My mistake. The sentence was commuted not pardoned.

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My mistake. The sentence was commuted not pardoned.

REB — 7/3/2007 4:57:40 PM (archived)

I donâ€™t like it. The President should not overturn the juryâ€™s decision. No one is above the law. Libbyâ€™s conviction was decided through our legal system. Flawed as our legal system is, it is all we got and the judgment should stick. All presidents should respect the decisions of the legal system.

And I still donâ€™t like presidential pardons.

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Scooter Scott Free - ARRELL - 7/2/2007 10:42:14 PM
- Paris Hilton spent more time in jail than Scooter Libby - What a farce - 7/4/2007 5:52:38 PM
  - Bush and Cheney Should Resign - Keith Olbermann - 7/4/2007 6:15:38 PM
    - Edward R. Murrow reborn - azstrummer - 7/5/2007 8:06:34 PM
      - Murrow? Good Lord. A rehashed Howard Beale at best. - TB - 7/5/2007 9:04:28 PM
        
        Emotion and Reason - Jody - 7/7/2007 6:06:20 PM
        
        "Voice of Reason" - TB - 7/7/2007 10:18:02 PM
        
        Oh no TB, know this:...Your point most assuredly did not elude me. - Jody - 7/7/2007 11:10:10 PM
        
        I guess just like that! (n/t) - Jody - 7/7/2007 6:07:35 PM
        
        Come on Tom...Think how fun he will be to watch when Hillary is President! - TAFKASE - 7/6/2007 3:37:36 PM
        
        re: Come on Tom...Think how fun he will be to watch when Hillary is President! - azstrummer - 7/7/2007 12:32:57 AM
        
        Not surprised - azstrummer - 7/5/2007 10:14:47 PM
        
        A small aside... - TB - 7/5/2007 11:04:14 PM
        
        Small asides are all you have - azstrummer - 7/6/2007 12:44:08 AM
        
        Art, I'm not the one being compared to Edward R. Murrow, am I? - TB - 7/6/2007 1:08:35 AM
        
        re: Not surprised - TB - 7/5/2007 10:53:59 PM
        
        You're comparing Olbermann with Ann Coulter? - azstrummer - 7/6/2007 12:23:04 AM
        
        Why, yes! - TB - 7/6/2007 12:43:31 AM
        
        " I'm well-aware that a lot of my opposition is running on emotion and not reason. " - Lindy - 7/5/2007 10:12:13 PM
        
        Tom, I agree with Lindy - ARRELL - 7/5/2007 10:49:21 PM
        
        Tom, I agree with Lindy - ARRELL - 7/5/2007 10:49:16 PM
        
        "Mindless drone" - TB - 7/5/2007 10:59:51 PM
        
        So was it emotion or reason that broke our bonds with the British? - azstrummer - 7/6/2007 1:01:18 AM
        
        re: emotion or reason - TB - 7/6/2007 3:37:45 AM
        
        P.S. if Goldwater were in politics now, Olbermann would be ripping him up. (n/t) - TB - 7/5/2007 9:09:46 PM
- They should do away with presidential pardons. - REB - 7/3/2007 3:19:35 PM
  - My mistake. The sentence was commuted not pardoned. - REB - 7/3/2007 4:57:40 PM
- Like everything else, Bush only went in half way committed. - TAFKASE - 7/3/2007 2:00:28 PM
- MY GOD!!~ WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET THROUGH TO YOU PEOPLE!? - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 9:07:51 AM
  - Preferably something other than shrieking hysterics. - TB - 7/3/2007 6:39:30 PM
- Or maybe they are just feeling guilty that he was a patsy, for those higher up that were really guilty.... - ARRELL - 7/2/2007 11:33:00 PM
- re: Scooter Scott Free - TB - 7/2/2007 11:25:41 PM
  - Indeed Republican morality is amazing..... - Publius - 7/4/2007 2:06:29 AM
    - Okay, let's nail down the morality issue. - TB - 7/4/2007 5:01:04 AM
      - Errrr, it's kinda embarrassing Tom...... - Publius - 7/6/2007 1:27:43 AM
        
