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THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO RECORD OF HER EVER LEAVING THE COUNTRY UNTIL YEARS LATER WHEN SHE MARRIED HER SECOND HUSBAND AND MOVED TO INDONESIA, AND BARACK OBAMA HAD LONG BEEN BORN IN HAWAII.<br>President Obama's father's family in Kenya was very opposed to the marriage of Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham, and as such made much ado that if he chose to disobey them and marry her anyway that he (Obama Sr. ) would be disowned from the family and not allowed back. Why then would a pregnant Stanley Ann Dunham travel to Kenya where she was not wanted? Because SHE DID NOT! 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Able to have edges?<br>Learn to write!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-08-19_13:03:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "heretoolong", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "3 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 13091479, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11958533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh good lord. I made it all up to make a point. The birthers are big on m aking stuff up, too.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_23:56:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "krisi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11953370, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "13294726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "YOU ARE WRONG!  STANELY ANN DUNHAM WAS A U.S. BORN CITIZEN, SHE DID NOT HAVE TO \"MEET\" ANY RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT UNDER YOUR MADE UP HAWAIIAN LAW.  She married Obama senior when she was 18 y/o, and had President Obama when she was 19 y/o. That is NOT UNDERAGE.  There was no treaty with Kenya for \"dual citizenship\". In order for a child to have \"dual citizenship\" the parents or parent has to be a citizen of a country where the U.S. has a treaty where \"dual citizenship\" is granted.  Kenya was not and still is not one of those countries.  <br>By the way, idiot, having dual citizenship does not dilue ones citizenship of where one was born!  It only means that that child is a citizen of both countries, until the legal age of 18, at which time, and if they don't chose, they become sole citizens of the country where they are residing at the time. BARACK OBAMA WAS NEVER BARRY SOETORO! The school he attended in Indonesia made the assumption that his last name was that of the husband of his mother, that does not mean that his name was ever officially changed or that Mr. Soetoro ever adopted him. 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Thought so!<br>You imbeciles believe that President Obama would have been granted the highest level of national security clearance in the country by just presenting his smile? You think that the national security officials (who at the time were under Bush) wouls have just bypassed all the required documentation requirements, authentication, etc. because they thought President-elect Obama was just so charming?  He was vetted by the appropriate authorities, and he was more vetted than any past President, believe me!  <br>You people are full of crap and those of you who do happen to be U.S. citizens should get your citizenship revoked for doing what you are doing.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-24_18:34:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "f84bdc820c6096f7195b2a77ddda4e04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12053286, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12878218": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, since their favorite kooky presidential candidate-in-waiting, Sarah Palin, reportedly flew a several leg flight to return to Alaska after going into labor, I guess this crazy suggestion seems reasonable to them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-18_10:01:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "957aea086bc6e98f3c27edef83abb772", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "13180939": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey you dumb libs.<br><br>Pat Boone went on a journey to the Center of Earth and fought dinosaurs and everything so I would think he knows a thing or two about Obamas birth!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-22_20:21:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "50a2a00e7ae15d4b37f7a6287d835e35", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12157324": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you are born to an American citizen, then you can be president. Get over it conspiracy nuts, because it doesn't matter if he was born in outer space, mama was American! Maybe the nuts won't be satisfied until they see his mom's birth certificate also! well, you can't convince people who are wrong in the head anyway.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-04_14:12:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "556009b3f3d5b90125008ed5e05075e8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11945106": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Where Is The Birth Certificate?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_15:22:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "oldgadawg", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11931540": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Do you see that part of the statute that you copied that says: \"[L 1982, c 182, \u00a71]?\"<br><br>That means that that particular statute was enacted in 1982.  <br><br>Obama was born in 1961.<br><br>You lose, sucker.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_09:09:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11928411, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "13091479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "During the time the appointing committee in the senate was looking up McCain's edgeability, it was discovered Obama wasn't edgeable at all. They overlooked this and its been a cover up ever since.They are just as guilty as the constitutional lawyer who knew he was not edgeable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-21_23:13:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "theyworkforus", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12157012, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12822554": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Proof?<br><br><br>I din't think so.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-17_13:25:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "cjk002", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12646396, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11923739": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How you tell when politician lie?<br><br>Comrade Pelosi blink<br><br>Slick Willy rub nose<br><br>Dumb Donkey Gibbs laugh...Hehaw..he..haw..he..haw!<br><br>I Igor produce Barrack Milhaus Hussein Obama Birth Certificate at <a href=\"http://www.igormarxo.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.igormaro.org</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_23:43:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "igormarxomarxovich", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11949499": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "---Maya was born in Jakarta Indonesia and has the very same COLB Obama has.----<br><br>prove it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_17:26:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11928411, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11922949": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What was that fake press guy who was in the white house press pool during the last administraion...the one that was actually paid by Republican organizations...oh yeah, he was a Homer Sexual.<br><br>Dude if you think that no gay people arrived in the White House before 2009, you got some 'splainin' to do to Mr Cheney's daughter.<br><br>Ahem", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_23:25:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "24wienersaheaddotcom", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11928411": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama has a sister named Maya.<br>Maya was born in Jakarta Indonesia and has the very same COLB Obama has.<br><br>This law makes it possible.<br><br>Hawaiian state law allows children born outside Hawaii get valid Hawaiian birth certificates (S. 338-17.8)<br><br>[\u00a7338-17.8] Certificates for children born out of State. (a) Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health shall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that proof has been submitted to the director of health that the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child.<br><br>(b) Proof of legal residency shall be submitted to the director of health in any manner that the director shall deem appropriate. The director of health may also adopt any rules pursuant to chapter 91 that he or she may deem necessary or proper to prevent fraudulent applications for birth certificates and to require any further information or proof of events necessary for completion of a birth certificate.<br><br>(c) The fee for each application for registration shall be established by rule adopted pursuant to chapter 91. [L 1982, c 182, \u00a71]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_05:21:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "c333e83304975e0418f1a1ef1458d048", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 5, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11948068": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Fuck Pat Boone!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_16:43:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "chubasco", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12693669": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re: \"Stanley Ann Dunham-Obama did fly to Kenya but was not allowed in 1961 to board the propjob out of there due to the late stage of her pregnancy. Hence baby Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya. If he has nothing to hide why is he hiding it?\"<br><br>There is no evidence that Stanley ever flew to Kenya. It is all made up. So is the part about her not being allowed on the plane back to Hawaii. (There were, by the way, no direct flights from Kenya to Hawaii in those days.) All made up.<br><br>If Obama had been born in Kenya there would have to be documents showing that he was born in Kenya. Among them would be US government documents that could not be sealed by Kenya. And, those government documents would be in the files of the US State Department, which was under the control of the Republicans until the election and for three months after it.<br><br>I am referring to visa files or records of a change to a Stanley's US passport in Kenya. If Obama had been born in Kenya, and he was born in Hawaii of course, but IF he were born in Kenya, there would be no way that he could get into the USA without some kind of travel document. He would either have to receive a new British passport and get a US visa on it, or he would have to be entered on his mother's US passport while she was in Kenya (if she was in Kenya, and she wasn't). Either of those situations would require documents and records, which would still exist and could not be sealed. They would be in the files of the US State Department, and if they existed would have been found by now. <br><br>Then there is the remarkable assumption that a woman who had gone to Kenya and given birth would keep it secret all her life. Why should she? Most people who do anything unusual, and going to Kenya and giving birth would be, would tell people about it. But no, there are no reports from friends saying that she did.