'Pro-Life' Terrorist Praised At 1993 McCain Speech Event

Nick Juliano at Raw Story makes a great catch: it turns out that in August, 1993, John McCain spoke before an ultra-right wing organization in Portland, Oregon.

Marylin Shannon, the vice chairwoman of the Oregon GOP, had a spot on the program to give an opening prayer. In short order, she praised the Grants Pass woman accused of shooting an abortion doctor in Wichita.

McCain accepted Shannon's kind words for the shooter without protest. Indeed, just a few months later he voted against legislation to protect abortion clinics from such violence.

The shooter was subsequently convicted of attempted murder.