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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

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To: RDTF
Nice couple. I wonder if she wears those glasses for gravitas? Maybe she would look to good without them in our sick twisted society. If you're a woman and look to good, you must be a ditz.
81 posted on 08/29/2008 3:00:24 PM PDT by webrover
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To: nickcarraway; All
This nitwit Brit says he's an Inuit.

Any basis for this?

He (and his children) sure look caucasian.

82 posted on 08/29/2008 3:04:16 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: aculeus

He’s at least part Inuit, that’s right.


83 posted on 08/29/2008 3:06:26 PM PDT by agere_contra ("We are all Georgians" - John McCain)
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To: Marysecretary

Hi Mary, here’s an exerpt from the web:

Palin’s parents say they are not political and don’t know how she decided to turn her ambition and work ethic toward politics. Her Christian faith, they say, came from her mother, who took her children to area Bible churches as they were growing up (Sarah is the third of four siblings). They say her faith has been steady since high school, when she led the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and grew stronger as she sought out believers in her college years.

Palin doesn’t brandish her religion on the campaign trail, but that doesn’t prevent others from doing so. After she was first elected mayor, her predecessor, John Stein, objected that a Valley cable TV program had hailed her as Wasilla’s first “Christian mayor.” In a column for the local newspaper, he named eight previous mayors and added that he, too, was a Christian, despite a name that led some voters to suspect “I must be a non-Christian, have non-Christian blood or at least have sympathized with a non-Christian sometime in my career.”

http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/story/8334949p-8231037c.html


84 posted on 08/29/2008 3:07:19 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (The FReeper Foxhole. America's history, America's soul.)
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This nitwit Brit says he's an Inuit.

More precisely, ... her husband is Yup-ik Eskimo

85 posted on 08/29/2008 3:07:45 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: Cyber Liberty; Sacajaweau

Close Cyber, but it was Northern Exposure.


86 posted on 08/29/2008 3:10:06 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, Call 'em what you will, they ALL have Fairies livin' in their Trees.)
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To: rightinthemiddle
He’s a regular guy.

Sorry, but Iron Dog Racer's are hardly regular guys.

http://www.irondog.org

87 posted on 08/29/2008 3:12:24 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: NonValueAdded

I know, a REAL man married to a REAL woman who support each other and their family, works for me.


88 posted on 08/29/2008 3:14:20 PM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: agere_contra; aculeus

Another article on FR says he is 1/4 Yup’ik.

Another article, link at post 84 on this thread says:

“His Yup’ik grandmother, Helena Andree, grew up in a traditional Native household in Bristol Bay and now lives in Homer.”


89 posted on 08/29/2008 3:16:36 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (The FReeper Foxhole. America's history, America's soul.)
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To: rockinqsranch

Yes, thanks. I still want the radio station....


90 posted on 08/29/2008 3:17:12 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Pretending that the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in a suspension.)
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To: nickcarraway

Hot, hot, hot.


91 posted on 08/29/2008 3:17:47 PM PDT by valkyrieanne
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To: NonValueAdded

Guy looks fit and a suit hangs well on him .


92 posted on 08/29/2008 3:19:27 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: nickcarraway

Governor’s husband proves to be one tough dude
http://www.adn.com/sports/snowmachining/irondog/2008/story/317669.html

CRASH: Broken arm, kaput sled don’t stop him from crossing the finish line.

Not only is he the “First Dude,” but Todd Palin is one tough dude.

The husband of Gov. Sarah Palin, or “First Dude” as Alaskans have come to call him, survived a high-speed crash on Friday in which he broke his arm and had to be towed across the Chena River finish line in Fairbanks on Saturday after his snowmachine died. But he still finished the world’s longest, toughest snowmachine race in fourth place.

Not bad considering that the day before he was lying in the snow, curled up in the fetal position after crashing into a barrel that was hidden in the snow outside of Galena.

Of course, the governor would expect nothing less.

“The last thing he ever wants to do is scratch,” said Gov. Palin as she awaited her husband’s arrival in the subzero cold on the Chena River at Pike’s Landing Saturday. “If there’s any way he can finish the race, he’s going to finish it.”

Just like last year, Gov. Palin was there to wave the checkered finish flag for her husband when his partner, Scott Davis, towed him across the finish line. But unlike last year, Palin and Davis weren’t first.

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The 43-year-old Palin, a four-time Iron Dog champ, said it was his worst crash in 15 years on the Iron Dog trail. He estimates he was going 50 mph when he hit the metal drum near the end of a runway on the outskirts of town.

“Usually if you see something and you know you’re going to hit something you can brace for it,” he said. “I didn’t see this.”

Not until after the race, when Palin got his arm checked out at Fairbanks Urgent Care, did doctors detect a fracture and put a cast on his arm.


93 posted on 08/29/2008 3:19:35 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Cyber Liberty

ROFL


94 posted on 08/29/2008 3:21:55 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, Call 'em what you will, they ALL have Fairies livin' in their Trees.)
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To: All

Iron Dog Racers are a tough breed.

http://www.adn.com/irondog/


95 posted on 08/29/2008 3:23:02 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: penelopesire

Sure does put conservative values front and center.

Obamer is an elitist to the core. The only dirt he ever got under his nails was from scratching Ayers backside.


96 posted on 08/29/2008 3:23:28 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: agere_contra
I am sure Sarah will prove to have a flaw somewhere...

The only thing I can see is that it takes away the argument that Obama is lightly experienced, but by picking Biden, Obama took away the "judgment" issue, at least if you measure judgment by "didn't vote for the Iraq War" argument.

I like this, an older person and a younger person on each ticket, a white guy and a politically underrepresented minority on each ticket. Now, the race can be about ideology, and not purely about identity politics.

97 posted on 08/29/2008 3:28:39 PM PDT by hunter112 (John McCain might just have made a decision that has earned him my vote with Sarah Palin.)
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To: nickcarraway

He’s hot.


98 posted on 08/29/2008 3:30:14 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: webrover; Marysecretary
"Nah. They're freakin’ devil worshipers. What do you think a decent all American family is"?

That was rude, idiotic and uncalled for newbie.

Grow up, get some manners or get lost

In your defense, Marysecretary

99 posted on 08/29/2008 3:41:35 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Election '08, the year McCain defined the word "dilemma")
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To: webrover

To be technical, Obama was elected to the US Senate on January 7, 2005.

He only logged in 143 days in the Senate while it was in session.


100 posted on 08/29/2008 3:51:02 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 ("An American Carol", due October 3rd in theaters!)
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