<br><br>Then there is the remarkable assumption that somehow Stanley was able to come back from Ken ya (if she ever went there) with an infant and somehow create documents that show that he was born in Hawaii. Why would she do it? How could she do it? <br><br>Why aren't there any photos of her in Kenya, if she went to Kenya? Why aren't there any photos of Obama with his grandparents, if he was born in Kenya? <br><br>If the files in Kenya are \"sealed\", why is it that WND is the only source that claims that there are files in Kenya that are sealed? <br><br>So, there is no proof that Obama was born in Kenya and a lot of circumstantial evidence making it highly unlikely (such as the fact that his mother would have had to get a Yellow Fever shot to travel to Africa, and that is very bad during pregnancy). On the other side of the coin, we have a legal government document from Hawaii listing his place of birth as Honolulu, and we have the two officials who looked into the file and said that there was an original birth certificate in the file, and we have the PR spokeswoman from that department who calls the Chicago Tribune and says that the fact that there is an original birth certificate in the file means that Obama was born in Hawaii (because foreign birth certificates could not be entered into the file at the time). <a href=\"http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/11/obama_hawaaianborn_citizen_for.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog...</a><br>Does this mean Obama was born in Hawaii?<br><br>\"Yes,\" said Hawaii Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo, in both email and telephone interviews with the Tribune. \"That's what Dr. Fukino is saying.\"", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-15_10:20:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "smrstrauss", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12646396, "depth": 1, "points": 2, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12053286": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Alftird posting here is a paid blogger on Obama's payroll. Google his name and birth certificate. He has been blogging on this 24/7 since last year.<br><br>The facts are simple. Producing a photograph of a certification of live birth to a website does not rise to vetting of a candidate. <br><br>We all know that the State of Hawaii is holding the original vault birth certificate, that despite Altird's assertions, is readily available should Obama sign a release and pay $10.00. <br><br>The vault or original birth certificate is the only document that will list the hospital where Obama claims to have been born, the doctors and any witnesses. The question is why Obama has refused to produce it. People and Obama need to be judged by their actions. Obama's actions speak to someone that is trying to hide something. Whether it is something embarrassing or if it would show Obama is ineligible for the office will only be know once that document is produced. It is only a matter of time until it is produced.<br><br>Go ahead Altird jump in here and say how the vault birth certificate can never be produced, it is against Hawaii law, or that the other political party is responsible for vetting candidates or the other nonsense you post.<br><br>Obama is a one term president over this issue. If all Obama can produce is the photo of a certification of live birth it will not get him on the primary ballot in 2012.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_20:05:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Doc3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "13294890": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Right, you want us to believe that the all White Senate committee would hammer at McCain's elegeability (for what to be U.S. Senator? why all of a sudden, he has been a Senator for years), and \"discover\" that Obama was not elegible (for what you don't specify), but decided to overlook it?  Makes no sense, if anythying it would be the reverse, they would overlook McCain's elegiblity issue and hammer at Black Barack Obama.  Don't try this crap!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-24_18:28:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "f84bdc820c6096f7195b2a77ddda4e04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 13091479, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11934087": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "State law here is irrelavant. 'Out of State' implicitly assumes another state within the US. if your interpreation of the law were correct, which it is not, grown children of illegal aliens could haul to hawaii, establish addresses for a year, and become citizens. The end.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_10:29:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1270ebb0eb6f54669510c438edaa4e8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11928411, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12362926": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Mama may have given up her citizenship when she married a Kenyan-Brit. She was underage and did not meet the residency requirement under Hawaiian-law at that time. The father's citizenship would have allowed for dual-citizenship at best. How about Obama show everybody his original longform Birth Certificate, college applications where he might have applied as a foreigner, his passport records to Pakistan, his official name-change back to Obama from Barry Soetoro which was his legal name when a citizen of Indonesia(the MOST Moslem country in the world) and why doesn't Michelle accompany him to countries under shariah-law? Because Obama is viewed by those countries as a Moslem and his wife would have to wear a burkha.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-08_23:40:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "RedGraham", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12729647": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The ONLY evidence Obama has is a computer image of a Hawaiian COLB. His father was a Kenyan-Brit & his underage mother did not meet the US residency requirement at that time. Where is the Birth Certificate? College applications & records? and How do you explain a passport to Pakistan in 1981? He was a citizen of Indonesia adopted by an Indonesian and his name was Barry Soetoro. He never changed his name back to Obama. I will give this mission up when they pry my cold dead fingers from the keyboard. The man is an imposter.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-16_02:03:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "RedGraham", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12090674": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CVB - <br><br>Hey, idiot.  Did you even click the link which takes you TO the birth cert before spouting off your innane, moronic, traitorous ramblings?<br><br>DIAF.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-03_17:19:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "61cccb73c1d2f5f63dfa552d65ffc38a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11931701": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obamabitch once posted the following on another forum:<br><br>---<br><br>\"I AM NOT HUNG UP ON THE FACT THAT OBAMAS MOTHER WAS A WHITE SLUT. I AM JUST CURIOUS WHY IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FIRST \"BLACK\" PRESIDENT OF THE US. AND HE ISN'T EVEN BLACK.\"<br><br>----<br><br>What a maroon", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_09:16:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "13300407": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In a message dated 7/24/2009 6:12:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  <br> writes:<br><br>A refuge  seeking asylum in this country could have a Natural born U.S. <br>citizen if her  child is born on U.S. soil.  That does not change the <br>citizenship of the  mother.  <br><br><br>Yes. What counts is where the child is born, not the citizenship of either  <br>parent.<br> <br>And that is why such prominent conservative Senators who are also lawyers  <br>as Orren Hatch and Lindsay Graham say that a Natural Born Citizen is simply <br>one  who was born in the USA:<br> <br>Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said:<br> <br>\u201cEvery child born in the United States is a natural-born United States  <br>citizen except for the children of diplomats.\u201d (December 11, 2008 letter to  <br>constituent)<br> <br>Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT), said:<br> <br>\u201cWhat is a natural born citizen? Clearly, someone born within the United  <br>States or one of its territories is a natural born citizen.\u201d (Senate <br>Judiciary  Committee hearing hearing on OCTOBER 5, 2004)<br> <br>  And:<br> <br>Gov. Bobby Jindal, who delivered the Republican response to Obama\u2019s speech, <br> said: \u201cRegardless of party, all Americans are moved by the President\u2019s <br>personal  story - the son of an American mother and a Kenyan father, who grew <br>up to become  leader of the free world.\u201d<br> <br>Jindal, of course, would be even less of a citizen under Vattel\u2019s concept  <br>because neither of his parents were citizens at the time of his birth. His  <br>mother was about three months pregnant when they came to the USA.<br><br><br><br>**************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy <br>steps! <br>(<a href=\"http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377105x1201454426/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=115&bcd\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377...</a><br>=JulystepsfooterNO115)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-24_21:55:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "smrstrauss", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 13294299, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "13091259": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The truth will come out. His tracks have been covered but there is someone out there that will come out to uncover this massive take over of the United States of America. Too many seeking the truth and he will be exposed soon. The take over will soon be the big take out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-21_23:05:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "theyworkforus", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "11949245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "right here.<br><br><a href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/06/13/bobirthcertificate.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shared/image.h...</a><br><br>That is a legal document issued by the State of Hawaii.<br><br>It states quite clearly that he was born in Honolulu.