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Todd Palin unique among nation's 5 first husbands
Anchorage Daily News ^ | May 27, 2007 | JEANNETTE J. LEE

Posted on 08/29/2008 2:01:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway

THE MAN: He's worked the oil patch, won the Iron Dog and takes care of the kids

That same week, his wife, Gov. Sarah Palin, was in Juneau requesting more money for the state budget and assuring legislators they'd soon see her plan for a natural gas pipeline that could one day be the most expensive construction project in North America. Then she flew to Fairbanks to wave her exhausted husband across the finish line.

It's not just his title as the state's reigning snowmobile co-champion that sets 42-year-old Todd Palin apart from the nation's other first spouses. And it's not that he's one of just five who are men.

White-collar jobs in law, education or health care are typical among the current crop of first spouses, but Palin spent nearly 20 years as a blue-collar employee in the oil fields of the North Slope. And every summer he heads west to his birthplace in Dillingham to work the Bristol Bay commercial salmon fishery from his property on the Nushagak River.

A lifetime of manual labor in the state's two largest and most physically demanding industries is helping Palin carve out his role as Alaska's first spouse, or "first dude," a nickname he has in common with the Kansas governor's husband, Gary Sebelius.

Like other first spouses around the country, Palin has been asked to champion an array of causes or institutions since his wife took office in December.

His favorite is steering young Alaskans toward stable jobs in the oil and gas industry. It's a singular choice among his counterparts, whose pet issues include schools, public health, domestic violence, poverty or the arts.

(Excerpt) Read more at dwb.adn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: firstdude; mccain; palin; palinfamily; toddpalin
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To: griswold3

41 posted on 08/29/2008 2:21:36 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief
"I'd hit it"..

:)

sw

42 posted on 08/29/2008 2:22:48 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (Is He the one?)
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To: maggief

ROFL


43 posted on 08/29/2008 2:24:12 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("John McCain has a birthday but he gives US the present.")
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To: NonValueAdded

“This just keeps getting better and better.”

Solid, conservative people running our country. What a refreshing thought..


44 posted on 08/29/2008 2:24:45 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: maggief

LOL! I guess the gals get their “not guilty” moments.


45 posted on 08/29/2008 2:25:29 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Marysecretary

He’s cute! : )


46 posted on 08/29/2008 2:26:45 PM PDT by TAdams8591 (Proud Catholic supporter of Governor Mitt Romney for VP and future President of the United States!)
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To: newfreep

Yes, after all our FR sisters have had to put up with on thread after thread, it’s an absolute hoot to see them serve up some payback. You go, girls!


47 posted on 08/29/2008 2:27:44 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("John McCain has a birthday but he gives US the present.")
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To: ryan71

it’s spelled SARAH, like in the BIBLE!


48 posted on 08/29/2008 2:28:00 PM PDT by JFC
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To: nickcarraway

IOW, he’s not a Breck Girl girlie man.


49 posted on 08/29/2008 2:30:38 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: griswold3

YES!! I love the story of the two of them ‘eloping’ too. The were responsible enough to know they didn’t have the money for a huge fancy wedding, etc. and so just went to the court house. The guy got his training and knowledge...not by demanding the government pay for his college education...but by working for it and learning by doing!

Meanwhile, the Obamatrons have visions of Obama and the Democrats paying their credit card bills and sending them to Harvard! (eye roll)

The contrasts could not be more different between Republican (individualism/self reliance) and Democrat (government dependency and irresponsibility) in this election.

Now, Mr. and Mrs. Palin(thanks to John McCain) have put ‘individualism and self reliance’ back on the table of ‘ideas’ with the living example of their success....and there is no way for Obama/Pelosi to argue against that ‘idea’ without looking like the elitists that they are!!

I’m lovin it!!


50 posted on 08/29/2008 2:31:34 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: mkjessup

Yup!


51 posted on 08/29/2008 2:31:40 PM PDT by shove_it (and have a nice day)
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To: Sacajaweau

Northern Lights. I want a radio station like that when I retire.


52 posted on 08/29/2008 2:33:17 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Pretending that the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in a suspension.)
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To: penelopesire

53 posted on 08/29/2008 2:33:24 PM PDT by RDTF (my worst nightmare is being on jury duty sequestered with 11 liberals)
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To: maggief

bad too!@!!!!


54 posted on 08/29/2008 2:34:04 PM PDT by mpackard (Proud mama of a Sailor.)
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To: nickcarraway

You gotta love how liberals always bleat about the equally-supportive husband and father, but seldom actually come through on it. Here’s a guy who really does keep the household running—in an absolutely masculine way. Yahoo!


55 posted on 08/29/2008 2:34:17 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: nickcarraway
What ?

No Nanny?

No $10,000 ballet lessons ?

No Housekeeper ?

You mean they do this all themselves, like MOST American families ?

56 posted on 08/29/2008 2:35:21 PM PDT by happygrl
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To: Marysecretary
Wikipedia says she's "Assemblies of God", as does the Dallas News. But I thought that I saw somewhere else that she was Catholic.

Also from Wikipedia:
Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats moose hamburger, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[19][84] Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana at a time when the state had legalized possession of small amounts (though possession was still illegal under federal law). She says that she did not like it.[16] In December 2007, Palin posed for a photo spread in the fashion magazine Vogue.[85]

57 posted on 08/29/2008 2:35:48 PM PDT by Sopater (The Left taketh, and the Left giveth away...)
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To: RDTF

Dang! He is one HANDSOME man! Not a bit of metrosexual in him!


58 posted on 08/29/2008 2:35:59 PM PDT by proudofthesouth (Homosexuality IS a choice! There isn't any biological reason for it. They CHOOSE to be that way!)
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To: nickcarraway

Hey, I bet he uses Lava Soap, too !


59 posted on 08/29/2008 2:36:09 PM PDT by happygrl
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To: TAdams8591

Oh, yes...


60 posted on 08/29/2008 2:36:47 PM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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