Come on, give me a break. George W. gave more pardons than Obama has. The only pardon he gave last year was to the White House Thanksgiving turkey! The use or lack of use of the pardon power tells a lot about a president. And Obama's lack of using it tells us what kind of man he is. He has given out less pardons than any recent president.
He is so devoid of emotions or lack of outrage towards injustice that it is astounding. For example, Jack Johnson, the 1st black Heavyweight champ was sentenced to fed prison for violation of the Mann Act, he basically took a white woman across state lines and he was sent to prison for it. Now everyone has been on board with giving Johnson a pardon, dems and repubs. John Mccain has been a persistent advocate for giving Johnson a posthumous pardon. But guess what, the 1st black Attorney General and the 1st black President have refused to correct this injustice. At 1st they would refuse to answer questions as to why not give the man a a much deserved pardon, until finally they gave an answer. And the answer was he's dead and we think we should give our time and pardon those who are still living. What a sad statement especially when Obama rarely pardon's anyone except those with minor crimes like the ones listed today.
Like I said before this tells us a lot about the kind of man Obama is. I believe he has no feelings or ability to forgive those who may deserve a pardon because it might make him look soft on crime or it might make him look like he is favoring black people. And to give him praise for the pardons he did today when he is so undeserving of such praise just makes me ill.
We need to stop taking sides, we think just because the republicans are our enemy, so to speak, we must always take sides with Obama and the dems. I believe you only follow a certain politician or political party when they have the same beliefs as you do. Once that political party or politician abandons those beliefs we should abandon them. It is obvious that since the 1990's the dems and Obama (followed suit) have abandoned democratic ideals. They are only dems in name only. When a Democratic President (for 2 terms) puts in place a republican to head the Defense dept and when a Democratic President replaces and constantly mentions and praises Ronald Reagan in his speeches instead of LBJ and Roosevelt then its time to abandon him and start calling him out for who he really is.
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