Make no doubt about it, folks.  This is critical news you need to know.

SPOKANE, Wash. - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended five colleges in six years before graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987.

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 of them 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.

I love all the read-between-the-lines innuendo here to make it sound like this is some deep and dark revelation about Palin’s past.

So she went to a lot of colleges.  Big flippin’ deal.  A lot of people do that this day.