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by Mark Silva

Sarah Palin says she is no birther.

The author of Going Rogue insists that she has never suggested that President Barack Obama, a native of Hawaii, was not born in the United States.

Yet, in a radio interview this week, the Republican candidate for vice president last year suggested that the veracity of Obama's birth certificate is a worthy question. (She also spoke of "the snake-oil'' science behind climate-change theories -- ''the fact is, the Caribou population is increasing,'' Palin noted.)

Paln made an appearance Thursday on Rusty Humphries' radio showsee the full talk above. Humphries asked his guest, seen by some as a potential candidate for president in 2012, this question:

"Would make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?''

"Um, I think the public, rightfully, is still making it an issue,'' Palin replied. "I don't have a problem with that. Um, I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think enough members of the electorate still want answers.''

"Do you think it's a fair question to be looking at?'' the host asked.

"I think it's a fair question, just like I think past associations and past voting records, all of that is fair game,'' Palin told Humphries.

"You know, I gotta tell you, too, I think our campaign, the McCain-Palin campaign, didn't do a good enough job in that area. We didn't call out Obama and some of his associates on their records and what their beliefs were, and perhaps what their future plans were, and I don't think that that was fair to voters, to not have done our jobs as candidates and as a campaign to bring to light a lot of things that now we're seeing made manifest in the administration.''

Humphries added: "I mean, truly, if your past is fair game and your kids are fair game, certainly Obama's past should be. I mean, we want to treat men and women equally, right?

"Hey, you know, that's a great point,'' Palin said. "In that weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about, that Trig isn't my real son, a lot of people that, 'Well, you need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he's your kid,' which we have done, but yeah, so maybe we should reverse that and use the same type of thinking on the other one.''

After Salon.com pointed out Palin's words on the Obama birth certificate question, the governor made this early morning entry on her famous Facebook page, now nearing 1.1 million in followers.

"Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I've pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask... which they have repeatedly.

"But at no pointnot during the campaign, and not during recent interviewshave I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.

- Sarah Palin

"I'm so thankful for Facebook,'' Palin told the radio host also. "I don't have to go through the mainstream media... spinning my words.''

"We love you,'' Humphries told Palin.

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