Good sport my foot. She loved every minute of SNL for one big reason - Fame. Look at her life story, athlete fame, beauty pageant fame, TV sports reporter fame. And when these high profile glamor positions were not lasting she accepted the fame that comes from being a mayor, then governor. Politics isn't her passion or forte, its just what was what came along to give her the fame she has desired her whole life. I think being on SNL in her mind is just another high point in her claim for fame life.

The popularity of any one individual Evangelical Church or congregation is 100% dependent on the personality of the Pastor. These "Bible Churches" lose or gain members based on how popular or unpopular the Pastor and his personality rate with members. They also share the flaw of many reformist churches and that is that the Bible is the infallible word of God, written by God. It's interesting that in the Orthodox Catholic and Roman Catholic Churches the Bible is not the center piece of those respective churches. The Gospel is read at Liturgy and Masses, and it is the word of God and unquestioned by those that practice the faith. But Bible study has never been a strong part of either Catholic faction. The reason is quite simple, under pressure from Emperor Constantine the church was ordered to compile the story of Jesus and his message in a book that was to be the basis of understanding of the Christian Religion. There was never universal agreement as to what ‘stories’ made the book and which were rejected. The Bible is at best a compromise with good intention to portray Christian beliefs and the message of Christ. It was also intended to define and set the power of a manmade power base of ‘Organized Religion’. I believe in the Bible as a guide as to how to lead my life, but the message is only reveled when the entire content of the Bible is used to reach decisions, not just one passage or line. Even prior to the written Bible Saul (St Paul) decided that to grow converts to Christianity it was not helping the cause if converts first had to become converts to Judaism. Christ was a practicing Jew; the path to Christianity is a progression through Judaism. Not many grown men were keen to be circumcised to have to convert. So Saul did away with over 800 Jewish laws to make it easier to convert pagans to Christianity. In Leviticus he keeps the passage that dealt with “a man lying with a man”, but did away with not eating shellfish or pork. The point is that all organized religion is flawed, and to base everything without question on the Bible, written by man, can lead to conflicts of God’s true intentions on how we should live. Evangelicals seem to have more hate that love for the fellow man than any other Christian religion. They also seem to place more on intentions rather than results, and maybe that explains the popularity of this religion. Compare the core of Evangelical beliefs to the Sermon on the Mount, seems to me that the is a disconnect between the Evangelicals and the tenets of the Sermon on the Mount.

Palin will do anything to keep those 15 minutes of fame alive. I get a kick out of the fact that she has become a "Personality" more than a serious contender as the flag bearer for the GOP. This gal will do anything to get what she wants, and she is very smart at Spin, so what's next? Say maybe the next step is to have that personal sex tape of her and Todd somehow get out on the Internet. Hey it worked for Paris, and Sarah could be in the missionary position, that should appease the religious right.

In some ways this whole process seems way over board when we consider the bailout given to Wall St fat cats, with no oversight or strings attached. The car makers bailout has more to do with Main St than Wall St and that seems to have less appeal to the GOP lawmakers. In particular Sen. Bob Corker seems bent on putting in union busting terms as a condition to funding. Hey they made SUVs and V8s because that was what the domestic market wanted. The quality of most of the big 3 cars the last 5 years is as good as the imports. The press continues to feed the notion that imports are better, not always true. By the way the docks in Socal are loaded with imports that no one is buying now because of the economy.Lets take 2 months of the cost to repair Iraq and repair America.