Todd Palin - A feminist icon?

Rachel,

I applaud your blog comments and your perspective. I work very hard to provide for my family, and want my wife to feel empowered to pursue whatever she desires.. If I have to wake up at 2 AM to feed our 1 year old, so be it. I enjoy being a parent and that's what being a parent means. Who is going to stand around your casket when you're blue and stiff? Your co-workers? Your "rave buddies" I feel for the single parents out there, but I do not believe this is the way God intended us to live. If people treated making their relationships work as seriously as they treated their pursuit of material success, the world would be a much better place.. Good job..

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Everyone has an opnion, and you do not have to agree with it. However, it is completely uneccessary for someone to attack Rachel personally. If you do not like what she is writing in her blogs then don't read it. If you disagree and want to express your view that is great, but you can do it intelligently and not attack her by calling her names. This is a forum for people to share their thoughts, and have an open dialogue. We are supposed to be adults and some of the posts have been cruel and have nothing to do with the topic that she is even writing about. If you want to have a debate about politics then debate the issues.

Rachel keep blogging and ignore the disrespectful comments. I enjoy reading your posts and I may not agree with Mccain/Palin becoming the next President/Vice President but I appreciate that you are sharing your views. Also your videos are great, and I look forward to seeing more of them. Keep writing!

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A "feminist Icon"? I am embarrassed and saddened for women who subscribe to identifying a husband who participates in his marriage and family as something abnormal. A feminist Icon? How about that is what you should expect for yourself in a partner? If that's not the kind of partner you have then you need couple's therapy and not Sara Palin to save you....

Is the generation that embraced Boy George and Madonna in the 80's and opened up about the realities of our experiences and views with Oprah's ground breaking honesty really ready to go back in time to a time where homosexuality and unwanted pregnancies were something to hide and be ashamed of?

Sara Palin is NOT a feminist nor is her husband an Icon....those that paved the way for her to have this platform ARE. Is their really an independant thinking non judging woman out there ready to bash Gloria Steinam?

Time to brush up on your history lessons so the error's of the past are not repeated.....

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Good job Rachel. It's nice to have someone with a level head writing a blog. I'm so tired of hearing all the liberal crap from other writers. The Palins are an excellent example of a real family devoted in a partnership. Not perfect, but real. Thanks for your blogs -- the only ones worth reading!!

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Sept. 16, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- Not long after Sarah Palin was sworn in as Alaska's governor in December 2006, her husband, Todd, started showing up in the state capitol in Juneau. He'd hang around her office, or he'd sit in on meetings with Cabinet officials or legislators. He'd leave for a few weeks to go work his $100,000-a-year oil job on the North Slope, then come back to Juneau (or Anchorage, depending on where Palin was spending her time). At some point, the "First Dude" became enough of a fixture in the statehouse that people just sort of figured he belonged there.

Soon, Todd Palin was getting copied on e-mails dealing with official state business. He had already helped write the state budget, gotten involved in personnel matters and called up lawmakers when he -- or Sarah Palin -- had a bone to pick with them. Apparently Palin's inner circle figured they better include him on messages about pending legislation or ongoing controversies, too. The First Dude's involvement in Palin's efforts to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the state police force have now earned him a subpoena from the Legislature, and he also allegedly intervened to have John Bitney (a former friend) fired from the state payroll for having an affair with the ex-wife of one of Todd Palin's buddies. The Washington Post reported last week that the Palins billed the state $1,371 for Todd's airfare to Washington, when he joined Sarah Palin at a National Governors Association conference, and for the whole family to fly around Alaska watching him compete in the Iron Dog snowmobile race.

In the Palin administration, Todd appears to have had an unusually strong role, the extent of which remains unclear. He is not on the state payroll and was never elected -- but the First Dude has crossed over from the standard-issue supportive political spouse to something far more influential, weighing in on policy and political matters in ways that few observers seem to understand. His apparent influence in his wife's administration -- some in Alaska have referred to him as the "shadow governor" -- has raised questions about whether a Sarah Palin vice-presidency would hand the same type of backstage power to Todd, and what that might mean in the running of the U.S. government.

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Kennyb said...

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight....

- If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
- If you grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.

- If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
- Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

- Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
- Attend 5 different colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

- If you spend 3 years as a successful community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
- If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, and 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

- If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
- If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

- If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
- If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

- If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
- If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DUI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

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Just had to bring in the Clintons, didn't you? What IS it with you right-wingers?

Want to talk about affairs? Let's talk about affairs. Read the National Enquirer lately? Notice the headlines while standing in line at the grocery store?

They are reporting that Sarah Palin HAD AN AFFAIR. They are reporting they have 3 sources and a signed affidavit.

Wait, what? You don't believe the National Enquirer?

Oh.

Do you know Jonah Goldberg, the conservative commentator? He had this to say about the National Enquirer after it broke the Edwards-affair story:

"Also, it's worth pointing out that while the Enquirer may or may not be scrupulous in its choice of stories — that's in the eye of the beholder — it is pretty scrupulous about its facts. They win lawsuits. They've broken a host of stories the MSM guys couldn't."

Goldberg wrote that on Thursday, July 24, 2008 for the The Corner. Look it up.

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Here is the full video of her speech to the AIG...
http://current.com/items/89388695/palin_supports_the_alaska_independence_group.htm

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well so fair hes made two false reports about mike wooten, between them the heath/palin family has filed 76 complaints with 14 percent
or 11 found to be true
do a search on who build the palins how and you will find out it seems to have been built at the same time in the same town by the same contractor that got the bid on the 12.5 million dollar sports complex in wasilla. so sarah left wasilla 12-14 million in debt when she termed out
not to mention the fact that todd called wasilla pd and told them he didnt want them to hire mike wooten and he didnt get the job. i guess this was so he could keep torturing hire via the state good ole boy network. i who elses spouse has there own phone in the confrerence room of the state headqurters in juneau .
he and sarah may be the reason that mccain was beat before the alaskan polls were closed 8 pm mst.
not only that but sarah and todd have given monegan and wooten
good evidence to sue the palins individualy as well as the state of alaska good thing shes writing a book with todays settlement amountys its no telling what its gonna cost them to get out this mess
so yes sir howdy there good people !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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