" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8017689" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8017689">Edd</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8017689" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8017689" class="dsq-comment-message">Now lets try thinking goofy.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8014856">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8014856" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8014856" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8014856">penalcolony</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8014856" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8014856" class="dsq-comment-message">When was the last time anyone saw Sanford\'s real hairline?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
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	if(dsq_anchorEl) { Dsq.Thread.ac = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_anchorEl, 'color'); }
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, (Dsq.Utils.ie || window.opera ? 'fontFamily' : 'font-family'));
	// For Safari / Opera: strip quotes.
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Thread.ff.replace(/['"]/g, '');
	Dsq.Thread.fc = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.fc);
	Dsq.Thread.ac = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ac);
	Dsq.Thread.ff = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ff);

	
	
	
	if(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer)) {
		// TODO: Check to see if theme uses postmessage.
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.textareaContainer));
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].init(function() {
				// Use fallback iframe
				Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer).innerHTML = '';
				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=washingtonindependent&t=gov_mark_sanford_launches_anti_stimulus_tv_ad&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	




if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

})();




