Republicans were forced to strip the comment wall and discussion board from the page attached to its new Facebook parody, BarackBook.com, which just went online early this morning, because of comment posts that were racist and anti-Muslim … and some that were anti-Republican too.

The site had been designed by the Republican National Committee as an imitation of the popular social networking site, Facebook, and the comment wall appeared on the application page that allows users to link BarackBook to their personal Facebook profiles.

In addition to some vulgarities, the site also became the target of liberal bloggers at DailyKos.com, who urged their readers to “befriend barackbook and add the application and basically turn it into a pro-Obama site.” [...]

Before the comment wall and discussion board were taken offline, more than a few users appeared to take up that call. And the backlash also caught the attention of the Obama campaign. As Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for Mr. Obama, put it: “I agree with the first comment thread on their discussion board: ‘The site is lame.’”

Alex Conant, a spokesman for the R.N.C., said the ultimate goal of scrubbing the Facebook application page was to make sure the content was “consistent with a respectful campaign.”