        re: Errrr - TB - 7/6/2007 3:58:38 AM
      - Psst Tom - Lindy - 7/4/2007 4:24:05 PM
        
        re: Psst - TB - 7/4/2007 4:47:39 PM
        
        Here's a scoop for you Tom - azstrummer - 7/7/2007 12:31:55 AM
  - re: Scooter Scott Free - Yeti - 7/3/2007 12:36:48 AM
    - Scooter and Clinton - Buck Galaxy - 7/3/2007 4:17:53 AM
      - Plame was no more a "spy" than I am. - TB - 7/3/2007 5:28:26 AM
        
        What a crock - azstrummer - 7/4/2007 5:04:36 AM
        
        Like I said - Buck Galaxy - 7/3/2007 5:45:05 AM
        
        And you? No real knowledge of the case (n/t) - TB - 7/3/2007 5:50:02 AM
        
        From the man who still has never stated the SPECIFIC charges that Clinton was impeached for. - Buck Galaxy - 7/3/2007 6:15:12 AM
        
        Buck.... - azstrummer - 7/4/2007 5:12:12 AM
        
        re: Specific charges - TB - 7/3/2007 6:28:37 AM
        
        Apples and Oranges - Lindy - 7/5/2007 6:08:04 PM
        
        re: Apples and Oranges - TB - 7/6/2007 4:34:38 AM
        
        "Armitage leaked the name. Try to keep that in mind." - Tony - 7/7/2007 11:41:57 AM
        
        Googling - TB - 7/7/2007 5:54:59 PM
        
        re: "Armitage leaked the name. Try to keep that in mind." - Lindy - 7/7/2007 3:19:50 PM
        
        "Education is a thankless task around here." - Lindy - 7/6/2007 4:58:22 AM
        
        See what I mean? - TB - 7/6/2007 5:26:04 AM
        
        Dry facts - Lindy - 7/6/2007 2:09:43 PM
        
        re: Dry facts - TB - 7/6/2007 6:24:06 PM
        
        Thank you for proving my point - Buck Galaxy - 7/3/2007 7:44:09 AM
        
        ps, don't "disappear" on this one. Don't dodge the questions. Answer them IF you can. (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 7/3/2007 7:53:25 AM
        
        You're not a lawyer - TB - 7/3/2007 11:09:57 PM
        
        Tom B the "House Manager" - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2007 2:04:10 AM
        
        Okay, now you're just flailing. - TB - 7/4/2007 4:07:36 AM
        
        My point is this: - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2007 6:48:01 AM
        
        "Learn anything today?" - TB - 7/4/2007 4:49:04 PM
        
        "YOU have to settle for an amoral bum .........." - Lindy - 7/6/2007 5:02:43 AM
        
        Hillary and her "husband" are running in 2008. Bush isn't. - TB - 7/6/2007 5:29:36 AM
        
        re: Hillary and her "husband" are running in 2008. - Lindy - 7/6/2007 4:09:28 PM
        
        re: "Learn anything today?" - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2007 6:44:42 PM
        
        Depends on what the meaning of "was" was..... Ahhh... Irony. (n/t) - Yeti - 7/3/2007 5:42:14 AM
    - "Just like Clinton?" - TB - 7/3/2007 1:18:52 AM
      - A lot of 'Mommy They Did It Too', and nothing addressing the points at hand. Good Job... Mr Jello meet mr tree (n/t) - Yeti - 7/3/2007 3:19:59 AM
      - "And I remember Clinton's own pardon list, which had more than a few interesting characters in it, including one who went to jail for not testifying against him." - R.L. - 7/3/2007 1:22:59 AM
        
        And incidentally... - TB - 7/3/2007 2:23:10 AM
        
        "You say you think Sandy Berger should be in jail? I don't recall your indignation here when he got off" - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 8:06:23 AM
        
