Amazon.com listing had Barack Obama Halloween mask under 'terrorist'

You know that argument the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign has been relentlessly making that Barack Obama "pals" around with terrorists such as '60s ex-radical William Ayers?

And they say this reflects on his poor judgment because of other associates such as Rev. Jeremiah Wright and newly-convicted Tony Rezko?

And worried Obama PR folks jump right on the e-mail whenever Obama and Ayers and the word "friend" appear together anywhere, even though Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Obama chief strategist David Axelrod have called them friends or friendly.

Anyway, a listing on Amazon.com, one of the largest and most successful online merchandisers in the world, seemed to come down even beyond the Republicans' side -- for a while anyway. With Halloween just days away, they're making a bundle off a $49.95 Barack Obama mask.

Which was displayed on the "terrorist costume" page.

You read that right!

(UPDATE: Amazon's listing seems to have caught itself and deleted the Obama mask from the terrorist page. However, before that happened, The Ticket captured a photo. See below.)

Click on the Read more line below and see the online display....

...picture for yourself. There's the Democrats' presidential candidate smiling right under the headline "Terrorist Costume."

For comparison purposes, a Hillary Clinton mask is going for only $6.95 (down from $12.99). Even with her 18 million votes. The Sarah Palin mask, however, is going for $25 (Deluxe versions cost 98 cents more, but it's eligible for free shipping).

The Joe Biden T-shirts and life-size cutouts (sorry, no mask) have been marked down. The John McCain page offers paper masks for 99 cents and a rubber one for $12.90 (marked down from $16.99).

While the "Sexy McCain Trophy Perfect Wife Halloween Costume" goes for only $14.94 (no doubt because there's really not that much to it).

The Obama terrorist page listed related searches as "arab costume, terrorist."

--Andrew Malcolm

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Amazon.com page formerly advertising a Barack Obama Halloween mask under "terrorist costume":

Image Credit: Top of the Ticket blog

Here's the Deluxe version of the Barack Obama mask available on Amazon.com ($19.99). Pretty scary, allright:

Comments

[Susan Moreno]

Truth hurts doesn't it Obama fans ? Way to go Amazon !!

[Shawn Cheskiewicz]

LOL !!!!!!!!!!!

[meadau_des@yahoo.com]

You are as guilty as the rest of the word for continuing this ridiculous, drive to pump fear and hatred into Americans! Do you not think that even printing this garbage is sensationalizing ignorance ? What do you call hate for a way a person lives, the color of their skin, the way they worship, using violence and hate tactics and insighting riots against them because of it, brainwashing the followers, the weak into believing rhetoric against them, all in the name of religion and purity of race? It is terrorism and it is happening right here in our country everyday against United States Citizens, some of whom go off to fight and die for this very country every day, And you allow press for the likes of SARAH PALIN the "former " AIP member who is " going along to get along" and Elizabeth "right wing " Hasselbeck ? I had the greatest respect for McCain and his Service record , being military myself, however his choices these days have been called into question as have been so many other Americans, and it shows exactly where we are in relation to the rest of the world, and exactly why we are headed in the direction we are headed in! Revisit how the Russian people had to stand in line for food, that will be this Country under a greedy, politically corrupt, ignorant, PALIN administration!

[dbuck]

I'll shop at Amazon from now on! How hilarious! You people shouldn't whine so much about the little stuff, there are bigger things to worry about! I get a big kick out of you crying foul over insignificant crap like this, who cares! Get a life!

[Cammie]

This is so overtly prejudice. I am so sick of conservatives on delusional steroids. You all will stop at nothing to win and frankly I cannot wait to see the "terror" on your faces Nov. 5, when Obama wins the election. How about making a mask called the right wing reject?

[Kathryn Jones]

My most recent order from Amazon.com is too late to cancel, but there will be no more orders coming from me.

[Garaphin]

That product was posted by a 3rd party seller, not Amazon itself. "Disguise" is the name of the seller, not Amazon.

[srrdsmith]

Needless to say i will NEVER shop amazon.com again. I will not tolerate or support blatant rascism.

[WHAT]

No one's upset at the SEXY MCCAIN TROPHY WIFE??? we can only hope that obama doesn't get elected and destroy our economy with his business/investment-stifling tax policies.

[Connie Rucker]

Please don't tell me Amazon.com has no control on what's on their website! Someone in authority made this happen and they should be fired because of lossed revenue and stupity. I WILL NEVER ORDER FOR AMAZON AGAIN!

[M. Mazed]

Get over it indeed. What a bunch of whiners. The same ones no doubt that snigger and forward condescending emails and ads that target the right. Amazon, though I do not believe this ad appearing on your site was for your part, intentionally anti-Obama, there is far too much evidence that supports the inference made by the tag. Amazon, I liked you before but you have now succeeded in making me a customer for life, if only as a protest in the face of such abject whining that I find so prevalent with the liberals in particular.

