While The Politico likes to refer to them as “radicals”, they were terrorists. We’re talking about a group that bombed U.S. government buildings, and whose leader (an Obama supporter) went on record saying he wish he’d targeted more.

As Allah notes, we already knew that a leader of the terror group, William Ayers, donated at least $200 to Obama’s campaign. We also knew Obama had appeared with Ayers years ago. We didn’t, however, know about the 1995 meeting with both Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

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…

Dr. Young and another guest, Maria Warren described [the event] similarly: As an introduction to Hyde Park liberals of the handpicked successor to Palmer, a well-regarded figure on the left.

“When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,” Warren, wrote on her blog in 2005. “They were launching him–introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread.”

Contacted by e-mail, Warren declined to describe the meeting further and later blogged of her concern that Republicans would use accounts of the event for “left-baiting.”.

Will this damage Obama? Doubtful. But Allah notes that if we replaced “Obama” with McCain, and “Ayers” with Eric Rudolph, we have a story the mainstream media is interested in. But this is Obamessiah and his meetings with terrorists will go largely unreported.