Palin switched colleges 6 times in 6 years
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Federal privacy laws prohibit the schools from disclosing her grades, and none of the schools contacted by The Associated Press could say why she transferred. There was no indication any were contacted as part of the background investigation of Palin by presidential candidate John McCain's campaign.
"Our office was not contacted by anyone," said Tania Thompson, spokeswoman for the University of Idaho in Moscow.
Palin, the governor of Alaska, was born in Idaho. Her family moved when she was only a few months old to Alaska, where she was raised.
According to a biography — "Sarah" by Kaylene Johnson — Palin and three friends went to the University of Hawaii at Hilo after graduation from high school in Alaska in 1982. But they left after a few weeks because of the constant rain there, the book said.
The registrar at Hawaii-Hilo has no record that she ever enrolled, school officials said Thursday.
Palin, then known as Sarah Louise Heath, and a friend then traveled to Honolulu and enrolled at Hawaii Pacific University, a private, nonsectarian school. She attended only as a freshman during the fall of 1982, school spokeswoman Crystale Lopez said.
She was in the business administration program as a full-time student, Lopez said Thursday.
"We're trying to track down someone who knew her," Lopez added.
From Hawaii Pacific, Palin transferred to North Idaho College, a two-year school in Coeur d'Alene, about 30 miles east of Spokane. She attended the college as a general studies major for two semesters, in spring 1983 and fall 1983, spokeswoman Stacy Hudson said.
"We were not able to track down club affiliations or anything," Hudson said.
The school identified one of her professors but he did not remember her, Hudson said.
Prior to her selection by McCain, the North Idaho College Alumni Association notified Palin in June she would be the recipient of its 2008-2009 Distinguished Alumni of the Year Award.
From North Idaho College, Palin transferred 70 miles south to the University of Idaho, the state's flagship institution. She majored in journalism with an emphasis in broadcast news. She attended Idaho, whose mascot is the Vandals, from fall 1984 to spring 1985.
She then returned to Alaska to attend Matanuska-Susitna College in Palmer in fall 1985.
Then she returned to Idaho, for spring 1986, fall 1986 and spring 1987, when she graduated. Despite her journalism degree, she does not appear to have worked for the college newspaper or campus television station, school officials said. She worked briefly as a sportscaster for KTUU in Anchorage after she graduated college.
The McCain campaign did not have an immediate comment on Palin's higher education record.
Palin's biography on her Alaska governor's website indicates only that she graduated from Idaho in 1987.
A recent profile of her in the school's alumni magazine, before her selection to run on the GOP ticket, listed only Hawaii Pacific, North Idaho and Idaho as schools she attended. She also explained in the profile that her curiosity and love of writing made journalism a natural choice.
"I was always asking everyone the questions, and I still am today," Palin told the magazine.
The University of Idaho is taking advantage of Palin's nomination. A prominent photograph of her is featured on the school's Web site.
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What a sketchy past for an equally sketchy candidate.
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francamente me ne infischio
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wow thats a real important issue
more worthless issues that we can thank vier for... do you have a tinypic.url to further you cause?
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Its like one of those old government reports,
Today Ms. _____ went to the_____ to pick up_____.
I think you'll see more of her history lost in the coming weeks. -
So "Mr. Obamas impressive college education means nothing"- so says Palin and Mccain!
Mccain- 2nd to last in his college class.
Plain- needs many years to graduate in six different colleges for a communications degree no less!No wonder they play Obama down-
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Six years for a two year degree, huh, maybe shes a little slow.
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Karl Rove has a new muppet
As long as she can read a speech
Inspire anger and hate
And look good doing itShe's in
Just ignore Barrack Obama was the President of the Harvard Law review and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Oh yeah he taught Constitutional Law at University of Chicago.
Best of the best
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Why so many transfers???? Hummmm
A. she was a ho-bag and when her religo-freak friends found, out she had to split.
B. She was a spoiled beauty queen, ego-maniac that will never be satisfied anywhere, ever. (Who ditches HI because of rain?)
