Jim Geraghty’s post at The Campaign Spot on Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s take on the close relationship between former “community organizer,” hard-Left agitator, infanticide-facilitating Barack Obama and former terrorist, hard-Left agitator, proudly America-hating Bill Ayers is mind-blowing. As Jim writes, Daley said, “It’s really unfortunate. They’re friends. So what? People do make mistakes in the past. You move on. This is a new century, a new time. [Ayers] reflects back and he’s been making a strong contribution to our community.”

Bombing the Pentagon is one of those “mistakes” that people make? Bombing the U.S. Capitol, too? And a police headquarters? Most of the people I know of who’ve made such “mistakes” now receive their mail at the United States “Supermax” Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.

And Ayers hasn’t “moved on.” When he “reflects back,” he brazenly says he’s sorry only that he didn’t do more in the way of terrorism, and maintains that America—the “mean country” his friend Michelle Obama hasn’t seen much reason to be proud of—makes him “want to puke.”

Moreover, the “strong contribution” Ayers has made to Chicago’s “community” has mainly been the urging of education and criminal justice policies that have led to surging crime and failing schools … and the launching of his friend Barack Obama’s career.

Stanley Kurtz is doing heroic work, and good for the McCain campaign to jump into the fray. If Daley feels the need to run this kind of preposterous interference, you can only imagine what must be in the Annenberg Challenge documents Obama supporters are working so hard to keep suppressed.