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_17:18:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11945106, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11923893": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Previous President takes nation to war.<br><br>Not the same as blinking or laughing, I agree.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_23:49:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "24wienersaheaddotcom", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "13272896": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This should be simple to sort out.<br><br>Did Ann Durham have a U.S. Passport at that time?<br>Was she granted a Visa to travel to Kenya before the birth?<br>Are there any records of her returning to the USA during that year?<br><br>Another little item the Birthers choose to ignore is the Hawaiian policy against giving out birth certificates to foreign born babies, and the fact that Baby Barack was born in the Hawiian hospital according to the BC on file.  You would have to be kinda stoopid to believe that the hospital would be in on the scam, or that the Durhams would go to that much trouble to ensure the baby could be eligible to be US president someday.  A special kind of stoopid.  But, that's our Pat Boone the Baffoon.  I remember that 30 years ago that idiot claimed that he still spanked his 20 year old daughter Debbie- and would continue to do so until she married and the ass whipping rights were transferred to her husband.  You can't fix stoopid.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-24_10:57:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "ee9e88027d651ebf2b80ccdfe8fb5220", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "11932230": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Pat Boone had a scene in one of his movies where he was buck naked, grasping a sheep and pulling it toward him, in the presence of several nuns. His column in the WingNut Daily often provides laughs for his whacky thoughts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_09:34:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "9db2e8a953ae8990fdc2480f55961008", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11928397": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "OBAMA IS JUST SO DAMN UGLY. LECK!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_05:19:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "c333e83304975e0418f1a1ef1458d048", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11931599": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can cut and paste also<br><br>-------<br><br>Question: What is the state's policy for issuing a \"Certification of Live Birth\" versus a \"Certificate of Live Birth\"? My first, second and fourth children received certificates, but my third and fifth children received certifications. Why the difference? The certificate contains more information, such as the name of hospital, certifier's name and title; attendant's name and title, etc. The certification has only the child's name, date and time of birth, sex, city/island/county of birth, mother's maiden name, mother's race, father's name and father's race. Why doesn't the state just issue certificates? When did it stop issuing certificates? Is it possible to obtain certificates for my third and fifth children?<br><br>Answer: No, you can't obtain a \"certificate of live birth\" anymore.<br><br>The state Department of Health no longer issues copies of paper birth certificates as was done in the past, said spokeswoman Janice Okubo.<br><br>The department only issues \"certifications\" of live births, and that is the \"official birth certificate\" issued by the state of Hawaii, she said.<br><br>And, it's only available in electronic form.<br><br>Okubo explained that the Health Department went paperless in 2001.<br><br>\"At that time, all information for births from 1908 (on) was put into electronic files for consistent reporting,\" she said.<br><br>Information about births is transferred electronically from hospitals to the department.<br><br>\"The electronic record of the birth is what (the Health Department) now keeps on file in order to provide same-day certified copies at our help window for most requests,\" Okubo said.<br><br>Asked for more information about the short-form versus long-form birth documents, Okubo said the Health Department \"does not have a short-form or long-form certificate.\"<br><br>\"The birth certificate form has been modified over the years and decades to conform to national standards and models,\" she said.<br><br>Okubo also emphasized the certification form \"contains all the information needed by all federal government agencies for transactions requiring a birth certificate.\"<br><br>She added that the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the state's current certification of live birth \"as an official birth certificate meeting all federal and other requirements.\"<br><br>-------<br><br><a href=\"http://www.starbulletin.com/columnists/kokualine/20090606_kokua_line.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.starbulletin.com/columnists/kokualin...</a><br><br>You lose again, sucker", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_09:11:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11928188, "depth": 1, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11949539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Actually if the children of illegal aliens were born in the U.S., then they are automatically natural born citizens.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_17:28:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "alferd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11934087, "depth": 2, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12157012": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "You people don't even realize that your obsessive need to see Barack Obama's birth certificate reveals you to be a bigot. No, not because he's black, but because he's black AND you've never insisted on any white presidential candidate to do the same. If these buffoons were as obsessed during the election to get McCain's birth certificate as they are about Obama, then they'd have a point. After all, McCain was born IN PANAMA. Less than this, though reveals BIGOTRY. Obama is a proud American, just like you, not matter if you have less melanin in your skin. Dopes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-04_13:50:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "mistercrispy", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 3, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11923876": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow,<br>Look at all the blind obongo-nots on here- see ya later libtards.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_23:49:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "The_Faster_Gun", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11953370": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "So, because, you have a friend ,and he has an anubt, who knows the doctor who delivered Sarah palin, and because your aunt \"says,\" that the senior Palins are card carrying communists, well now we sure have positive proof don't we. Sure is a lot of heresay in here. One can get lost going on this wild goosechase. try this on for size. The US Senate in 2008, examind, sen. McCain to check out his elligibility to run for President, since he was born in the US Panama Canal Zone . The Senate said, that Natural born citizen, for becomming President, requires TWO US citizen parents, who are only US citizens and no dual citizenships allowed to count in order for a baby born in the US to be elligible for president. barak Obama sr. was a dual citizen with UK and US citizenship, thus his son is NOT a natural born citizen, and is NOT elligible to be president. .", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_20:11:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "ilsnowbird", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11923033, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "13294299": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A \"Natural Born Citizen\" is someone born on U.S. Soil. It has absolutely nothing to do with the nationality or citizenship of the parents.  <br>A refuge seeking asylum in this country could have a Natural born U.S. citizen if her child is born on U.S. soil.  That does not change the citizenship of the mother.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-24_18:11:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "f84bdc820c6096f7195b2a77ddda4e04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12453995, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12057437": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Where's the true BC? i do not need Pat Boone (a great man) to point this out, that the document should have been showed a long time ago. Obama should leave the WH and go directly to jail for defrauding people if he was born in Kenya which it seems otherwise he would have shown it", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-02_22:39:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "9540bc1dd28abb9a87175c90820d991f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "13302750": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Boone: \"USJF theorizes she flew with him to Oahu and obtained some kind of \u201crecord of birth\u201d as if he\u2019d been born there.\"<br><br>And I 'theorize' that Boone has in his old age, confuses pure speculation with fact.  Furthermore I 'theorize' that having a limited sense of discrimination in processing information, accords a more elevated status upon the \"USJF\" than is justified.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-24_23:36:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "r22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "12448187": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re: a very pregnant 18-year-old woman taking a transatlantic flight makes perfect sense to Boone et al.\"<br><br>It would have been far more  than transatlantic. It would have been from Hawaii to Kenya, and there were no direct flights. So it would have had to be via Tokyo or via New York. Along the lines of: Hawaii, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, New Deli, Teheran, Cairo, and finally Nairobi Kenya (and  the same to return, of course). Someone has worked out that at best, with all connecting flights working perfectly, it would have taken at least 24 hours, and in those days planes were poorly pressurized, AND you had to get a Yellow Fever shot to visit Africa, which is bad during pregnancy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-10_11:46:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "smrstrauss", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}, "11928548": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yah. He looks like the love child of Opie and alfalfa. lol", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_05:36:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "c333e83304975e0418f1a1ef1458d048", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11923033": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "A friend of mine's aunt knows the doctor who delivered Sarah Palin. She says Sarah Palin's parents are card carrying Communists and groomed her to be president from the Republican Party, because Republicans are so easy to fool with the God-military-family-values-free-enterprise stuff.