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Why don’t you challenge her to a debate to elevate your own candidate’s national profile? Since that battle with Crowley was entirely about local and US policy, it’s no surprise she needs to play catch-up on these topics. And the bar is pretty low with Trump’s own lack of foreign affairs expertise painfully obvious...that’s the risk of choosing someone with no or little political experience. Having had the opportunity to travel abroad (see Kennedy’s) due to inherited wealth also isn’t her particular advantage.

Well, considering the shadow government is actually Trump/Russia...we’ve already seen it. The only question is how long Trump’s base remains loyal before they begin to start putting country over ideology. Congress is finally starting to turn on him.

You’ve really gone off the deep end twisting yourself into a pretzel to defend the indefensible...sigh.

13 homers in 65ish games is asking a lot...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/henry-wallace-americas-forgotten-visionary-politician_b_8569658.html Interesting to speculate what would have happened had Henry Wallace (FDR's first VP) become president instead... 1948 presidential election Wallace left his editorship position in 1948 to make an unsuccessful run as the Progressive Party's presidential candidate in the 1948 presidential election. With Idaho Democratic Senator Glen H. Taylor as his vice presidential running mate, his platform advocated universal government health insurance, an end to the nascent Cold War, full voting rights for black Americans, and an end to segregation. His campaign included African American candidates campaigning alongside white candidates in the segregated South and he also refused to appear before segregated audiences or to eat or stay in segregated establishments. Time magazine, which opposed the Wallace candidacy, described Wallace as "ostentatiously" riding through the towns and cities of the segregated South "with his Negro secretary beside him".[44] A barrage of eggs and tomatoes were hurled at Wallace and struck him and his campaign members during the tour. Wallace's opponent President Truman, condemned such mob violence as "highly un-American business which violated the American concept of fair play." State authorities in Virginia sidestepped enforcing their own segregation laws by declaring Wallace's campaign gatherings as private parties.[45] The "Guru letters" reappeared and were published, seriously damaging his campaign.[23] More damage was done to Wallace's campaign when journalists H.L. Mencken and Dorothy Thompson, both longtime and vocal New Deal opponents,[46] charged that Wallace and the Progressives were under the covert control of Communists. Wallace's refusal to disavow publicly his endorsement by the Communist Party cost him the backing of many anti-Communist liberals and of independent socialist Norman Thomas. Wallace suffered a decisive defeat in the election to the Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman. He finished in fourth place with 2.4% of the popular vote. Some historians now believe his candidacy was a blessing in disguise for Truman, as Wallace's frequent criticisms of Truman's foreign policy, combined with his overt acceptance of Communist support, served as a refutation of the Republicans' claim that Truman was "soft on communism". Dixiecrat presidential candidate Strom Thurmond finished ahead of Wallace in the popular vote. Thurmond managed to carry four states in the Deep South (all in which he was designated as the "Democratic" nominee), gaining 39 electoral votes to Wallace's electoral total of zero.

Putin couldn’t have been behind this most recent nerve agent attack because The Donald and Theresa May warned him...and he is so much more fearful of Trump than Obama or HRC. Honestly, at this point, we might as well install the Kushners as King and Queen and Donald Jr., as the Court Jester/Gaston from Beauty and the Beast comedic foil. Things could hardly be more embarrassing.

And for the 90-95% of Tepublicans who are too afraid to? Just punt?

The amazing thing is that the generic Congressional preference has only swung about 2% in favor of the Dems (8% total) over the last month...both sides are pretty firmly entrenched by now.

I’m pretty sure Greg’s Kansas (or Westboro Baptist) is not quite ready for Davids quite yet...that type of campaign works better with suburban soccer moms in Johnson County than outlying/rural areas. Sylvia Williams from Leawood is the seventh Democrat and second woman in the race. Like the other six candidates, Williams has never held public office. A recently retired banker who grew up in southeast Kansas, Williams says Congress needs people with financial experience but focused on the middle class. “They don’t care about the stock market," she says. “We need to get some policies passed that help small businesses. We need to get policies passed that help kids in college have better accessibility to financing for their college loans.” Williams says she does not want to arm teachers and she would support an assault weapons ban. She also says she supports women’s issues and embraces diversity. Also in the race is Sharice Davids, an economic development consultant, Tom Niermann, a teacher, Chris Haulmark, an IT executive, Brent Welder, a labor lawyer, Jay Sidie a businessman who ran against Yoder in 2016 and Mike McCamon who also has a technology background. kcur.com

What does 2019-2020 FA Class look like for top outfielders?