[JL MEALER]

Great Job AMAZON!

Looks like I need to shop Amazon from now on as they are unafraid to say it the way it is...

McCain-Palin 2008 or we are screwed!

[JL MEALER]

Okay.. I'll take the credit for it...

[orangee]

I love Amazon!!!! This is a false claim!!!

[unknown]

Louise - Only one candidate has been CONVICTED OF COMMITING FRAUD and it is ::GASP:: John McCain! The Keating Scandal should have killed his career. Not to mention divorcing his wife while she's in the hospital, since her "looks faded away."

Only one criminal is running for office. His name is John McCain.

[George]

Why don't someone or even amazon.com or maybe ebay have a mask for George W Bush Sr and Jr and you could find it under the search results Idiot because these 2 take the cake on being idiots, we are still living under the ideas of Papa Bush and it was a bad ideas back in 88 til 92 hope to never see anyone this stupid ever be president again at least during my life time, he can't leave quick enough for me !!!

[J~]

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAH....AMAZON COULD BE RIGHT. !!!!!

[Debra Noji]

Goodbye Amazon--if you don't have the forethought to protect yourself against lawsuits or forsight to stay neutral for the sake of your business, you're just too stupid to be in business. Hope anyone holding your stock gets out now before it dives any lower.

[Greg]

You people really need to wake up. This listing has nothing to do with Amazon directly. Any amazon seller can create a listing with whatever key words they want. With more than 1.4 million registered sellers (more than Ebay has) you can't really expect them to be able to police every new listing. This was just some clever seller trying to get alot of free publicity for their listing (which was accomplished quite well). Amazon's only responsibility was to remove the listing, which they did as soon as they found out.

[Detroit City Rocks]

WOW! The Obama internet blog trolling team sure doesn't like this, like everything else it doesn't like about America, and everyone. Too bad for it since it won't be getting my vote, unlike all the fictional and invented names they had registered to stuff the ballots and make financial contributions through credit loans. Obama isn't the America I want, either. Neither does America from the real looks of it.

[AGSurfer]

This is really silly. It is clearly the work of a prankster, and someone not affiliated with a campaign. If anything, it just makes more people vote Obama.

But what I find really find funny is the right wing conspiracy theorists who are "afraid" of Obama and his muslim or former terrorist supporters. What, exactly is he going to do have the US military attack itself because he talked to some people or took some donations from fringe groups.

If anti-abortion terrorists who kill doctors or KKK members donate money to McCain does that make McCain a terrorist? I would say no. The Saudi Royal Family supported Bush, it's not like we started a war over oil.... bad example.

People who are bigoted have found shelter through the "terrorist" label. They can't say, "I won't vote for him because he's black." anymore. They can try to label him unpatriotic or "terrorist". The greatest irony is the fact that Sarah Palin's husband is a separtist who tried to break Alaska off from the US so they could sell the oil to the US at higher prices, like Saudi Arabia. How unpatriotic is that?

[Sharmera Mason]

I cannot believe how stupid people are! You all just cannot see any good in people of color! Why de-fame an educated black man just to try and make money ? This was a really bad business move! Amazon, you are "falling from grace". Just keep doing the stupid stuff you do (like this mask) and sit back and watch the Black's and Hispanic's take the no.#1 spot!!!!!!!!!!! Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Oh, by the way, Amazon just lost another customer!

[American]

McCain's home state of Arizona while he was a Senator is where Al-qaeda first set up base in the USA. With McCain's Saudi connections I guess that makes sense:

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a1986alkifaharizona

So McCain has closer ties to terrorists than Obama does.

[Alexandra]

I cancelled my Amazon account when they refused to stop carrying books on training dogs for "dog fighting" aka Michael Vick. So, I'm not at all surprised to hear they are inciting fear, racism and violence outside in the human realm. I just order books through my local stores now, and I encourage everyone else to do the same.

[Asimplesmuck]

