Dem Candidates Heart Terrorists

Jim Geraghty has a couple of items which point to an attraction that the Dem candidates seem to have with terrorists. First, Barack Obama:

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious – and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.

While the Clinton camp is trying to make the above story an issue, Geraghty points out the at least Obama hasn't actually pardoned some:

In 1999, the Clinton adminstration cravenly offered pardons to 16 hard-core, remorseless terrorists of the Puerto Rican terror group Armed Forces for National Liberation - the FALN. (Two of them rejected the deal.)

During the 1970s and '80s, the FALN waged a war against the people of the United States that included 130 plus bombings. Their most heinous attack was the January 1975 lunchtime bombing of Fraunces Tavern here in New York City. It killed four people, including... Frank Connor, 33.

These stories will help neither Clinton nor Obama, but they certainly can't hurt McCain.