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Originally Posted by reconmike
In this country with its laws there is something called precedence, and the act of pardon or commutation are legal acts, so to see what legally can be done one can look to the past to see if it has been done. And if your going to rate how atrocious the Libby sentence commutation was, it is only fitting to judge it according to what other presidents have done.
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You are wrong. Precedence does not always make things right. There is precedence for owning slaves in this country. There is precedence for being able to shoot people down in the streets. Just because it has happened in the past doesn't make it right. Clinton's pardon was wrong and so is Bush's. The reason people are so much more upset is the appearance and likely existence of an overwhelming conspiracy to circumvent the constitution by this administration. There are no longer checks and balances. The DOJ has been turned into an attack dog for the white house. The last 2 supreme court justices were appointed as yes men for the neo-con movement. The executive branch is refusing to acknowledge any of the power of congress and is preventing any investigations into its actions. This country is teetering on the edge of destruction. And all you and many others can say is "well Clinton". Stop it!
I love America, I think the constitution was very well designed but in our quest for power we have begun destroying the very thing that gives us our freedoms every day. At some point in time our brethren from across the isle became our worst enemy and now we spend more time battling with each other than any of our real enemies. Bush said he was a uniter and not a divider but he has fractured this country more than I have ever known.
Do you want this trend to continue? Do you really want the dems to polarize the DOJ when they are in power? To stack the system so that they will stay in power? If we continue setting "precedence" for skirting the constitution and the checks and balances it creates then that is what we will be left with and America will no longer be the land of the free.