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_23:29:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "krisi", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "11929448": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From <a href=\"http://www.ocweekly.com/2009-06-18/news/orly-taitz/4\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a>:<br><br> the Pakistan \u201ctravel ban\u201d is a complete fabrication based on zero evidence and completely contradicted by State Department records and a 1981 New York Times article. The full transcript from Obama\u2019s grandmother shows that she never said he was born in Kenya\u2014in fact, she repeatedly said he was born in Hawaii. <b>The law allowing foreign-born children to obtain Hawaiian COLBs didn\u2019t exist until 20 years after Obama was born, while Obama\u2019s published COLB says his birth information was recorded four days after his birth in 1961.</b><br><br>Moron.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_07:01:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "b2095605e5c9b5857f1246168377a11b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 11928411, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11928188": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "The really strange part to this story<br>Is the extent Obama has gone to to keep from showing his long form birth certificate.<br><br>Comparison to a real one and the COLB placed on the internet.<br><br><a href=\"http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101483\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=10...</a><br><br>All of us can see what a real one looks like in the above link.<br>The one on the internet is a joke.<br><br>Then the utterly incredible fact that McCains birth place came up and reported on and defined by an open debate in Congress, yet not done with Obama, who has more problems than McCain had.<br>(who also showed his long form)<br><br>McCain\u2019s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out<br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28mccain.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/2...</a><br><br>* Nightly News with Brian Williams<br><br>McCain's citizenship called into question<br><a href=\"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23415028\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23415028</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_05:02:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "c333e83304975e0418f1a1ef1458d048", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12453995": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Re: \"The Senate said, that Natural born citizen, for becomming President, requires TWO US citizen parents, who are only US citizens and no dual citizenships allowed to count in order for a baby born in the US to be elligible for president.\"<br><br>Baloney. The Senate did not do anything like that. It passed a special resolution for McCain, a friend, that said that for McCain, and McCain alone, the situation was that he had two US parents and was born on a US base and hence was eligible. This does not mean that everyone has to have two US parents to be eligible. It does not mean that everyone has to be born on a US base to be eligible. It just means (and it does not even have the force of law, which requires two houses of Congress and signature of the President), that the Senate considered that McCain was just as eligible as Obama, and Obama voted for it.<br><br>The original definition of \"Natural Born\" means born in the country. The term was used in the Colonies before the revolution. Anyone born in a colony was considered a \"Natural Born Subject.\" When the Constutition was written, they used the new term Citizen for the old term Subject. But the definition of Natural Born was the same.<br><br>If there had been any change in the meaning from simply \"born in the country,\" the writers of the constitution would certainly have told us. <br>And that is why such prominent conservative Senators who are also lawyers as Orren Hatch and Lindsay Graham say that a Natural Born Citizen is simply one who was born in the USA:<br><br>Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said:<br><br>\u201cEvery child born in the United States is a natural-born United States citizen except for the children of diplomats.\u201d (December 11, 2008 letter to constituent)<br><br>Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT), said:<br><br>\u201cWhat is a natural born citizen? Clearly, someone born within the United States or one of its territories is a natural born citizen.\u201d (Senate Judiciary Committee hearing hearing on OCTOBER 5, 2004)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-10_12:53:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "smrstrauss", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11928168": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama has a sister named Maya.<br>Maya was born in Jakarta Indonesia and has the very same COLB Obama has.<br><br>This law makes it possible.<br><br>Hawaiian state law allows children born outside Hawaii get valid Hawaiian birth certificates (S. 338-17.8)<br><br>[\u00a7338-17.8] Certificates for children born out of State. (a) Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health shall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that proof has been submitted to the director of health that the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child.<br><br>(b) Proof of legal residency shall be submitted to the director of health in any manner that the director shall deem appropriate. The director of health may also adopt any rules pursuant to chapter 91 that he or she may deem necessary or proper to prevent fraudulent applications for birth certificates and to require any further information or proof of events necessary for completion of a birth certificate.<br><br>(c) The fee for each application for registration shall be established by rule adopted pursuant to chapter 91. [L 1982, c 182, \u00a71]", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-30_05:00:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "c333e83304975e0418f1a1ef1458d048", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "13293908": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "All your fantasies have already been debunked.  His father was Kenyan on a studen visa in Hawaii. He met Stanley Ann Dunham in college, she was 18 y/o when they wed, in Hawaii. His mother, a U.S. born citizen did not have to meet \"U.S. residency requirements\" for anything, she was a U.S. citizen!   President Obama was born in Hawaii when his mother was 19 y/o. His mother NEVER traveled to Kenya, either before or after President Obama's birth.  When President Obama's father ( Barack Obama Sr.) decided he wanted to marry Stanely Ann Dunham, his family in Kenya were totally opposed to it, and told him that if he married her that he should never return to them. So it would make no sense for Ann Dunham to have gone to Kenya when she was pregnant anyway.  They all remained in Hawaii until President Obama's father graduated from the Univesity, he (the father) received a full scholarship to attend Harvard Graduate School, and left Ann Dunham with baby Barack Obama in Hawaii with her parents. His father never returned to Hawaii until years later for a short visit.  When Barack Obama was 4 years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya after graduating from Harvard graduate School. Obama Sr. then pursued his doctorate degree somewhere else (I can't recall where).  After their divorce, Ann Dunham met another university student, fell in love and married him.  Her second husband never adopted Barack Obama. Barack Obama went to live with his mother and her new husband in Indonesia for a few years--between the ages of 6-9 or something like that. The school he attended made the assumption that his name was the same as the husband of his mother--and that is what they initially put on their school records (certainly not an official record of anything). Barack Obama always had that name, his last name was never Soetoro, because he was never adopted by his step father.  Barack Obama returned to the United States and chose to live with his grandparents in Hawaii rather than return to Indonesia with his mother.  The rest is history.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-24_17:59:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "f84bdc820c6096f7195b2a77ddda4e04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "4 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 12729647, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "11922810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I would like to thank Mr. Obamabich (yes, even his name is a typo) for a most entertaining evening.  I leave the rest of the intelligentsia on this page to continue toying with Mr. OB.  At the fast rate of his ALL CAPS RANTS, I figure his head will explode from overuse of his tiny, tiny, tiny brain.<br><br>Adios, ya'll.  <br><br>(Mr. OB, \"Adios\" is Spanish, not Arabic.  Just thought you should know.  Nighty nite.)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-06-29_23:20:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "f5fea4c54a3171e5b862c5c053dcfc68", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 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}, "12646396": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Stanley Ann Dunham-Obama did fly to Kenya but was not allowed in 1961 to  board the propjob out of there due to the late stage of her pregnancy.  Hence baby Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya. If he has nothing to hide why is he hiding it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-14_15:07:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "RedGraham", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "4 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}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 1, "reply_position": false, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "23518340", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "34441", "hash": 4075865658508655306}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "pat_boone_joins_the_birthers", "paginate": true, "num_pages": 4, "num_posts": 50, "per_page": 50, "total_posts": 178, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 23518340, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": false, "forum_facebook_key": "", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": false, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = '21bc467119200cb06806902fa8e2f5b0';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/pat_boone_joins_the_birthers/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		return params;
	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	};

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

};
// Dsq.Utils

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	};

