Sarah Palin: A brilliant move by John McCain?

Governor Sarah Palin would not have been my first choice: only because I never heard of her before now. But that doesn't make her a bad choice at all.

In fact, if McCain wins, it will go down in history as one of the shrewdest and brilliant political plays of all time.

And if the mainstream media can be used as a barometer, she was a great choice.

Almost everything printed or broadcast from the mainstream media goes out of it's way to paint anything and everything about her in a negative light. If she ran in front of a car to push a child to safety and the car hit her, the headline would be "Palin Damages Car".

With Joe Biden, on the other hand, the press seems to be suffering from a collective memory loss spanning his entire political career. Biden has made so many politic gaffs, had so many errors in judgement, that it would take a week to Google them all.
But the press only has nice things to say; or those with any shred of ethics left simply don't mention him much.

So McCain's choice of the Governor of Alaska may be sheer genius. Say what you will about McCain, you Obama and left wingers, but he's politically savvy. He didn't throw a dart blindly at a map: he knows her lack of elected experience is going to dampen that line of attack on Obama. Other than his flip-flopping and "it depends how you define 'is'" statements of late, lack of experience was and is one of Obama's weak points. I know that, you know that, and you can bet John McCain sure does.

Yet he gives up valuable ammunition and chooses Sarah Palin as a running mate. There's a real good reason. Pieces of it are out there, but McCain deliberately chose her for a reason.

I'm actually starting to get interested in this election again....and maybe that was McCain's whole point: to wake up the voters already bored by this seemingly never-ending campaign. I don't know....not yet. But Marc Chamot, one of my favorite commentators, thinks he does.

Marc explains we he opts for "Brilliant" in his article. Click "read more" ..

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LinkedIn.com Swedish Snus Enthusiast Group Announcement

I'm posting this because LinkedIn.com has been invaluable to me professionally.

As to the Swedish Snus Enthusiast Group, they give me the opportunity to introduce Henry Waxman's recent Bill H.R. 1108.

It was overwhelming supported by both parties in the House but the fall break stopped it from making it the Senate. The bill will put tobacco under FDA control among other things.The Bill will be reintroduced next year, pass both houses of Congress, and either McCain or Obama will sign it.

It has huge ramifications not only for the 46 million American cigarette smokers, but for users of "reduced-harm-tobacco" products like Swedish or Swedish-Style snus, and other forms of tobacco.

This will be a very large issue and point of contention during 2009 and I'm just laying the groundwork. Remember you heard it here first!

For those of you unaware, LinkedIn.com is the ultimate and largest networking site for professionals in practically every field. Membership is tiered, but starting with FREE. LinkedIn is not for everyone: it's a business networking site.

It's invaluable to anyone in any industry wanting to increase their business network, reconnect with old colleagues or classmates, post jobs, find employment and/or contacts at a particular company or organization, ask questions of industry experts....plus a lot more.

The Swedish Snus Enthusiast Group on LinkedIn is a member-created group open to all LinkedIn members, not just those in the tobacco industry. It too is Free to join.

The article linked to this explains LinkedIn.com and the Swedish Snus Enthusiasts Group in more detail. You can also visit www.LinkedIn.com to look around or join.As I said, it's no MySpace...it's for business and professional networking. So it may not be for you. But if you are an appropriate candidate to join, I can say from personal experience that is the a phenomenal and incredibly useful networking site to be a member of.

Click read more below for the complete article.

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FINALLY: A Reason to Vote for President in November!

McCain or Obama: two second rate want-to-be's for President whose biggest challenge will be giving the American public a reason to get out of bed and go vote in November.....until now.

I will be voting for John McCain for President, regardless of whatever stupid things he says or does between now and the election for one reason and one reason only: The Supreme Court.

It is likely at least one Supreme Court Justice will be stepping down during the next administration. As the 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court on the challenge to Washington DC's anti-Second Amendment laws shows, the Court is fairly balanced with a slight lean to the right.

Since the Justices most likely to resign are liberal, a President Obama would nominate liberals to replace them so at worst case, we maintain the status quo....unless he nominates HILLARY!! But even if he did, I'm not so sure she would be confirmed. Still, not worth the risk.

If McCain is elected, it's a whole different ballgame.

While I doubt a President McCain would actually stand up, nominate, and fight for hard-right conservatives, he certainly would nominate conservatives of some ilk. And that will be very significant going forward.

Perhaps we can get everything the incredibly liberal 5th Circuit overturns reinstated. Maybe we could get the 1977 Supreme Court Decision rendering unconstitutional a (in this case) Texas law that illegal alien children would not be educated at public expense overturned!

That would certainly go a long way in lowering Texans ridiculously high school taxes. Dare I hope for more? That Oklahoma and others laws highly penalizing employers for hiring illegal aliens will be swiftly heard and upheld?

Or, I'm almost afraid to put this in writing, but could a law be passed banning "birthright" citizenship and upheld by the Court? No more border babies. A child born in the United States would be a citizen of the country that both their parents are; not automatic US citizens as is the case today.

FINALLY, I have a reason to support one of the candidates! John McCain for President! John McCain for President!

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