By defending the "birther" movement's right to ask about the legitimacy of President Obama's citizenship, Sarah Palin this week has inadvertently invited media scrutiny of her own brief stint in Hawaii, where she attended college for one semester before returning home. Although Palin says in her new book "Going Rogue" that she left because the incessant sunshine was a hindrance to serious studying, her own father, Chuck Heath, was quoted in a newly released Palin biography saying she left because the minorities made her uncomfortable, the Daily Beast points out. "They were a minority type thing and it wasn't glamorous, so she came home," he told Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, authors of "Sarah From Alaska," which was released last month. On Thursday, Palin told conservative radio host Rusty Humphries that the "birther" movement had a right to question whether President Obama, a Hawaii native, was born in the United States. "I think the public rightly is still making it an issue. I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue because I think there are enough members of the electorate that still want answers."
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Sarah Palin's Father: 'Minority Types' Led Her to Quit Hawaii College (Video)
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JRC903
12/7/2009 10:58:58 AM PST
I doubt if the possibility now exists that this women is anything, except a bigot. The Paliniites have found their center. Obstinately religious--- (just like the radical Muslims) but in fact, true believers of only one thing-- ------HATRED toward anything that does not look and sound like them..
unalaska
12/4/2009 12:43:39 PM PST
Won't Sarah Palin ever give up on the question about where Obama was born? She continues to try stirring up this question, even though Hawaii has his birth records, birth certificate and newspaper announcements showing that he was born there. She is really a dimwit when it comes to analyzing facts! If she continues to push the issue, it would make just as much sense to determine what her father meant when he said that she left college in Hawaii after one semester because of the problems she had living with the minorities. All her loyal fans refuse to listen to all the comments that people who have worked with her in Alaska say about her being racist!