The largest LIE? His "American Birth Certificate" is actually a re-doctored copy of his half sister! HIS REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE? Filed officially (& secretly) in the U.K. (?!) Yes! Under British Commonwealth Kenyan Government Birth Registry. As well as in the current Kenyan Government's Birth Registry! Why? Because when Mr. Hussein Obama was being born, his Father was an employee of the British Commonwealth Government of Kenya! By Royal Commonwealth Law, ALL Government Emplyees with pregnant spouces, were REQUIRED to remain "ON COMMONWEALTH SOIL" until after their birth! Mr. Obama, & his Wife were blocked @ the main Airport in Kenya's Capitol by the Government Military, as she was about to go into labour. Barack H. Obama was born at the main Commonwealth Government's MILITARY INSTALATION HOSPITAL! They then released her & the new born to her EMPLOYEE Husband. They then boarded a flight to Hawaii, WHERE they attempted to file for a Hawaiian Birth Certificate, but were blocked! Thus Mr. Obama, his Wife, his Campaign Manager's, Attornies, & the DNC, have been forced to place legal block, as several former District Attornies, several States, and others across the USA have been filing numerous legal briefs in an attempt to FORCE the TRUTH to be broadcast! THAT MR. OBAMA, a COUSIN to the Royal House of Windsor, as is Wm. Cheney, Wm. Jefferson Blythe Clinton, & the Bush Family, & former President Gerald Ford, as well as Jimmy Carter, are all as well; does not meet the Constitutional Requirement to be President!!! Therefore: Mr. Obama is the MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE!!! IF USA ELECTS Mr. Obama as President, HE WILL BE THE ILLEGAL ONE, NOT CONSTITUTIONALLY ALLOWED TO SIT ON THE "THRONE" ruling over the vast US/Commonwealth Empire. Can the USA afford one more ROYAL COUSIN in the White House? Let's see: Gerald Ford {Royal Cousin} 1972-1974, Jimmy Carter, {Royal Cousin}, 1974-1978, Ronald Reagan>the Acting President (with George Herbert Walker Bush/former Head of the CIA spy agency, {ROYAL COUSIN}, running the White House as V.P.) 1978-1984, &, 1984-1988. Followed by Former Chief CIA SPY, {Royal Cousin} CHIEF CIA SPY ROYAL COUSIN, George Herbert Walker Bush, President 1988-1992! Followed by his Cousin, the ROYAL COUSIN Wm. Jefferson Blythe Clinton & his British Titled MeDamme(Daughter od Lord Rodham); Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1992-2000. Followed by ROYAL COUSIN & Cousin of Mr. Clinton, the 2nd Bush, George Walker Bush, 2000-2008!!!
SO! AFTER 36 YEARS OF ROYAL COUSINS RUNNING THE US WHITE HOUSE, each adding powers and new "Directives" that each go beyond the Constitutional Power's alloted to the Executive Branch; WE NOW ARE FACED WITH A ROYAL THROUGH THE DUNHAM COUSIN FAMILY TO THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR BY WAY OF EDWARD. (Except) THIS ROYAL IS NOT AMERICAN BORN! HE IS NOT A NATURALIZED US CITIZEN! He is not Constitutionally fit to serve as President! Plus!!! The current non-Commonwealth-"Free" Kenyan Government in 2005-2006 declared FULL KENYAN CITIZENSHIP & AMBASSADORIAL STATUS upon Barack Hussein Obama, & Kenyan Citizenship upon his Wife & Daughters!
AND, WHAT ABOUT JOHN MC CAIN & SARAH PALIN?? Neither of them are ROYAL!!!! Why is the battle so fierce? Because the "Power's who are in Control" want to continue the U.K.'s quiet RULERSHIP over the USA by way of the "American Throne" the White House! Their "Allies" in the DNC, many whose families were long ago titled as Lords, Knights, Squires, by the Royal House of Windsor, or, were put on major Congressional & Senatorial Committees and Chairs, by those in power, that are controled by Royal Cousin's, and those in power from Titles of Lord, Knight or Squire, now living long in the USA, yet secretly loyal to the U.K.; Are desperate to continue the long, yet secret, line of Royalty & Titleship in all the top "Seat's of Power" in our U.S. Government! The only way for it to be "Broken", is for the "Commoner Citizenry" to stop believing ALL of the Media Propaganda & Campaign hyporperbaly, AND ELECT TO THE WHITE HOUSE, A COMMONER TO THE PRESIDENCY & THE VICE PRESIDENCY; John "Young" Mc Cain, & Sarah Palin. If elected, there will be possibly up to 16 year's for the American Commoner People Citizen's, to trully free the USA of it's ties to Royalty. (AND) In the LEAST the USA will have a truly Constitutionally Legally Elected President for four year's. [Ask "John Kerry"! He understands! His Grandfather, before iummigrating to the USA & changing their family name, was Titled by the former Royal House that ruled over former Austria! as a LORD! From the early Middle Ages, the Royal's in the U.K. and the Royals in Old Austria were always at odds! ] [Ask Al Gore, the Frenchman by liniage! There has never been a Frenchman seated in the White House as President! ] [Check the Royal Birth Registry's of Royalty & Titled Family Lines in the U.K. Anyone with half the will & gutts, can! One will find that ALL U.S. President's from George Washington to George Walker Bush have either been U.K> Royal Relatives or U.K. Titled Families! (Except six!) With those SIX President's; EITHER THEIR VICE PRESIDENT or, THEIR SECRETARY OF STATE were either UNited Kingdom Royalty related, or United Kingdom Titled Lords! And the United Colonies, called the United States "Won" it's Independence from the Royal House of Windsor in the American Revolution! (?) Then, why is it, that one can study ALL LAWS FIRST PASSED IN THE United Kingdom, & within 15 years, they get passed identically, in the U.S> Congress & Senate & signed into LAW by a Royal or Titled President! [This one knows the truth because she's on the "titled inside".] LUV YA!