Attention children's literature fans! Rush to the nearest bookstore and snap up your copy of "Daddy's Roommate" before it's too late! It may be target number one in a McCain/Palin administration.

The 1990 book by Michael Willhoite — targeted at 3 to 8 year-olds — was apparently singled out by Sarah Palin for banning from the Wasilla, Alaska public library

Witnesses and contemporary news accounts say Ms. Palin asked the librarian about removing books from the shelves. The McCain-Palin presidential campaign says Ms. Palin never advocated censorship.

But in 1995, Ms. Palin, then a city councilwoman, told colleagues that she had noticed the book "Daddy's Roommate" on the shelves and that it did not belong there, according to Ms. Chase and Mr. Stein. Ms. Chase read the book, which helps children understand homosexuality, and said it was inoffensive; she suggested that Ms. Palin read it.

"Sarah said she didn't need to read that stuff," Ms. Chase said. "It was disturbing that someone would be willing to remove a book from the library and she didn't even read it."

Considering that the children’s book is 32 pages long and has one sentence per page, I can’t imagine that it would have taken up too much of Palin’s time. But I can understand her desire to not have to read the kind of graphic filth portrayed by Willhoite. Here's an excerpt from a 1993 Entertainment Weekly review…

No political strife intrudes on this cheerful story told by a small boy who easily accepts the love and stability offered by Dad and Dad's roommate. "My Mommy and Daddy got a divorce last year. Daddy and his roommate Frank live together. When weekends come, we do all sorts of things together," including visits to the zoo and ball games. Dad and Frank are forthrightly shown sharing the housework, fighting and making up, watching TV, and sleeping (just sleeping) in the same bed. The bright, cartoonish pictures have the mainstream-America feel of an Archie comic.

Repulsive! I can only hope that after being forced to think about this garbage, Palin was able to clear her mind by butchering a moose.