Obama Pulls Ad From Controversial Book's Amazon Page
The Washington Post reports that after being alerted by a reporter for the New York Sun, Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign "raced yesterday to take down a small ad for the campaign's Web site that appeared as one of several "sponsored links" on the Amazon.com page for The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, a controversial new book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt suggesting Israel has an excessive, detrimental influence over American goals in the Middle East.
"The Obama campaign says its ad probably appeared on the book's Amazon page simply because the campaign paid for its Web site to be mentioned on searches that included the word "politics," among other phrases, part of a publicity strategy being used by many 2008 candidates. Though the ad's link to the book was clearly unintentional, the campaign may be sensitive to any appearance of an anti-Israel tilt given that Obama had already met with a skeptical response among some Jewish voters this year."
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