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A couple of things come to mind:
1) It's a pretty obvious play to attract disaffected Hilary Clinton supporters who want a woman and also an attempted to counterbalance Obama's ownership of the fresh voice and energy stuff.
2) It seems a tad contradictory to build an entire campaign based around questioning Obama's experience and building McCain as a steady pair of hands when Palin has been a governor for just two years. How are they going to say that it's a bad thing for Obama but a positive for her?
All in all, I admit to knowing nothing about her but my first instinct is that it seems a very reactionary choice. The motives make sense but it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
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True she has only been governor for two years, but she was a mayor for 6 years and city councilperson for four years before that. Plus she isn't running for President, but for Vice President, that is a big difference.
Darkfinn I wouldn't call a manager a head honcho for any company. Would you consider the manager at your McDonalds a head-honcho at McDonalds?
adn.com | politics : Todd Palin unique among nation's 5 first husbands
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Until recently, he earned hourly wages as a production operator in a BP-run facility that separates oil from gas and water. Palin was making between $100,000 and $120,000 a year before he went on leave in December to make more time for his family and avoid potential conflicts of interest. London-based BP is heavily involved in the gas pipeline negotiations with his wife's administration.
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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.
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Yep, sounds like he was a head honcho alright, and raking in the cash.
