DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE AND ARAFAT

Democratic Candidate and Arafat (NYSun)
"Democrats called on the Republican candidate for Florida's governor to stop associating his opponent with Yasser Arafat," the JTA reports.

Charlie Crist's campaign has run commercials featuring a 2002 photograph of U.S. Rep. Jim Davis (D-Fla.) meeting with the late Palestinian leader as part of a congressional delegation. Rudy Giuliani, a Republican star and the former mayor of New York, chided Davis for the meeting while stumping for Crist this weekend.

The meeting took place at a time when President Bush refused to allow Arafat to visit the White House, but before the Bush administration decided to totally isolate him because of his backing for terrorism during the second intifada.

Sounds like what the Republicans are doing is fair play. Meeting a known terrorist that the White House was trying to isolate is quite a significant act. Far cry from the heroics Mayor Giuliani showed when he kicked the PLO chief out of the Lincoln Center in 1995.