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From: bentway	7/3/2007 1:13:37 PM
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When he was running for president, George W Bush loved to contrast his law-abiding morality with that of President Clinton, who was charged with perjury and acquitted. For Mr Bush, the candidate, "politics, after a time of tarnished ideals, can be higher and better". Not so for Mr Bush, the president. Judging from his decision yesterday to commute the 30-month sentence of I Lewis Libby Jr - who was charged with perjury and convicted - untarnished ideals are less of a priority than protecting the secrets of his inner circle and mollifying the tiny slice of right-wing Americans left in his political base... Mr Bush's assertion that he respected the verdict but considered the sentence excessive only underscored the way this president is tough on crime when it's committed by common folk... Presidents have the power to grant clemency and pardons. But in this case, Mr Bush did not sound like a leader making tough decisions about justice. He sounded like a man worried about what a former loyalist might say when actually staring into a prison cell. news.bbc.co.uk

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