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Its time the people take back their country and oust all republicans. They are nothing but a bunch of old corrupt idiots. What does this say for Palin exploiting her children like this. That baby should be home resting no on the campaign trail. I am so disgusted with this all scenario. This is not what America is about.
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Alaska's 'First Dude'
Keeps Things Low-Key
By JIM CARLTON Wall Street Journal
September 3, 2008; Page A5
WASILLA, Alaska -- With all the controversies swirling around the meteoric rise of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, there has been one constant by her side: her unassuming husband.
As Gov. Palin told the world when Arizona Sen. John McCain introduced her as his running mate Friday, she and her husband were celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary that day. "I had promised Todd a little surprise for the anniversary present, and hopefully he knows that I did deliver," the beaming governor said as her husband stood by smiling.
In Alaska, Gov. Palin, 44 years old, jokingly refers to the 43-year-old Mr. Palin as the "first dude." But his role is anything but frivolous. Around the Statehouse in Juneau, some critics dub him the "shadow governor." He is copied on some of Gov. Palin's official correspondence, and allegedly was involved in an effort to get a state trooper fired after the trooper reportedly threatened Gov. Palin's family.
That episode, involving Gov. Palin's former brother-in-law, is now the subject of an ethics investigation into the governor and her husband by the state legislature. The investigation is scheduled to be completed before the election.
"One question keeps surfacing over and over again; Why does the governor's husband, Todd Palin, appear to hold so much power?" Andrew Halcro, an Anchorage rental-car executive who ran for governor against Mrs. Palin in the 2006 Republican primary, recently wrote in a blog he uses to criticize the Republican governor.
Neither the governor nor her husband could be reached to comment. Sharon Leighow, the governor's deputy press secretary, said Mr. Palin does pass along to his wife or her staffers some of the correspondence with which he is "inundated," but that he doesn't attend meetings or play executive roles.
An oil-field production operator on Alaska's North Slope, Mr. Palin has taken months off work to help manage a household of five children. The disclosure by Mr. Palin and his wife Monday that their 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant out of wedlock put the family in the spotlight again. Mr. Palin also has traveled around the state to promote vocational education, which as part Yupik Eskimo he considers a way to help Alaska's native villages.
When a Wall Street Journal reporter spent two days following Gov. Palin in June, Mr. Palin kept a low profile, mostly tending to his youngest son, Trig, as the governor attended events in the Anchorage area. Often, female bystanders asked him to pose for photos.
The only time he became animated was over the topic of Alaska's giant North Slope oil fields, where he has worked for nearly 20 years. In particular, he marveled at how much natural gas has to be pumped back into the ground or "flared" off because there isn't yet a pipeline to take it to markets in the lower 48 states. "You can see the flares for miles," Mr. Palin said at the time.
Alaska's first gentleman has emerged as a key player in the "Troopergate" scandal. An investigator for the legislature is looking into whether Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan lost his job in July after being pressured by Gov. Palin, her husband and her staff to fire Mike Wooten, a state trooper with whom the Palins had feuded during a messy divorce from the governor's sister. Gov. Palin says there was no pressure and that Mr. Monegan's removal was unrelated to her personal affairs.
According to a complaint that Mrs. Palin filed against Mr. Wooten in 2005, the trooper threatened to "bring Sarah Palin down" after Mr. Palin advised him to "act civily [sic] and with maturity" during the divorce. Later that year, Mr. Palin also gave a statement to troopers investigating the charges of misconduct that his wife leveled against Mr. Wooten and also warned the public-safety commissioner about Mr. Wooten after Gov. Palin's election victory.
Mr. Palin has told Alaska reporters he did so to alert Mr. Monegan of an alleged death threat against his family by the trooper. Ms. Leighow of the governor's office said Mr. Palin went to the commissioner at the request of Gov. Palin's security detail.
Yesterday, new documents filed by Gov. Palin allege Mr. Wooten continued to harass her and her family as recently as this summer.
The Palins married after meeting in the same Wasilla High School class, where both starred in basketball. Born to a fishing family in remote Dillingham, Alaska, Mr. Palin had moved to Wasilla in his senior year and quickly hit it off with the future governor.
As Mr. Palin has celebrated his wife's political victories, she has returned the favor by cheering on her husband in his chief hobby: snow-machine racing. He is a four-time winner of the Tesoro Iron Dog, a grueling, 2,000-mile race over ice and snow.
Mr. Palin also takes fishing seriously. He once left his wife onshore to tend to some fingers she broke on the boat so he could get right back out, according to the 2008 book.
Frequently, Mr. Palin appears at public events with his wife. On June 18, the couple drove from Wasilla to Kenai, about 200 miles away, so the governor could sign a tourism bill. After a brief ceremony in a converted fish cannery, Ms. Palin met with a local resident, Taryn Armstrong, who told her about the problem of contractors having to import labor from the lower 48 states. The governor pointed toward her husband, who was holding Trig, and said, "Talk to Todd about that," a nod to his interest in getting more native Alaskans trained for that work.
Write to Jim Carlton at jim.carlton@wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122040040143693...
At this point we should be questioning Harry Reid and Pelosi about the damage. One item I read is that Reid is "disappointed". Disappointed??? Why not outraged? Fred Thompson slammed Obama and THE CONGRESS, Lieberman professed he is a Democrat and ALL Harry Reid can say is he was disappointed.
No wonder the approval of Congress is so low.
Barack Obama will appear on Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor" Thursday night, a Democratic source tells Politico.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Dep...
Remember that McCain and Palin themselves broke the news about Bristol's pregnancy - not Obama, not the Dems, not the blogs, certainly not old media.
That should not impact the Palin's objectivity and that should certainly play well with the electing public, as they know all too well how effective and popular oil men in the White House can be
That's a false frame.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13102...
Lieberman, like many republicans drive their self worth from inflicting harm upon others for a profit.