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Pardon-gate in 5, 4, 3, 2, …
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Seriously. It’s going to take exactly zero seconds for the GOP/Teatrolls and fuckers like Kobach to cite the fact that most of these people are black or minorities (I’m guessing…out on a pretty safe limb, I think) as evidence of Obama’s inequitable and unfair white persecution enforcement regime. Nevermind that the enforcement that led to these convictions was no doubt inequitable and unfair and targeted at black and minority communities in the first place, as with all enforcement, leading to grossly unrepresentative sampling in the prison system…no no no…this is all part fo the persecution of the white man unless half of the commutations were white people.
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He just gave Fox News two weeks of programming material. 
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Obama just got hisself 22 new votes!
Oh wait…
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The GOP can pound sand. It is a GOP article of faith that everything President Obama does is wrong, and no explanation why is needed. Soft on crime? Favoring Blacks? Willie Horton? Benghazi? Avalanche of all of the above?
Jealous Envious Bush could use a shiny object to draw attention away from his goof up du jour. Ha.
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Pardon-gate? Don’t think so:
President Obama has granted clemency at a lower rate than any modern president.
Under Reagan and Clinton, applicants for commutations had a 1 in 100 chance of success. Under George W. Bush, that fell to a little less than 1 in 1,000. Under Obama, an applicant’s chance is slightly less than 1 in 5,000.
Good for him! As a country, we need a serious discussion on why we jail so many of our citizens. Far in excess of any other country in the world. Prisons, in my opinion, need to focus much more on the rehabilitation aspect of their mission, unless we justwant a revolving door.
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Good.
Good for him! Drug addiction is not a crime, it is a medical condition!
Have I mentioned lately how much I’m loving second-term “No Fucks Left to Give” President Obama? Now for some pardons, an Iran deal, and…can’t wait to find out what’s next!
Jeb advocated for a pardon that was granted by his dad for Cuban exile terrorists who were responsible for the 1976 bombing of a Air Cubana airline killing 70 odd people including the Cuban fencing team. It was the worst airline related terror attack pre-9/11.