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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: combjelly who wrote (438985)12/7/2008 3:05:53 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1574122
 
There is still plenty of time. He has a lot of pardon requests before him and he is pardoning at a high rate. Depending on how many he pardons, he could very well beat Clinton's record.

More important than the sheer numbers of pardons issued is the character of the ones that are.

Bush's pardons have been completed with the proper process and paperwork, and of people who deserved them, and without being paid for them.

Many of Clinton's pardons were deficient of the process in some way, either money changing hands, improper paperwork, or pardons of people who don't meet the criteria which normally have been applied. The Marc Rich was probably the most notorious pardon in history other than that of Nixon, because it was simply a matter of a filthy rich bastard paying off the president for a pardon.
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