Trump’s political genius is this... https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/07/15/fareed-zakaria-gps-republican-party-ideals-malleable-sot-vpx.cnn Sasse calls Putin a “murderer” ahead of meeting https://www.yahoo.com/gma/sen-ben-sasse-calls-putin-murderer-says-trump-065804378--abc-news-topstories.html

What other choice do they have? It’s up to individual candidates to create the enthusiasm, however. Fwiw, the heart of the Trump Revolution was SE Minnesota, NE Iowa, SW Wisconsin, W-NW Illinois. That’s also why Cheri Bustos gets brought up over and over again, for being able to successfully speak to those voters. On the GOP side, it’s Will Hurd holding down the biggest Congressional district in the country, a Texas district that’s majority Latino while he is biracial (half white, half African American.)

Read he was consistently at 97-98 that inning...let’s hope he can sustain better than Giolito.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-white-sox-futures-game-20180715-story.html article on Basabe and Cease starring in Futures Game

Winner: Immigration France’s unique beauty (in the World Cup) was its diversity – its distinct personalities and backgrounds, and the way they blended together. Les Bleus represented all of France – all cultures, all socio-economic classes. They were predominantly the sons and grandsons of immigrants, of Congolese and Haitian and Catalan and Martiniquais and Guinean and Nigerian and Italian and Cameroonian and Algerian and Mauritanian and Portuguese and Senegalese and Malian and Togolese and German and Angolan and Zairian and Moroccan and Filipino descent. A few were born abroad themselves. While some European nations that have historically maintained stricter immigration policies, and whose soccer federation have been plagued by explicit and implicit racism, failed to even qualify for the 2018 World Cup, France represented the powers of merit-based integration and inclusion. Immigration is not the reason France won the World Cup, per se, nor the reason Belgium and England made the semifinals with diverse squads. But merit-based integration and inclusion are reasons France has such an insanely talented pool of players to pick from. https://sports.yahoo.com/14-winners-14-losers-2018-world-cup-best-modern-era-200353611.html

https://news.gallup.com/poll/224864/football-americans-favorite-sport-watch.aspx https://finance.yahoo.com/news/handwritten-letter-tom-seaver-inside-business-baseball-nostalgia-143017186.html

Reminds me of the McAfee anti-virus guy or Papa John...everyone is melting down.

He never should have been called up by Boston, both his offensive and defensive struggles for a couple of weeks need to be taken with a grain of salt.

I guess Covey has as good an opportunity as anyone to make it out of the pen...you can list him and Fulmer as 1 and 1A from the “experienced youth” list. With Leury vs. Yolmer, it comes down to money and what Yolmer is potentially worth to another team (see Saladino playing a significant role in Mil). It always comes down to his not being quite enough of a slugger to hold down a corner, and his defense for whatever reason has regressed (might be the team-wide malaise.) With Avi and Jose, 12 teams out of the race already make it impossible to get a good/fair return this trade deadline. And Madrigal definitely ends up at 2B, pushing Moncada over to 3rd or the outfield.

Anderson Moncada Rodon Lopez Giolito (50/50) Maybe 5? Of the remaining players, you’re left with Narvaez, Palka/Davidson and Yolmer/Leury, probably at least 1-2 from that list...finally, Fry and Avi, I’d put the odds at roughly 10-15%.

Fake news!

Especially a Congressman with two decades of service, who hadn’t been challenged/primaried in 14 years and who had at least a 10-1 fundraising advantage.

Well, there are huge problems with IA Medicaid (surprise, surprise) but I’m not sure that’s a compelling argument for most independents...

Still think Cease has a chance to be the best of the bunch, at least while his elbow holds up. Maybe the new “market inefficiency” will be starters like Lester, Q and Hendricks (I realize he was just DLed) who rarely miss long periods of time due to injury...?

What minimum wage is she fighting for, since she has already rejected $15 as too high for Iowa...? As far as Blum goes, at least he does have some level of technology expertise (due to his internet ventures)...it’s the classic experienced (old/white) Tea Party businessman vs. inspirational (female) political ingenue. Iowans did give Obama a shot, but they also rejected HRC soundly and anyone under 30 running for statewide office isn’t going to have an easy time of it. It’s also not a race where you can easily make it all about getting out the women’s vote due to Roe v. Wade/Kavanaugh and Kim Reynolds both changing the landscape there. How much of Blum’s $15-20 million is he going to put into the race personally to attempt to retain his seat? OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The California Democratic Party snubbed U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Saturday by handing its official endorsement and a badly needed boost to state Sen. Kevin de Leon, her longshot Democratic challenger. In backing de Leon, a majority of the party's 360-member executive board ignored Feinstein's calls to stay neutral in the race. Her allies had warned an endorsement would create an intraparty squabble that could detract from important down-ballot races. De Leon has long been courting party activists and appealed to those seeking a fresh face and a more progressive senator to fight against President Donald Trump. "Today's vote is a clear-eyed rejection of politics as usual in Washington, D.C.," de Leon said in a statement after the vote. "We have presented Californians with the first real alternative to the worn-out Washington playbook in a quarter-century." A total of 217 delegates voted for de Leon, of Los Angeles, while 22 cast ballots for Feinstein and 94 voted for no endorsement.