>>>>I agree. Bush should have waited until the final day of his presidency and pardoned 140 criminals like President Clinton did.
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>>>That's not entirely accurate. You forgot to mention the FACT that some of those he pardoned contributed over 1 million bucks to his library. Also, the Clinton's relatives also made a few sheckles from some that were pardoned, as I recall. He should have been deported when he left office, and her too!
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>>You should try getting your "facts" somewhere other than conservative talk radio. It's true that Marc Rich's wife raised money for the Clinton library. But AFAIK none of the contributors were pardoned or even criminals.
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>>PS -- it's "shekels."
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>Shekels, smekels, it's all the same. As for the pardons, here's the result of a quick google search:
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>Everybody knows about Marc Rich, the billionaire fugitive, who never served a day in jail and currently lives "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" in Switzerland. On the FBI's most wanted list, he was the largest tax evader in U.S. history and sold out America by selling oil to the Iranians, while they held our hostages captive. Why the pardon? Could it be because ex-wife Denise gave millions in contributions to the Democratic National Committee, Hillary's Senate campaign, Bill's Presidential Library and the Clintons' furniture spree?
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>Then there was Mel Reynolds -- ex-congressman and child molester extraordinaire. Likening a prospective threesome with an underage Catholic schoolgirl to hitting the Lotto, he now works for Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH advising kids. Why did Clinton pardon Reynolds? Because the Rev. Jesse asked him to.
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>Carlos Vignali -- a drug kingpin and one of the largest cocaine dealers in U.S. history -- is the latest newsworthy Clinton pardonee. Yesterday's Los Angeles Times detailed Vignali's career as "the central player in a cocaine ring that stretched from California to Minnesota," delivering more than 800 pounds of cocaine. Why did Clinton pardon Vignali, who served only six years of a 15-year sentence for convictions on three counts of federal narcotics violations? Maybe because his father, rich Los Angeles entrepreneur Horacio Vignali, a la Denise Rich, donated over $160,000 to mostly Democrat politicians who wrote to Clinton and then-Attorney General Janet Reno, asking for clemency for Vignali.
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>Yeah, Willie's clean as the peed on snow!


I never said he was "clean." I have said repeatedly in this thread that his pardon of Marc Rich was an abomination. But that isn't the subject, no matter how often some try to change it. The subject is President Bush's pardon of Scooter Libby. What is your opinion about that? Would you like to be the first to defend it?

BTW, it would be more impressive if you referenced the web site(s) where you got your "evidence." Grabbing a few statements of opinion (with an obvious POV) off the internet, without attribution, doesn't prove much.