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Sarah Palin, the political celebrity and former Alaska governor, will start her second book tour next week as she continues to tease the media about a possible presidential run in 2012.

The Daily Beast reports that the tour for her book, “America by Heart: Reflections on Faith, Family and Flag,” will begin in Phoenix on Nov. 23. But already, portions of the book are leaking out.

Ms. Palin is harshly critical of Levi Johnston, the ex-boyfriend of her daughter, Bristol. According to the Washington Post’s Reliable Source, Ms. Palin trashes the father of her daughter’s child.

“Because the new father wasn’t there until the end of Bristol’s labor, I helped deliver Tripp,” Ms. Palin writes in the book, according to the Post.

Ms. Palin writes in the book that she gave up chocolate for a year, and she recounts bagging a caribou in the Alaskan tundra – the kind of outdoorsy activity that helped land her a reality television show on the cable channel TLC.

Other excerpts of the book were published on an anti-Palin Web site, Palingates. In those excerpts, Ms. Palin slams the show “American Idol” as featuring talentless contestants. And she criticizes Michelle Obama for the comment she made during the campaign about having never felt proud of her country until her husband started winning elections.

Ms. Palin complained in a Twitter message about the leaks from her book. “The publishing world is leaking out-of-context excerpts of my book w/out my permission?” she wrote in the message Thursday. “Isn’t that illegal?”

But the leaks from the book – along with the interviews that Ms. Palin has started giving to The New York Times and Barbara Walters – have already attracted comment from the White House.

Vice President Joe R. Biden Jr. said on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Thursday night that Ms. Palin is an appealing figure who, as a potential challenger to President Obama, should not be taken lightly. But he also said Mr. Obama would likely win such a contest.

“Well, you know, my mom used to have an expression, be careful what you wish for, Joe, you may get it. So I never underestimate anyone,” Mr. Biden said. “But I think, in that race, it would be a clear, clear choice for the country to make, and I believe President Obama would be in very good shape.”

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The promise dates back to the earliest days of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. “Obama Calls for the Repeal of Bush Tax Cuts” was the headline in the Feb. 22, 2007, Des Moines Register. Speaking to more than 2,000 Iowans at a town hall rally, Obama said, “Some of the tax breaks George Bush gave to [...]

From Today’s Times:

– The draft proposal from President Obama’s bipartisan debt commission has angered some on the left (for suggesting cuts in programs like Medicare and Social Security) and the right (for putting forward some tax increases). As The Times’s Jackie Calmes reports, those reactions illustrate the difficulties in trying to address the country’s long-term budget problems.

– Previous experience not necessary: The Times’s Jennifer Steinhauer writes that roughly 40 new House and Senate members are coming to Congress after capturing their first elected office — the most in decades.

– The Times’s William Yardley finds that Gail Fenumiai — who has been assessing whether write-in ballots in Alaska were cast for Senator Lisa Murkowski — is used to her own name being misspelled.

– A draft report from the Pentagon found that repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” might cause some temporary disruptions, but no overall harm, The Times’s Elisabeth Bumiller reports. (The report also found that a fair number of service members do oppose allowing gays to serve openly in the military.)

– “Part documentarian, part White House-message-machine post”: That’s the Times’s Ashley Parker’s description of Arun Chaudhary, the official White House videographer, who follows the president behind the scenes and out in the open to craft a weekly recap of his activities.

From Around the Web:

– There’ are a couple of caveats in there: Midterm elections aren’t the greatest predictors of presidential races, plus a lot can change in two years. But Politico finds Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign seems likely to be more akin to the close races in 2000 or 2004 than to his own 2008 landslide.

– Is Nancy Pelosi’s decision to try and stick around as top Democrat in the House good or bad for her party? The Washington Post finds the current speaker certainly has her talents (fund-raising, counting votes). But some Democrats worry that keeping Ms. Pelosi as leader sends the wrong message, given their party’s recent resounding defeat.

– The Tea Party Patriots are accusing more establishment Republicans of trying to undermine a two-day event they have organized for newly elected members of Congress, The Wall Street Journal reports.

– The Los Angeles Times finds that Republicans have dug in after last week’s midterms, but that their hard-line stances may end up turning off voters who aren’t so fond of either party.

Washington Daybook:

– With his work at the G-20 complete, Mr. Obama is headed to Japan, the final stop on their tour of Asia.

– Daniel K. Tarullo, a member of the Federal Reserve board, is scheduled to speak at a George Washington University forum on financial regulations.

– The Labor Department is slated to release third quarter figures on extended mass layoffs, while the Federal Reserve is set to release data on American banks’ assets and liabilities.

– In advance of the lighting of this year’s national Christmas tree, the National Park Service will accept suggestions from the public.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the conservative congresswoman who has become a superstar within the tea party movement, announced Wednesday that she is running for the number three leadership position in the House when Republicans choose their leaders later this month. The position is being vacated by Rep. Mike Pence, who announced Wednesday that he is [...]

Everyone is a little fixated on those elections happening on Tuesday, right? But in the middle of the final crunch, I spent a few hours with Elizabeth Warren, the families-friendly, populist Harvard law professor, whom President Obama recently tapped to be both an adviser to him and to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. In that latter [...]