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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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1 posted on 08/29/2008 2:01:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

He’s a regular guy. The Libs will hate him.

He sounds like a Freeper to me.


2 posted on 08/29/2008 2:03:56 PM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Mainstream Media, the Left is Nothing.)
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To: nickcarraway

This just keeps getting better and better.


3 posted on 08/29/2008 2:04:26 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("John McCain has a birthday but he gives US the present.")
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To: nickcarraway

“First Dude”. Awesome!


4 posted on 08/29/2008 2:05:42 PM PDT by agere_contra ("We are all Georgians" - John McCain)
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To: maggief; retrokitten

Ping! I think you'll like this story.
5 posted on 08/29/2008 2:05:57 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("John McCain has a birthday but he gives US the present.")
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To: nickcarraway
Very cool story!

Thanks for posting it

6 posted on 08/29/2008 2:06:48 PM PDT by voteNRA
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To: nickcarraway

Isn’t there a rule that you gotta post pictures when the name ‘Palin’ comes up?


7 posted on 08/29/2008 2:07:37 PM PDT by griswold3 (Al qaeda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: agere_contra

TODD PALIN FOR FIRST DUDE!!!


8 posted on 08/29/2008 2:08:12 PM PDT by dandelion
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To: nickcarraway

Alaska is the last frontier and these people are the pioneers.

It doesn’t get any better.


9 posted on 08/29/2008 2:08:15 PM PDT by Argus (Obama: All turban and no goats.)
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To: nickcarraway
Her husband is a blue collar worker. Working class men will identify with him.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

10 posted on 08/29/2008 2:08:17 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: nickcarraway

Pictures...oh, sorry. Wrong Palin. Well what the heck, bring on the pictures anyway.


11 posted on 08/29/2008 2:08:18 PM PDT by saint
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To: NonValueAdded

He looks like he might kick someone’s ass.

Dhims don’t like manly men.


12 posted on 08/29/2008 2:08:20 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (At least Palin is not Romney or Huckabee.)
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To: nickcarraway

A real man.

Unlike the Michigan Gov’s hubby who was recently caught with a hooker.


13 posted on 08/29/2008 2:09:37 PM PDT by tips up
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To: MeanWestTexan

He is a man among a bunch of girly-men.


14 posted on 08/29/2008 2:09:39 PM PDT by oldfart (The most dangerous man is the one who has nothing left to lose.)
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To: NonValueAdded

WOW! They make a very handsome couple.


15 posted on 08/29/2008 2:09:50 PM PDT by Islander7 ("Common sense and common decency are uncommon virtues among America's left.")
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To: rightinthemiddle
"By any standard, Governor Palin is less prepared as commander in chief than Obama." Posted by: Michael Medved at 9:35 AM http://townhall.com/blog/g/3af59ab0-58ab-48b1-a9ce-d4076a55fb7e

Medved, you sir are a sexist pig!


16 posted on 08/29/2008 2:10:10 PM PDT by A. Morgan (VOTE FOR A LIBERAL N' WE'LL BE UP TO OUR NECKS IN ILLEGALS and OUTA' GAS!)
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To: MeanWestTexan

He reminds me a lot in both look and interests of former Broncos and current Falcons kicker Jason Elam, who also lives in Alaska, flies, is an outdoorsman, and is a Christian. Jason also wrote a book, Monday Night Jihad.


17 posted on 08/29/2008 2:10:36 PM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: griswold3

“Isn’t there a rule that you gotta post pictures when the name ‘Palin’ comes up?”

Well then, we have to post pictures of both! :)

AS Paris would say: ‘He’s Hot’.....LOL


18 posted on 08/29/2008 2:10:54 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: rightinthemiddle
"By any standard, Governor Palin is less prepared as commander in chief than Obama."

Posted by: Michael Medved at 9:35 AM

http://townhall.com/blog/g/3af59ab0-58ab-48b1-a9ce-d4076a55fb7e

Medved, you sir are a sexist pig!


19 posted on 08/29/2008 2:11:17 PM PDT by A. Morgan (VOTE FOR A LIBERAL N' WE'LL BE UP TO OUR NECKS IN ILLEGALS and OUTA' GAS!)
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To: nickcarraway
Todd Palin unique among nation's 5 first husbands

Because he's a man.
Or better said "a mensch".

And not a lap-dog accessory for some femi-nazi luminary.
20 posted on 08/29/2008 2:12:06 PM PDT by VOA
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