C. She was chasing the dragon......from school to school.
D. She just wasn't popular enough, so she left.
E. She's crazy.
F. She kept finding these brown-ish colored people at those colleges. One even touched her hand by accident once. eeeuwww.
G. She's another dumbass "Miss Somethingernuther", like the chick from SC. "And like, therefore, such as..." And she simply couldn't cut it. She flunked out.
ALL OF THE ABOVE
I want a heads-up DEBATE ASAP!
Bansheewail, over and out!!
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- bansheewail
- 3 months ago
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Oh come on now, who needs an education to be President or VP. anyway. 2nd. to last in his class. McCain is just smart enough for the religious right to manipulate him for their agenda.
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Obama is very smart.
McCain has only the remainder of a brain.
Palin's IQ can most likely be measured on a tire gage.
I want a smart leader, not a good public speaker or someone who cannot recall major events from last week.
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- Picasso9000
- 3 months ago
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who cares!
oh my god people, get over it. plenty of people transfer schools and some don't even have majors until their senior year...
get over it. shes a normal person! normal people don't usually know what they want to do. maybe she did'nt like to stay in one place. maybe she had crazy boyfriends or something...
i know super-seniors who are intelligent and not "sketchy"...
there is a trend of leaders not being the brightest in the box, have we forgotten?
nit-picking....
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- MissAmanda
- 3 months ago
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HOLD UP
ive been in college for 4 years now and i dont know a single senior that doesnt have a major, transfer or not, if youve been here this long with no major you get the boot
and if we cant "nit pick" the people who will LEAD this country then i dont know who we can nit pick??
it really tripps me out how willing people are to overlook the fact that this woman isnt qualified enough to do anything but be president of the PTA, because shes pretty. But if Obama would have switched 6 schools and one of his daughters were pregnant, we wouldnt even know who the hell he was let alone talk about the very real posibility of him becoming president....get real, por favor
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- Meaghan1126
- 3 months ago
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Point?
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- AswegoAsdego
- 3 months ago
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The question remains "Who is Sarah Palin"?
She looks at home with the male rednecks this picture is worth a thousand words. I wonder if the guy on the left borrowed SPs shiny helmet?
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- themanwithadog
- 3 months ago
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this is definitely better than them fancy schools that elitist Obama went to, but I would feel much better with a candidate that had just a high school diploma, or maybe a GED...
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- ArtisGilmoreHOF
- 3 months ago
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In a representative democracy the leaders education should match their constituents, which Bush clearly demonstrates.
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She doesn't seem too bright....
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retired_Navy,
Have you EVER been right or posted something that isn't bigoted or racist? I have now read over 20 of your posts and they all sound confrontational, bitter and racist.
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- Inofuilwell
- 2 months ago
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Dear Mr. Lack of Info...
it is not racist nor a bigoted quote to call it how it is...There is a clear line between your contempt for people of money and non-PC individuals! Life is not black and white buddy!
On a more non-ad hom. note, Palin doesn't need to explain her need to transfer, be it six or six million times...why do you think no one has addressed the issue on her campaign? DROP IT
Further more the only reason all the Dems out there have started talking so much trash is that a pretty young women with ablities far exceeding or matching B.O. is here and ready to keep the debate rolling...rather than flat line....
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- PRgoddess23
- 2 months ago
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PRgoddess23, if that off-the-mark comment was directed at me, please tell me then why retired_Navy doesn't know that far more whites receive scholarships than do blacks?
As far as trying to insinuate that Sarah Palin's abilities are on a par with Barack Obama's, you are living in some sort of Republican Candyland,
Tell me about where both McCain and Palin ranked in their respective graduating classes.
While we are critiquing education, please note that the word "furthermore" is not two words when used as you chose to use it. In addition, you should note that it is usually followed by a comma.
Of course it matters, as do their degrees, if for no other reason than to show that the student was exposed to and achieved a certain competency level in the disciplines taught.
The comparison of how long it took them and what they studied as well as their respective ranks in their graduating classes are all substantive values in helping to assess the competency of each candidate.
Cheers,
Ino
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- Inofuilwell
- 2 months ago
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