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/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">50</span> of <span id="dsq-total-posts">178</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/pat_boone_joins_the_birthers/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/pat_boone_joins_the_birthers/">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/pat_boone_joins_the_birthers/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:23518340" 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'				: 'pat_boone_joins_the_birthers',
			// 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/pat_boone_joins_the_birthers/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='	+ 'pat_boone_joins_the_birthers'
			+ '&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='	+ 'pat_boone_joins_the_birthers'
			+ '&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='		+ 'pat_boone_joins_the_birthers'
				+ '&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/23518340/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)) {
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Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
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	this.requestURL = function() {
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			return;
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			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
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};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
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Dsq.CNN = function() {
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	obj.authenticate = function() {
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if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
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					+ inner
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			return html;
		});
	})();
}









(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
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		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
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Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-13302750">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-13302750" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-13302750" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13302750">r22</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-13302750" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13302750" class="dsq-comment-message">Boone: "USJF theorizes she flew with him to Oahu and obtained some kind of “record of birth” as if he’d been born there."<br><br>And I \'theorize\' that Boone has in his old age, confuses pure speculation with fact.  Furthermore I \'theorize\' that having a limited sense of discrimination in processing information, accords a more elevated status upon the "USJF" than is justified.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-13272896">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-13272896" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-13272896" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13272896">Big Dave</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-13272896" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13272896" class="dsq-comment-message">This should be simple to sort out.<br><br>Did Ann Durham have a U.S. Passport at that time?<br>Was she granted a Visa to travel to Kenya before the birth?<br>Are there any records of her returning to the USA during that year?<br><br>Another little item the Birthers choose to ignore is the Hawaiian policy against giving out birth certificates to foreign born babies, and the fact that Baby Barack was born in the Hawiian hospital according to the BC on file.  You would have to be kinda stoopid to believe that the hospital would be in on the scam, or that the Durhams would go to that much trouble to ensure the baby could be eligible to be US president someday.  A special kind of stoopid.  But, that\'s our Pat Boone the Baffoon.  I remember that 30 years ago that idiot claimed that he still spanked his 20 year old daughter Debbie- and would continue to do so until she married and the ass whipping rights were transferred to her husband.  You can\'t fix stoopid.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-13180939">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-13180939" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-13180939" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13180939">Florida Christian</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-13180939" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13180939" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey you dumb libs.<br><br>Pat Boone went on a journey to the Center of Earth and fought dinosaurs and everything so I would think he knows a thing or two about Obamas birth!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-13091259">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-13091259" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-13091259" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13091259">theyworkforus</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-13091259" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13091259" class="dsq-comment-message">The truth will come out. His tracks have been covered but there is someone out there that will come out to uncover this massive take over of the United States of America. Too many seeking the truth and he will be exposed soon. The take over will soon be the big take out.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12878218">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12878218" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12878218" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12878218">Caridad</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12878218" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12878218" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, since their favorite kooky presidential candidate-in-waiting, Sarah Palin, reportedly flew a several leg flight to return to Alaska after going into labor, I guess this crazy suggestion seems reasonable to them.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12729647">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12729647" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12729647" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12729647">RedGraham</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12729647" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12729647" class="dsq-comment-message">The ONLY evidence Obama has is a computer image of a Hawaiian COLB. His father was a Kenyan-Brit & his underage mother did not meet the US residency requirement at that time. Where is the Birth Certificate? College applications & records? and How do you explain a passport to Pakistan in 1981? He was a citizen of Indonesia adopted by an Indonesian and his name was Barry Soetoro. He never changed his name back to Obama. I will give this mission up when they pry my cold dead fingers from the keyboard. The man is an imposter.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-13293908">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-13293908" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-13293908" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13293908">Beca</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-13293908" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13293908" class="dsq-comment-message">All your fantasies have already been debunked.  His father was Kenyan on a studen visa in Hawaii. He met Stanley Ann Dunham in college, she was 18 y/o when they wed, in Hawaii. His mother, a U.S. born citizen did not have to meet "U.S. residency requirements" for anything, she was a U.S. citizen!   President Obama was born in Hawaii when his mother was 19 y/o. His mother NEVER traveled to Kenya, either before or after President Obama\'s birth.  When President Obama\'s father ( Barack Obama Sr.) decided he wanted to marry Stanely Ann Dunham, his family in Kenya were totally opposed to it, and told him that if he married her that he should never return to them. So it would make no sense for Ann Dunham to have gone to Kenya when she was pregnant anyway.  They all remained in Hawaii until President Obama\'s father graduated from the Univesity, he (the father) received a full scholarship to attend Harvard Graduate School, and left Ann Dunham with baby Barack Obama in Hawaii with her parents. His father never returned to Hawaii until years later for a short visit.  When Barack Obama was 4 years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya after graduating from Harvard graduate School. Obama Sr. then pursued his doctorate degree somewhere else (I can\'t recall where).  After their divorce, Ann Dunham met another university student, fell in love and married him.  Her second husband never adopted Barack Obama. Barack Obama went to live with his mother and her new husband in Indonesia for a few years--between the ages of 6-9 or something like that. The school he attended made the assumption that his name was the same as the husband of his mother--and that is what they initially put on their school records (certainly not an official record of anything). Barack Obama always had that name, his last name was never Soetoro, because he was never adopted by his step father.  Barack Obama returned to the United States and chose to live with his grandparents in Hawaii rather than return to Indonesia with his mother.  The rest is history.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12646396">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12646396" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12646396" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12646396">RedGraham</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12646396" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12646396" class="dsq-comment-message">Stanley Ann Dunham-Obama did fly to Kenya but was not allowed in 1961 to  board the propjob out of there due to the late stage of her pregnancy.  Hence baby Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya. If he has nothing to hide why is he hiding it?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-13294080">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-13294080" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-13294080" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13294080">Beca</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-13294080" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13294080" class="dsq-comment-message">YOU ARE LYING! THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO RECORD OF HER EVER LEAVING THE COUNTRY UNTIL YEARS LATER WHEN SHE MARRIED HER SECOND HUSBAND AND MOVED TO INDONESIA, AND BARACK OBAMA HAD LONG BEEN BORN IN HAWAII.<br>President Obama\'s father\'s family in Kenya was very opposed to the marriage of Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham, and as such made much ado that if he chose to disobey them and marry her anyway that he (Obama Sr. ) would be disowned from the family and not allowed back. Why then would a pregnant Stanley Ann Dunham travel to Kenya where she was not wanted? Because SHE DID NOT! She never went to Kenya, ever.