'O' Author: Palin a 'Lusty Librarian'

Somehow I get the feeling the mystery author of this Barack Obama book has a copy of this photo that's kept on the nightstand. Just saying. Now here all this time I thought we weren't supposed to objectify women? Well, whoever wrote this tripe sure seems to have the hots for Sarah Palin.

But we're hearing buzz that Mark Salter, John McCain's closest aide and speechwriter on the 2008 campaign, is the ghostwriter. Salter co-authored McCain's biography, "Faith of My Fathers," and continues to work as a speechwriter. His adjective-filled style is similar to the "O" author's.

The book isn't flattering to characters loosely based on Obama's inner circle and other political figures. In a nod to Sarah Palin, "The Barracuda" is described as a "lusty librarian" with "thick hair piled up high, chin out, defiant, taunting, flaunting that whole lusty librarian thing, sweet and savory, mother and predator, alluring and dangerous." O himself is suspected of having a split personality -- "Good O and Bad O."

Sweet and savory? Mother and predator? Good grief. Send this dreck back for a rewrite.

No wonder the author wants to remain anonymous.