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>>This is about the only part with which I'm not sure I entirely agree:
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>>But Hillary Clinton will have a hard time convincing most voters that her brother-in-law would have gotten a pardon in 2001 had his name been Smith.
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>>Clinton pardoned half the inmate population of the U.S. on that last day. Drug dealers, killers, all kinds of low-lifes. I'm sure that if her brother had been named 'Smith', he still would have had a 50-50 chance of being pardoned.
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>Especially since I'm sure somebody named "Smith" was on a list of big donors and hey, why take a chance <bg>

In all fairness, looking at the list of people he pardoned, I don't think most of them were large donors. I think it had more to do with a feeling of brotherhood. Or, looking at it more closely, he may have chosen them by the blindfold dart throw method.