        "Evil?" - TB - 7/3/2007 1:30:36 AM
        
        Cripes, sit down and blow some cool air in your face. - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 1:54:53 AM
  - Typical Tom when faced with a moral dillema - ARRELL - 7/2/2007 11:56:36 PM
    - TB Is avoiding this post, above all others- Gee I wonder why.... (n/t) - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 7:53:44 AM
      - For starters... - TB - 7/4/2007 4:48:54 AM
    - Do you support this move? And Why- Do find it reasonable? - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 1:12:54 AM
      - Oh and before you ask- - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 1:17:19 AM
    - :) Oh and I do know what you will try next... - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 12:01:18 AM
      - The problem for you and your ilk is that we are dealing with THIS point in history (n/t) - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 12:04:22 AM
        
        Well, I was right about the foam, anyway. (n/t) - TB - 7/3/2007 12:55:43 AM
        
        Let us all note Tom avoided the 'Typical Tom' post (n/t) - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 1:09:31 AM
        
        No, TB, You really were wrong in EVERYTHING in this thread - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 1:04:30 AM
        
        Let me make this clear-- - TB - 7/3/2007 1:28:09 AM
        
        re: Let me make this clear-- - Yeti - 7/3/2007 3:26:37 AM
        
        Tom must be getting a little wrinkled. - RobVG - 7/3/2007 4:20:05 AM
        
        Oh! I can be cute too: Sing it with me- 'We didn't start the fire...' - Yeti - 7/3/2007 4:38:35 AM
        
        Ah, rare form tonight. - RobVG - 7/3/2007 5:00:51 AM
        
        Get one thing straight. Don't count me as a Bush supporter. - Yeti - 7/3/2007 6:02:52 AM
        
        Pullease... - RobVG - 7/3/2007 3:16:39 PM
        
        re: Pullease... - Yeti - 7/3/2007 4:11:45 PM
        
        "...you never questioned" - RobVG - 7/4/2007 4:01:07 PM
        
        re: "Your a little boy with a big stick and a small piñata" - Yeti - 7/4/2007 9:26:34 PM
        
        Oh the horror, an error in grammar. - RobVG - 7/5/2007 4:03:34 AM
        
        re: Oh the horror, an error in grammar. - Yeti - 7/5/2007 6:24:37 AM
        
        Foam gets any deeper, we'll need a boat. - TB - 7/3/2007 6:14:04 AM
        
        I love it. You have nothing. Your hypocrisy is manifest, so you revert to 'maggots flying' and 'foam spitting' and whatever - Yeti - 7/3/2007 6:24:08 AM
        
        Back so soon? (n/t) - Nyeti - 7/3/2007 6:05:17 AM
        
        Just to rile up anonymous cowards who wn't post their handle. - Yeti - 7/3/2007 6:11:15 AM
        
        24 hours? You promise? (n/t) - Nyeti - 7/3/2007 9:30:59 AM
        
        Why don't you use your real handle- Last I heard, un attributed posts like yours were against HZ regs. (n/t) - Yeti - 7/3/2007 3:09:23 PM
        
        I agree - TB - 7/3/2007 11:14:03 PM
        
        You watch O'Reilly?? - TB - 7/3/2007 6:16:04 AM
        
        Yeah- It gives me an exectutive summary of what TB@hz.com will be writing within 24 hours - Yeti - 7/3/2007 6:28:13 AM
        
        re: Let me make this clear-- - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 1:50:23 AM
        
        "victims rights?" What victim? The court? (n/t) - TB - 7/3/2007 2:01:26 AM
        
        I am so sorry, Tom.... I thought you could be rational.... - ARRELL - 7/3/2007 2:14:34 AM
        
        You must be kidding. - Eri - 7/3/2007 3:06:58 AM
  - You were one of the ones I predicted would defend this.... - ARRELL - 7/2/2007 11:35:18 PM
- I has an aproval raiting arond 30%, Thus I have a mansdate- and I plans to take avantege uv it!!! (n/t) - Bush - 7/2/2007 11:11:50 PM
- Makes no sense - Yeti - 7/2/2007 10:53:51 PM

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