Opinion: Sarah Palin’s steamy passage about husband Todd, plus surprisingly kind words about Hillary Clinton
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It’s not the typical kind of passage for a political memoir. But hey, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Pallin isn’t the typical kind of politician.
Amid rumors that Palin and her husband Todd, known as Alaska’s ‘First Dude,’ were getting a divorce, the governor recounts this moment in her odyssey. If it reads like a Harlequin novel, viewer discretion advised.
“That day in sunny Texas when the divorce rumors were rampant in the tabloids, I watched Todd, tanned and shirtless, take the baby from my arms and walk him back to the ranch house so Trig could nap while I made calls,” she writes in ‘Going Rogue,’ the much-publicized memoir out Tuesday. ‘Seeing Todd’s blue eyes smiling, I chuckled. ‘Dang,’ I thought. ‘Divorce Todd? Have you seen Todd?’”
Palin’s book, ‘Going Rogue,’ is being released Tuesday with a huge publicity drum roll -- beginning with today’s interview with Oprah Winfrey -- and considerable speculation about whether the publicity will help Palin resurrect her political career.
In the meantime, various quotations are leaking out. One of the most intriguing is the Republican vice presidential candidate’s view of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then battling Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.
From the book: ‘Should Secretary Clinton and I ever sit down over a cup of coffee, I know that we will fundamentally disagree on many issues, but my hat is off to her hard work on the 2008 campaign trail. …[A] lot of her supporters think she proved what Margaret Thatcher proclaimed: ‘If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.’ ‘
Here’s Clinton’s response.
-- Johanna Neuman
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