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Mr. Lowry,Seems that Pawlenty, Romney, and Jindal have all had their trial balloon in the past few weeks. According to this morning’s “McCain likely to let Obama choose VP first” article on politico.com, Frederick Smith and Joe Lieberman are the transformational options if McCain decides to go that route instead of making a more conventional pick. Bill Kristol’s NYT op-ed also mentions Frederick Smith along with eleven other names. So Mr. Smith appears to be on the short-list, and yet he has not received much attention from the press or the blogosphere. A Google News search of Mr. Smith yields a mere six articles. Mr. Smith has a most impressive resume on economics and foreign policy: Fed Ex founder and CEO, Marine Captain and decorated war hero, contender for Secretary of Defense in 2000. Although he is 64 years old, which might be a slight minus, he appears to be incredibly well-qualified on the economy, even more so than Mitt Romney, and has the foreign policy credentials to boot.Is there anything in this guy’s background that might be causing McCain and co. some concern? …

ME: I don’t know a lot about him, so just throw it out there for other people who might want to e-mail.