Wait, so you guys (irate and powerclown) actually believe that this isn't a simple act of favor repayment? You think that the president, with all his judicial experience, simply weighed the facts of the matter and correctly concluded that the sentence handed down by a judge for crimes involving the obstruction of a federal investigation was too harsh? And you think you have any sort of business taking some sort of intellectual high ground here?
I personally don't care much about whatever bullshit the president is spreading about why he commuted his friend. I also think that taking the president's word at face value is a sign of naivete. Presidents hook-up people to whom they owe favors; it's what they do. If you want to pretend that they don't so you can convince yourself that liberals are whiny then by all means. It's not like you didn't already think liberals were whiny in the first place.
It is nice to see a few "conservatives" back in the mix now that there's something that could conceivably be spun as good news for a "conservative". You folks all seemed to have disappeared following the most recent election. Can you guys admit that iraq was completely mishandled -perhaps even a horrible mistake- yet?
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