Re: Obama Grants Pardons to 9 Small-Scale Offenders

So, pardoning convicted "whoevers" is a political game of one-upmanship rather than righting wrongs or being magnanimous or whatever?

On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Bruce Geerdes wrote:

> Who wants to bet that they got this out the door only because they
> didn't want to be perceived as worse than Bush?
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/us/politics/04pardon.html
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> It was the first time he exercised his clemency powers, narrowly
> avoiding surpassing President George W. Bush’s record for the longest
> wait for a presidential pardon in American history.
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