Within the Palin Pantheon, there are two classes of weirdness:  the first makes a person go "ZOMG CRAZY ITZ OVER!" and the second elicits the response of "ha-WHUH?!"  This story falls clearly into the second class.  Nothing removal-worthy, but patently weird enough to fall decisively into the class of noteworthy biographical details of the esteemed governor's life that merit a "ha-WHUH?!"

I'm a college professor and I see students bouncing around between 2 and 4 year colleges quite often. Sometimes it's a matter of maturity, other times it's money. More people do this than you think, and it doesn't hinder them down the road.

You know I agree with Elrod. This to me doesn't mean much. Unless someone can show me transcripts with a lot of Fs on it I think this is a non story.

Lets see, I went to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 schools, yeah, I thought I had her beat (and thats all undergrad too so apples to apples), and since two of mine were in 'foreign' countries, that makes me even more evil!

As someone with a checkered college history myself, I think this plays into the whole elitist thing.

I got my degree.  It wasn't pretty.  She got hers.  

Do world leaders even need to graduate from college?   Is that a requirement now?

Is that a requirement now?

The requirement is that they answer questions and answer questions truthfully.

Grades are pertinent - especially in this case wherein Mcain in not holding up well and is particuarly academically challenged - I forget where he came in his naval class but it was like 395 out of 400.

Americans should learn from  their there massive mistakes an demand truth and intelligence - especially in this cycle.

Are we going to continue to suffer this Orwellian world where War is Peace, Ignorance is Knowledge and slavery is Freedom.

I think the republicans are going to announce that Palin's college history is off the table.

This is not the sort of issue we need to be going after. At least it's not her clothing or something like that, but it's still irrelevant compared to attacking her ethics, her false claims to be a reformer, and her social stances which are well out of the mainstream.

This makes the very real problems with her look more frivolous.

This seems like a silly attack to me.  I have friends who have switched colleges a couple times as well, so I can actually relate to this..

Why not attack policy, seriously.. this type of stuff just makes our side look petty.

Also one should keep in mind she finished college when a lot of women during her time did not.  We were still a very sexist country back then, and women were not pushed to get a college degree like men were.  I just don't see how brining this issue up helps our side at all...

looking at the comments in this diary I am very proud to be a dem. Instead of attacking her for the smallest things. I commend everyone for their defense of our opponent over this non issue . I doubt you will see people on conservative blogs (or some former dem blogs)  defending Obama on non issue like flag pins or "typical white lady" remarks

kudos to all  

We don't have to pick a vice president based upon their education, or intelligence, or experience, or ability to learn. They don't need to know anything about foreign policy, or legislation, or Washington. They just have to be photogenic, have ovaries, and appeal to the shotgun in the window of the pickup truck set.

The more I read, the more I'm convinced the death spiral of Republican ignorance may be impossible to get out of.

I see this as a non-issue especially when other politicians in the campaign are not disclosing theirs. It is better to leave this issue alone. If I was Obama, I would focus on Palin's history:
1) Give her credit for standing up against corruption in her state of Alaska (Of course, brought on by her own Republican party);

2) Tell the people that Gov. Palin has NOW decided to carry the water for the same, corrupt party that she had fought with in the past AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE.

3)She laughed while an Alaskan shock jock denigrated a fellow woman state legislator--she continued to laugh as the Republican mutt hurled his fuselage of sexist, downgrading attacks on a fellow woman politician. Does this sound like groundbreaking? No, it's more like a dust up! To the remarks of Sarah Palin being for women's right, I say, "No way, No how, Hell NO!!!

4) Gov. Palin has showcased her character in more than one occasion, not including the aforemention topics. Her supporters like to promote that she has strong character, expert ideas on energy, and vastly held reputation as a reformer. Now, as we look at Gov. Palin's history or should I say "Her-story," we find that Gov. Palin was initially for the infamous "Bridge To No Where" before she was against it. She was initially against the corrupt party that has entrenched America in joblessness and home ownership crises through a useless, new, unfair bankruptcy policy before she gleefully took up it's mantle. She was against unnecessary wars with unnecessary evils due to energy concerns, before the Republicans party asked her to become its attack dog. Lastly, Gov. Palin was initially for change and post-partisan politics, trumpeting her above 80% approval rating in the state of Alaska, before throwing change aside for the new word, reform. See, republicans like to parrot that we, democrats, like to gripe about the "smallness of the state Alaska." No, I would say that we are "griping about Gov. Palin's state of denial," especially over republican's eight year reign.

In the blink of an eye, Gov. Palin has proven to be the same old, divisive, corrupt politician that wants to continue the same old, divisive, corrupt tactics that has been characterized by the last eight years and the current Administration.

In this case, we do not need a reform; we need a complete, "turn-the-page" kind of change.  

She has shot a moose! Hey that has to count for something!