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12822554">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12822554" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12822554" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12822554">cjk002</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12822554" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12822554" class="dsq-comment-message">Proof?<br><br><br>I din\'t think so.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12693669">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12693669" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12693669" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12693669">smrstrauss</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12693669" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12693669" class="dsq-comment-message">Re: "Stanley Ann Dunham-Obama did fly to Kenya but was not allowed in 1961 to board the propjob out of there due to the late stage of her pregnancy. Hence baby Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya. If he has nothing to hide why is he hiding it?"<br><br>There is no evidence that Stanley ever flew to Kenya. It is all made up. So is the part about her not being allowed on the plane back to Hawaii. (There were, by the way, no direct flights from Kenya to Hawaii in those days.) All made up.<br><br>If Obama had been born in Kenya there would have to be documents showing that he was born in Kenya. Among them would be US government documents that could not be sealed by Kenya. And, those government documents would be in the files of the US State Department, which was under the control of the Republicans until the election and for three months after it.<br><br>I am referring to visa files or records of a change to a Stanley\'s US passport in Kenya. If Obama had been born in Kenya, and he was born in Hawaii of course, but IF he were born in Kenya, there would be no way that he could get into the USA without some kind of travel document. He would either have to receive a new British passport and get a US visa on it, or he would have to be entered on his mother\'s US passport while she was in Kenya (if she was in Kenya, and she wasn\'t). Either of those situations would require documents and records, which would still exist and could not be sealed. They would be in the files of the US State Department, and if they existed would have been found by now. <br><br>Then there is the remarkable assumption that a woman who had gone to Kenya and given birth would keep it secret all her life. Why should she? Most people who do anything unusual, and going to Kenya and giving birth would be, would tell people about it. But no, there are no reports from friends saying that she did.<br><br>Then there is the remarkable assumption that somehow Stanley was able to come back from Ken ya (if she ever went there) with an infant and somehow create documents that show that he was born in Hawaii. Why would she do it? How could she do it? <br><br>Why aren\'t there any photos of her in Kenya, if she went to Kenya? Why aren\'t there any photos of Obama with his grandparents, if he was born in Kenya? <br><br>If the files in Kenya are "sealed", why is it that WND is the only source that claims that there are files in Kenya that are sealed? <br><br>So, there is no proof that Obama was born in Kenya and a lot of circumstantial evidence making it highly unlikely (such as the fact that his mother would have had to get a Yellow Fever shot to travel to Africa, and that is very bad during pregnancy). On the other side of the coin, we have a legal government document from Hawaii listing his place of birth as Honolulu, and we have the two officials who looked into the file and said that there was an original birth certificate in the file, and we have the PR spokeswoman from that department who calls the Chicago Tribune and says that the fact that there is an original birth certificate in the file means that Obama was born in Hawaii (because foreign birth certificates could not be entered into the file at the time). <a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/11/obama_hawaaianborn_citizen_for.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog...</a><br>Does this mean Obama was born in Hawaii?<br><br>"Yes," said Hawaii Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo, in both email and telephone interviews with the Tribune. "That\'s what Dr. Fukino is saying."</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-12453995">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12453995" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12453995" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12453995">smrstrauss</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12453995" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12453995" class="dsq-comment-message">Re: "The Senate said, that Natural born citizen, for becomming President, requires TWO US citizen parents, who are only US citizens and no dual citizenships allowed to count in order for a baby born in the US to be elligible for president."<br><br>Baloney. The Senate did not do anything like that. It passed a special resolution for McCain, a friend, that said that for McCain, and McCain alone, the situation was that he had two US parents and was born on a US base and hence was eligible. This does not mean that everyone has to have two US parents to be eligible. It does not mean that everyone has to be born on a US base to be eligible. It just means (and it does not even have the force of law, which requires two houses of Congress and signature of the President), that the Senate considered that McCain was just as eligible as Obama, and Obama voted for it.<br><br>The original definition of "Natural Born" means born in the country. The term was used in the Colonies before the revolution. Anyone born in a colony was considered a "Natural Born Subject." When the Constutition was written, they used the new term Citizen for the old term Subject. But the definition of Natural Born was the same.<br><br>If there had been any change in the meaning from simply "born in the country," the writers of the constitution would certainly have told us. <br>And that is why such prominent conservative Senators who are also lawyers as Orren Hatch and Lindsay Graham say that a Natural Born Citizen is simply one who was born in the USA:<br><br>Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said:<br><br>“Every child born in the United States is a natural-born United States citizen except for the children of diplomats.” (December 11, 2008 letter to constituent)<br><br>Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT), said:<br><br>“What is a natural born citizen? Clearly, someone born within the United States or one of its territories is a natural born citizen.” (Senate Judiciary Committee hearing hearing on OCTOBER 5, 2004)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13294299">Beca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13294299" class="dsq-comment-message">A "Natural Born Citizen" is someone born on U.S. Soil. It has absolutely nothing to do with the nationality or citizenship of the parents.  <br>A refuge seeking asylum in this country could have a Natural born U.S. citizen if her child is born on U.S. soil.  That does not change the citizenship of the mother.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13300407">smrstrauss</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13300407" class="dsq-comment-message">In a message dated 7/24/2009 6:12:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  <br> writes:<br><br>A refuge  seeking asylum in this country could have a Natural born U.S. <br>citizen if her  child is born on U.S. soil.  That does not change the <br>citizenship of the  mother.  <br><br><br>Yes. What counts is where the child is born, not the citizenship of either  <br>parent.<br> <br>And that is why such prominent conservative Senators who are also lawyers  <br>as Orren Hatch and Lindsay Graham say that a Natural Born Citizen is simply <br>one  who was born in the USA:<br> <br>Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said:<br> <br>“Every child born in the United States is a natural-born United States  <br>citizen except for the children of diplomats.” (December 11, 2008 letter to  <br>constituent)<br> <br>Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT), said:<br> <br>“What is a natural born citizen? Clearly, someone born within the United  <br>States or one of its territories is a natural born citizen.” (Senate <br>Judiciary  Committee hearing hearing on OCTOBER 5, 2004)<br> <br>  And:<br> <br>Gov. Bobby Jindal, who delivered the Republican response to Obama’s speech, <br> said: “Regardless of party, all Americans are moved by the President’s <br>personal  story - the son of an American mother and a Kenyan father, who grew <br>up to become  leader of the free world.”<br> <br>Jindal, of course, would be even less of a citizen under Vattel’s concept  <br>because neither of his parents were citizens at the time of his birth. His  <br>mother was about three months pregnant when they came to the USA.<br><br><br><br>**************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy <br>steps! <br>(<a href="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377105x1201454426/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=115&bcd" rel="nofollow">http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377...</a><br>=JulystepsfooterNO115)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12448187">smrstrauss</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12448187" class="dsq-comment-message">Re: a very pregnant 18-year-old woman taking a transatlantic flight makes perfect sense to Boone et al."<br><br>It would have been far more  than transatlantic. It would have been from Hawaii to Kenya, and there were no direct flights. So it would have had to be via Tokyo or via New York. Along the lines of: Hawaii, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, New Deli, Teheran, Cairo, and finally Nairobi Kenya (and  the same to return, of course). Someone has worked out that at best, with all connecting flights working perfectly, it would have taken at least 24 hours, and in those days planes were poorly pressurized, AND you had to get a Yellow Fever shot to visit Africa, which is bad during pregnancy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12362926">RedGraham</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12362926" class="dsq-comment-message">Mama may have given up her citizenship when she married a Kenyan-Brit. She was underage and did not meet the residency requirement under Hawaiian-law at that time. The father\'s citizenship would have allowed for dual-citizenship at best. How about Obama show everybody his original longform Birth Certificate, college applications where he might have applied as a foreigner, his passport records to Pakistan, his official name-change back to Obama from Barry Soetoro which was his legal name when a citizen of Indonesia(the MOST Moslem country in the world) and why doesn\'t Michelle accompany him to countries under shariah-law? Because Obama is viewed by those countries as a Moslem and his wife would have to wear a burkha.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13294726">Beca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13294726" class="dsq-comment-message">YOU ARE WRONG!  STANELY ANN DUNHAM WAS A U.S. BORN CITIZEN, SHE DID NOT HAVE TO "MEET" ANY RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT UNDER YOUR MADE UP HAWAIIAN LAW.  