'08 candidates

The author of Daddy's Roommate has responded to Sarah Palin's attempt to remove his work from her hometown library. Celebrated author Michael Willhoite believes the Alaska Governor has a "small-town mind," is an enemy of intellectual freedom, and a "disastrous choice" for vice president.

A recent report in The New York Times emphasizes Gov. Palin's relationship with religious extremists.

The Times says she "...tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed a pastor to the town planning board. And she began to eye the library. For years, social conservatives had pressed the library director to remove books they considered immoral."