[quote]DrSkeptix wrote:
entheogens wrote:
pushharder wrote:
entheogens wrote:
…It would probably be the same if I looked at Clinton’s…
You have a short memory.
I don’t have a short memory, because I never investigated who or why Clinton pardoned. I do know, from the article cited, that he pardoned many more people than Bush has.
As I said, I am not looking to bash anybody here, just wanting to know what is the motivation behind the majority of these pardons.
You want memory? You want motivation? You want topical? Look no further:
"Many quids and many quos were mooted by these investigations (still incomplete at the time of writing) though perhaps not enough unambivalent pros. You can’t say that about the Marc Rich and other pardons?the vulgar bonanza with which the last Clinton era came to an end. Rich’s ex-wife, Denise Rich, gave large sums to Hillary Clinton’s re-election campaign and to Bill Clinton’s library, and Marc Rich got a pardon. Edgar and Vonna Jo Gregory, convicted of bank fraud, hired Hillary Clinton’s brother Tony and paid him $250,000, and they got a pardon. Carlos Vignali Jr. and Almon Glenn Braswell paid $400,000 to Hillary Clinton’s other brother, Hugh, and, hey, they, respectively, got a presidential commutation and a presidential pardon, too. In the Hugh case, the money was returned as being too embarrassing for words (and as though following the hallowed custom, when busted or flustered, of the Clinton-era DNC). But I would say that it was more embarrassing to realize that a former first lady, and a candidate for secretary of state, was a full partner in years of seedy overseas money-grubbing and has two greedy brothers to whom she cannot say no.
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So far, Bush’s efforts pale in comparison.[/quote]
True. I think Clinton had close to 150 pardons and 34 or so commutations. Bush mach1 had a similar amount if memory serves. Bush 2.0 seems a little stingy in his doling out of pardons. Normally the pardons and the commutations are handed out to people that have some tie to the president’s party or are some type of relation like Roger Clinton was. The opposite side is never pleased with the results of the process and whines incessantly about it. Clinton’s been gone for 8 years and you’d think he and Marc Rich were spotted the other night outside a nightclub blowing a fattie in the back seat of a limo.