Oddly enough, Mother Jones has a point:

… Wolfson and Phil Singer, another top Clinton aide, had hammered Barack Obama for having held a fundraiser during his first state senate campaign in Illinois at the home of William Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois and a former aide to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who was a member of the radical Weather Underground Organization, which was responsible for several bombings in the early 1970s. Ayers was never arrested for his activities. But in 2001, he did say, “I don’t regret setting bombs.” … When it came time for questions for Wolfson, I asked an obvious one: Did Hillary Clinton believe that it had been appropriate in 2001 for President Bill Clinton to have pardoned two members of the Weather Underground as he left office? The two recipients of Clinton’s munificence were Linda Evans, who was sentenced to five years in prison for her participation in a string of 1980s bombings, and Susan Rosenberg, who was charged with participating in a bank robbery that left one guard and two police officers dead. And, I continued, has Senator Clinton ever criticized this decision? Has she ever said anything publicly about it? Rosenberg, I noted, had been apprehended with 740 pounds of explosives in her possession.

There’s more to the story than Obama’s ties to terrorist William Ayers or the Clintons’ ties to terrorists Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg, though the fact that both Democratic hopefuls have links to the same terrorist organization is worrisome. There’s the Clinton pardon of FALN terrorists, who conducted 120 bombing attacks against the United States. There’s Mrs. Clinton’s days as a law-school volunteer helping the defense by monitoring the trial of two Black Panthers accused of torturing and murdering a rival. There’s Mrs. Clinton’s internship in the law offices of Robert Treuhaft, an operative for the Communist Party USA, her professed admiration for Saul Alinsky …. All worth reporting on, I’d think. The Rev. Wright isn’t the only kook in this orbit.

Of course, one suspects that the writers at Mother Jones regard these associations as credentials.