Todd Palin runs the show. Sarah is just the 'Obedient Wife.'

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Palin e-mail reveals a powerful ‘first dude’ AKA 'Mr. Mephistopheles'

Source: MSNBC

By Bill Dedman
Investigative reporter
msnbc.com

Officially he was the first gentleman of Alaska. More people called him the "first dude." But newly released e-mails show that Todd Palin was busy doing more than snow machine driving and salmon fishing during Sarah Palin's two and a half years as governor and vice presidential candidate.

Nearly 3,000 pages of e-mails that Todd Palin exchanged with state officials, which were released to msnbc.com and NBC News by the state of Alaska under its public records law, draw a picture of a Palin administration where the governor's husband got involved in a judicial appointment, monitored contract negotiations with public employee unions, received background checks on a corporate CEO, added his approval or disapproval to state board appointments and passed financial information marked "confidential" from his oil company employer to a state attorney.

While 1,200 separate e-mails were released this week, 243 others were withheld by the state under a claim that executive privilege extends to Todd Palin as an unpaid adviser to the government. Still, just the subject lines of those e-mails provide a glimpse of the ways the Palins divvied up their responsibilities when she became governor in December 2006, less than two years before Republican Sen. John McCain pulled her onto the national political stage by nominating her as his vice presidential candidate.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35238034/ns/politics /

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1. Oh that evil liberal media

telling the truth about public officials. Ole sarah will change all that once she and the kukluxklan win the next presidential election.

[davepc]

2. Republicans will bray that this is no different then the role Hillary served to Bill.

[Orsino]

3. So doesn't he become governor when his wife quits? n/t

[Blue Owl]

4. How tawdry

n/t

[Cleita]

5. Somehow Sarah doesn't strike me as an obedient to any one except maybe Gawd.

I think the truth is that Sarah is basically lazy and delegates her responsibilities to those around her mainly her children and husband. Levi Johnston has already said that her children are raising each other in his Vanity Fair interview. I wouldn't doubt that others picked up her Governor duties including Todd because she only did what was interesting to her, talking on the media and killing things or letting them be killed while she did a photo op like the turkey snuff video.

[Andy823]

7. I agree.

There is no way in hell Sarah is an "obedient" wife! Todd may have done the work, but it was Sarah and her need for power that ran things. He did the work while she took the credit, and old McCain put her front an center on the public stage and now the whole country has to put up with her! It think this pretty much proves she isn't able to do anything on her own, and why she makes so many mistakes, and says so many stupid things when she tries to do it all on her own!

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Will we find out who was servicing him while Momma was out losing with Gramps?