She married Obama senior when she was 18 y/o, and had President Obama when she was 19 y/o. That is NOT UNDERAGE.  There was no treaty with Kenya for "dual citizenship". In order for a child to have "dual citizenship" the parents or parent has to be a citizen of a country where the U.S. has a treaty where "dual citizenship" is granted.  Kenya was not and still is not one of those countries.  <br>By the way, idiot, having dual citizenship does not dilue ones citizenship of where one was born!  It only means that that child is a citizen of both countries, until the legal age of 18, at which time, and if they don\'t chose, they become sole citizens of the country where they are residing at the time. BARACK OBAMA WAS NEVER BARRY SOETORO! The school he attended in Indonesia made the assumption that his last name was that of the husband of his mother, that does not mean that his name was ever officially changed or that Mr. Soetoro ever adopted him. Barack Obama WAS NEVER A CITIZEN OF INDONESIA, he was a always a U.S. citizen and while in Indonesia (4 years) he was temporary legal resident--and still a U.S. Citizen.  <br>You know Red, you are a bigger imbecile than I first thought! You are really stupid!  if you did some real factchecking you would find that all the balloney you are spewing is all LIES AND LIES. You should be ashamed of yourself. I bet you are not even a U.S. citizen yourself, you can\'t be, no true U.S. citizen would be so evil and deceitful about their own President. No, I concluded that you are an illegal alien and when I fingure out where you are hiding out, I am senging INS after you!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12157324">Name</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12157324" class="dsq-comment-message">If you are born to an American citizen, then you can be president. Get over it conspiracy nuts, because it doesn\'t matter if he was born in outer space, mama was American! Maybe the nuts won\'t be satisfied until they see his mom\'s birth certificate also! well, you can\'t convince people who are wrong in the head anyway.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12157012">mistercrispy</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12157012" class="dsq-comment-message">You people don\'t even realize that your obsessive need to see Barack Obama\'s birth certificate reveals you to be a bigot. No, not because he\'s black, but because he\'s black AND you\'ve never insisted on any white presidential candidate to do the same. If these buffoons were as obsessed during the election to get McCain\'s birth certificate as they are about Obama, then they\'d have a point. After all, McCain was born IN PANAMA. Less than this, though reveals BIGOTRY. Obama is a proud American, just like you, not matter if you have less melanin in your skin. Dopes.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13091479">theyworkforus</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13091479" class="dsq-comment-message">During the time the appointing committee in the senate was looking up McCain\'s edgeability, it was discovered Obama wasn\'t edgeable at all. They overlooked this and its been a cover up ever since.They are just as guilty as the constitutional lawyer who knew he was not edgeable.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-15072897">heretoolong</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-15072897" class="dsq-comment-message">What is "edgeable"? Able to have edges?<br>Learn to write!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13294890">Beca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13294890" class="dsq-comment-message">Right, you want us to believe that the all White Senate committee would hammer at McCain\'s elegeability (for what to be U.S. Senator? why all of a sudden, he has been a Senator for years), and "discover" that Obama was not elegible (for what you don\'t specify), but decided to overlook it?  Makes no sense, if anythying it would be the reverse, they would overlook McCain\'s elegiblity issue and hammer at Black Barack Obama.  Don\'t try this crap!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12090674">Chris</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12090674" class="dsq-comment-message">CVB - <br><br>Hey, idiot.  Did you even click the link which takes you TO the birth cert before spouting off your innane, moronic, traitorous ramblings?<br><br>DIAF.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12057437">CVB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12057437" class="dsq-comment-message">Where\'s the true BC? i do not need Pat Boone (a great man) to point this out, that the document should have been showed a long time ago. Obama should leave the WH and go directly to jail for defrauding people if he was born in Kenya which it seems otherwise he would have shown it</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-12053286">Doc3</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12053286" class="dsq-comment-message">Alftird posting here is a paid blogger on Obama\'s payroll. Google his name and birth certificate. He has been blogging on this 24/7 since last year.<br><br>The facts are simple. Producing a photograph of a certification of live birth to a website does not rise to vetting of a candidate. <br><br>We all know that the State of Hawaii is holding the original vault birth certificate, that despite Altird\'s assertions, is readily available should Obama sign a release and pay $10.00. <br><br>The vault or original birth certificate is the only document that will list the hospital where Obama claims to have been born, the doctors and any witnesses. The question is why Obama has refused to produce it. People and Obama need to be judged by their actions. Obama\'s actions speak to someone that is trying to hide something. Whether it is something embarrassing or if it would show Obama is ineligible for the office will only be know once that document is produced. It is only a matter of time until it is produced.<br><br>Go ahead Altird jump in here and say how the vault birth certificate can never be produced, it is against Hawaii law, or that the other political party is responsible for vetting candidates or the other nonsense you post.<br><br>Obama is a one term president over this issue. If all Obama can produce is the photo of a certification of live birth it will not get him on the primary ballot in 2012.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-13295111">Beca</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-13295111" class="dsq-comment-message">Who the hell appointed you the official "vetters" of only Barack Obama?  I didn\'t hear anybody here demanding to see the birth certificate of GW Bush?  why not? Because he is white?  Thought so!<br>You imbeciles believe that President Obama would have been granted the highest level of national security clearance in the country by just presenting his smile? You think that the national security officials (who at the time were under Bush) wouls have just bypassed all the required documentation requirements, authentication, etc. because they thought President-elect Obama was just so charming?  He was vetted by the appropriate authorities, and he was more vetted than any past President, believe me!  <br>You people are full of crap and those of you who do happen to be U.S. citizens should get your citizenship revoked for doing what you are doing.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11948068">chubasco</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11948068" class="dsq-comment-message">Fuck Pat Boone!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11945106">oldgadawg</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11945106" class="dsq-comment-message">Where Is The Birth Certificate?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11949245">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11949245" class="dsq-comment-message">right here.<br><br><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/06/13/bobirthcertificate.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shared/image.h...</a><br><br>That is a legal document issued by the State of Hawaii.<br><br>It states quite clearly that he was born in Honolulu.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-11932230" href="http://divineafflatus.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">mark</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11932230" class="dsq-comment-message">Pat Boone had a scene in one of his movies where he was buck naked, grasping a sheep and pulling it toward him, in the presence of several nuns. His column in the WingNut Daily often provides laughs for his whacky thoughts.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11931701">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11931701" class="dsq-comment-message">Obamabitch once posted the following on another forum:<br><br>---<br><br>"I AM NOT HUNG UP ON THE FACT THAT OBAMAS MOTHER WAS A WHITE SLUT. I AM JUST CURIOUS WHY IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FIRST "BLACK" PRESIDENT OF THE US. AND HE ISN\'T EVEN BLACK."<br><br>----<br><br>What a maroon</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11928548">Name</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11928548" class="dsq-comment-message">Yah. He looks like the love child of Opie and alfalfa. lol</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11928411" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama has a sister named Maya.<br>Maya was born in Jakarta Indonesia and has the very same COLB Obama has.<br><br>This law makes it possible.<br><br>Hawaiian state law allows children born outside Hawaii get valid Hawaiian birth certificates (S. 338-17.8)<br><br>[§338-17.8] Certificates for children born out of State. (a) Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health shall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that proof has been submitted to the director of health that the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child.<br><br>(b) Proof of legal residency shall be submitted to the director of health in any manner that the director shall deem appropriate. The director of health may also adopt any rules pursuant to chapter 91 that he or she may deem necessary or proper to prevent fraudulent applications for birth certificates and to require any further information or proof of events necessary for completion of a birth certificate.<br><br>(c) The fee for each application for registration shall be established by rule adopted pursuant to chapter 91. [L 1982, c 182, §1]</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11949499">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11949499" class="dsq-comment-message">---Maya was born in Jakarta Indonesia and has the very same COLB Obama has.----<br><br>prove it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11934087">AD</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11934087" class="dsq-comment-message">State law here is irrelavant. \'Out of State\' implicitly assumes another state within the US. if your interpreation of the law were correct, which it is not, grown children of illegal aliens could haul to hawaii, establish addresses for a year, and become citizens. The end.