Dems would like to take last nights debate to Heathrow Terminal 5

Gail Collins looks at the debate over baggage last night in Philadelphia. I mention Heathrow Terminal 5 because of the thousands of bags that were laso there in just the first days of operation when it opened a few days ago.

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In the first half-hour of the 24th debate Wednesday night, the Democratic candidates for president tossed personal baggage back and forth like a tennis ball. The “bitter” comment. (Hillary mentioned once again that her grandfather worked in a Scranton lace factory.) The baking blunder. (Cue the cookies.) Jeremiah Wright and the nonexistent Bosnian sniper, where Clinton’s admission of guilt was so fulsome that Obama declined to press the issue.

Obama acknowledged knowing Bill Ayers, the former member of the Weather Underground who refused to apologize for the anti-war bombings during the Vietnam era. But then, he volleyed back, Hillary’s husband had pardoned some Weathermen.

“This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago ... somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old,” Obama complained.

No fair blaming the 8-year-olds!

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Wait a minute Collins. Obama was not an 8-year-old kid on 9-11 when Ayers said he was proud of his terrorism and wished he had done more. Nor is there any evidence that he has repented of that statement before Obama met with him to plan his Illinois state senate campaign. Collins ignores the obvious evasion and goes into a rift on age as an issue in the campaign.

Collins closes by saying, "Five more days and then it’s on to the next primary. Let’s try not to say anything insulting about Guam." I have heard that there Mexican food has improved since I was there nearly 40 years ago when Ayers was out bombing the Pentagon and other public buildings.

In the Times story on the Ayers question the lead is about members of the group who blew up themselves while engaging in bomb making instead of their attacks on "the Capitol, the Pentagon, the State Department Building and banks, courthouses and police stations" which comes at the end of the second paragraph. They also attempt to excuse Ayers comments about wishing he could have done more by explaining they were said before 9-11 and happened to be printed that day before the attacks. They are still reprehensible.