Sarah Palin plays herself (not very convincingly) on Saturday Night Live:
Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama on Meet the Press. (Certain of our commenters should pay special attention to his account of a picture he saw of a mother visiting her son’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery.):
Update: Here’s the picture Powell referred to (from a photo essay in The New Yorker):
![arlington-grave.jpg](http://www.hurryupharry.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/arlington-grave.jpg)