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11949539">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11949539" class="dsq-comment-message">Actually if the children of illegal aliens were born in the U.S., then they are automatically natural born citizens.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11931540">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11931540" class="dsq-comment-message">Do you see that part of the statute that you copied that says: "[L 1982, c 182, §1]?"<br><br>That means that that particular statute was enacted in 1982.  <br><br>Obama was born in 1961.<br><br>You lose, sucker.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11929448" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11929448" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11929448">lava lee pyre</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11929448" class="dsq-comment-message">From <a href="http://www.ocweekly.com/2009-06-18/news/orly-taitz/4" rel="nofollow">here</a>:<br><br> the Pakistan “travel ban” is a complete fabrication based on zero evidence and completely contradicted by State Department records and a 1981 New York Times article. The full transcript from Obama’s grandmother shows that she never said he was born in Kenya—in fact, she repeatedly said he was born in Hawaii. <b>The law allowing foreign-born children to obtain Hawaiian COLBs didn’t exist until 20 years after Obama was born, while Obama’s published COLB says his birth information was recorded four days after his birth in 1961.</b><br><br>Moron.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11928397" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11928397">Name</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11928397" class="dsq-comment-message">OBAMA IS JUST SO DAMN UGLY. LECK!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11928188" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11928188">Name</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11928188" class="dsq-comment-message">The really strange part to this story<br>Is the extent Obama has gone to to keep from showing his long form birth certificate.<br><br>Comparison to a real one and the COLB placed on the internet.<br><br><a href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101483" rel="nofollow">http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=10...</a><br><br>All of us can see what a real one looks like in the above link.<br>The one on the internet is a joke.<br><br>Then the utterly incredible fact that McCains birth place came up and reported on and defined by an open debate in Congress, yet not done with Obama, who has more problems than McCain had.<br>(who also showed his long form)<br><br>McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28mccain.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/2...</a><br><br>* Nightly News with Brian Williams<br><br>McCain\'s citizenship called into question<br><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23415028" rel="nofollow">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23415028</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11931599" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11931599">alferd</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11931599" class="dsq-comment-message">I can cut and paste also<br><br>-------<br><br>Question: What is the state\'s policy for issuing a "Certification of Live Birth" versus a "Certificate of Live Birth"? My first, second and fourth children received certificates, but my third and fifth children received certifications. Why the difference? The certificate contains more information, such as the name of hospital, certifier\'s name and title; attendant\'s name and title, etc. The certification has only the child\'s name, date and time of birth, sex, city/island/county of birth, mother\'s maiden name, mother\'s race, father\'s name and father\'s race. Why doesn\'t the state just issue certificates? When did it stop issuing certificates? Is it possible to obtain certificates for my third and fifth children?<br><br>Answer: No, you can\'t obtain a "certificate of live birth" anymore.<br><br>The state Department of Health no longer issues copies of paper birth certificates as was done in the past, said spokeswoman Janice Okubo.<br><br>The department only issues "certifications" of live births, and that is the "official birth certificate" issued by the state of Hawaii, she said.<br><br>And, it\'s only available in electronic form.<br><br>Okubo explained that the Health Department went paperless in 2001.<br><br>"At that time, all information for births from 1908 (on) was put into electronic files for consistent reporting," she said.<br><br>Information about births is transferred electronically from hospitals to the department.<br><br>"The electronic record of the birth is what (the Health Department) now keeps on file in order to provide same-day certified copies at our help window for most requests," Okubo said.<br><br>Asked for more information about the short-form versus long-form birth documents, Okubo said the Health Department "does not have a short-form or long-form certificate."<br><br>"The birth certificate form has been modified over the years and decades to conform to national standards and models," she said.<br><br>Okubo also emphasized the certification form "contains all the information needed by all federal government agencies for transactions requiring a birth certificate."<br><br>She added that the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the state\'s current certification of live birth "as an official birth certificate meeting all federal and other requirements."<br><br>-------<br><br><a href="http://www.starbulletin.com/columnists/kokualine/20090606_kokua_line.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.starbulletin.com/columnists/kokualin...</a><br><br>You lose again, sucker</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11928168">Name</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11928168" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama has a sister named Maya.<br>Maya was born in Jakarta Indonesia and has the very same COLB Obama has.<br><br>This law makes it possible.<br><br>Hawaiian state law allows children born outside Hawaii get valid Hawaiian birth certificates (S. 338-17.8)<br><br>[§338-17.8] Certificates for children born out of State. (a) Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health shall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that proof has been submitted to the director of health that the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child.<br><br>(b) Proof of legal residency shall be submitted to the director of health in any manner that the director shall deem appropriate. The director of health may also adopt any rules pursuant to chapter 91 that he or she may deem necessary or proper to prevent fraudulent applications for birth certificates and to require any further information or proof of events necessary for completion of a birth certificate.<br><br>(c) The fee for each application for registration shall be established by rule adopted pursuant to chapter 91. [L 1982, c 182, §1]</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11923893" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11923893">24wienersaheaddotcom</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11923893" class="dsq-comment-message">Previous President takes nation to war.<br><br>Not the same as blinking or laughing, I agree.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11923876" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11923876">The_Faster_Gun</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11923876" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow,<br>Look at all the blind obongo-nots on here- see ya later libtards.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11923739">igormarxomarxovich</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11923739" class="dsq-comment-message">How you tell when politician lie?<br><br>Comrade Pelosi blink<br><br>Slick Willy rub nose<br><br>Dumb Donkey Gibbs laugh...Hehaw..he..haw..he..haw!<br><br>I Igor produce Barrack Milhaus Hussein Obama Birth Certificate at <a href="http://www.igormarxo.org/" rel="nofollow">www.igormaro.org</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11923033">krisi</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11923033" class="dsq-comment-message">A friend of mine\'s aunt knows the doctor who delivered Sarah Palin. She says Sarah Palin\'s parents are card carrying Communists and groomed her to be president from the Republican Party, because Republicans are so easy to fool with the God-military-family-values-free-enterprise stuff.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11953370">ilsnowbird</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11953370" class="dsq-comment-message">So, because, you have a friend ,and he has an anubt, who knows the doctor who delivered Sarah palin, and because your aunt "says," that the senior Palins are card carrying communists, well now we sure have positive proof don\'t we. Sure is a lot of heresay in here. One can get lost going on this wild goosechase. try this on for size. The US Senate in 2008, examind, sen. McCain to check out his elligibility to run for President, since he was born in the US Panama Canal Zone . The Senate said, that Natural born citizen, for becomming President, requires TWO US citizen parents, who are only US citizens and no dual citizenships allowed to count in order for a baby born in the US to be elligible for president. barak Obama sr. was a dual citizen with UK and US citizenship, thus his son is NOT a natural born citizen, and is NOT elligible to be president. .</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-11958533" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11958533">krisi</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-11958533" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11958533" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh good lord. I made it all up to make a point. The birthers are big on m aking stuff up, too.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-11922949" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11922949">24wienersaheaddotcom</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11922949" class="dsq-comment-message">What was that fake press guy who was in the white house press pool during the last administraion...the one that was actually paid by Republican organizations...oh yeah, he was a Homer Sexual.<br><br>Dude if you think that no gay people arrived in the White House before 2009, you got some \'splainin\' to do to Mr Cheney\'s daughter.<br><br>Ahem</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-11922810">trgmom</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-11922810" class="dsq-comment-message">I would like to thank Mr. Obamabich (yes, even his name is a typo) for a most entertaining evening.  I leave the rest of the intelligentsia on this page to continue toying with Mr. OB.  At the fast rate of his ALL CAPS RANTS, I figure his head will explode from overuse of his tiny, tiny, tiny brain.<br><br>Adios, ya\'ll.  <br><br>(Mr. OB, "Adios" is Spanish, not Arabic.  Just thought you should know.  Nighty nite.)</div>\
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