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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