McCain's Terrorist Problem

While Sarah Palin continues to go out and lie about Barack Obama's connection to Bill Ayers, with John McCain's implicit approval, it is McCain who should look in the mirror. While Sarah Palin is inciting the mob to brand Obama a terrorist, it is McCain who has been consorting with domestic terrorists, with a Northwest connection.

McCain and Marylin Shannon — a 2008 McCain delegate and former vice chair of the Oregon Republican Party — both appeared at an August, 1993 fundraiser for the far right Oregon Citizens Alliance. McCain appeared against the advice of Mark Hatfield, a GOP senator from Oregon, who feared that the group’s extremist views would taint McCain.

Shannon, who attended this year’s Republican National Convention as a McCain delegate, spoke immediately before McCain and “praised the Grants Pass woman accused of shooting an abortion doctor in Wichita” earlier in the month, referring to her as a “fine lady.” When McCain spoke next, he said nothing about Shannon’s vile comments and delivered his speech as prepared.

Just a few months later, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve a crucial anti-domestic terrorism bill, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. McCain opposed the bill.

What's that they say about glass houses and stones?