The number is closer to $3,000 unless they're actually nuts enough to classify any trip where Palin attended church during the trip as a "religious expense."

This is pathetic, to use your own term.

How much longer do you think the media can carry off having squads of reporters in Alaska and none in Chicago?

How much longer is the media going to be able to carry off the notion that Palin's churchgoing is matter of national priority, and Obama's church means nothing?

How much longer is the media going to do what it's doing without it becoming a legitimate legal issue as actual campaign contributions?

Go look up Billy Graham and U.S. Presidents sometime. Tell me no taxpayer funds were used for those trips and interactions. Of course, back then, the Democrats weren't crazy.