Radical Ties an Issue as Dems Debate

Radical Ties an Issue as Dems Debate

April 17, 2008 10:37 AM
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2008/04/radical-ties-an.html

Justin Rood Reports:

The Democratic candidates’ ties to violent domestic radicals came up in last
night’s presidential debate, as ABC News’ Nitya Venkataraman

reported, highlighting a Clinton pardon I had omitted while first reporting
on this story in February.

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., hit Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for having
served on the board of a Chicago nonprofit with Bill Ayers, a former member
of the 1960s-era left-wing radical group the Weather Underground. "What they
did was set bombs, and in some cases people died. I know Sen Obama is a good
man and I respect him greatly but this is certainly something the
Republicans will be raising."

Obama hit back, pointing out — as I did in February — that Clinton had her
own ties to the group.

"President Clinton pardoned two members of the Weather Underground," Obama
said, "which is a bigger deal than serving on a board with someone."

As I reported in February when the Clinton camp first raised the issue, in
2001 then-president Bill Clinton pardoned Susan Rosenberg, a Weather
Underground member arrested in 1984 while unloading 740 pounds of dynamite
from the back of her car.

But Clinton indeed
pardoned a second — Linda Evans, who had been convicted of several
charges stemming from a series of bombings in the 1980s.

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