Sarah Palin Rebuffs 'Birthers,' but Some Supporters Just Won't Have It

A day after calling the questioning of President Obama's citizenship a "fair question," Sarah Palin took to her Facebook page to make herself clear: She is not a "birther," and compared the hunt for Obama's "true" birth certificate to rumors during the 2008 campaign that her son, Trig, was not really her child.

"Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose," Palin wrote. "But at no point -- not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews -- have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States."

But some of Palin's Facebook fans reacted negatively, suggesting that she is turning her back on a crucial means of removing Obama from office. "Why is . . . asking for his birth certificate a bad thing? I'll grab at anything to get this creep out of office!" one wrote. Another wondered "why he's spent so much money hiding his birth certificate from the public if there's nothing compromising in it?" (The Washington Independent compiles the highlights here.)