Obama pardon-cautious, among slowest

This is not fair at all! How dare we accuse Obama of being very slow in processing pardons.

What about the other major campaign promises like - ending the war, employment, banking resolutions, housing crisis, improve schools, hire teachers, etc. and all the other 50 promises. We should not be quick to pick on Obama on these slow promises when so many are still pending.

I'm glad Obama is being cautious and using reason to decide pardons - now, let's get started on those war crimes prosecutions of Bush Jr, The Dick Cheney and Rove etc.

ending the war, employment, banking resolutions, housing crisis, improve schools, hire teachers, etc. and all the other 50 promises. We should not be quick to pick on Obama on these slow promises when so many are still pending.

Posted by: Fulano De Tal | November 2, 2009 2:11 PM
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Teresa,
Unfortunatly for you Wingnut cretins, after only 10 months, no one is blaming all of those Bush/Cheney messes on Obama. Not even Faux News.
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http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/10/bush_blamed_for_economy_fox_su_1.html
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Why is this news? Everyone knows Obama can't make a decision on anything. Too bad he doesn't have a "present" button sitting on his desk in the oval office.

Can't we build Rome in a day?????

There should hardly ever be a presidential pardon. Everyone has their day in court, that is the time for justice to be determined.

Hopefully President Obama will render no more than couple of pardons each year while in office.

President Clinton was the worst offender of granting pardons to those who certainly did not deserve them.

JolietJay,
Yeah, can't Obama just go ahead and make decisions with his gut, like Bush did?!?!
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http://www.crisispapers.org/essays/bush-gut.htm
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There's a bunch of people sitting on death row right now. I'll bet money he doesn't commute a single death sentence.

Barry isn't careful about anything else that he does, why the concern now. We just wait to see what he does to, I mean for, us.

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Posted by: John W. | November 2, 2009 3:47 PM
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Bircher Boy,
So does this mean we can put you on record as being anti death penalty?

Seems obama is too busy attending fundraisers to worry about pretending to be a leader. Strike while the iron is hot. He better get the money while he can, for his star is burning out and he's certainly a one termer.

George HW Bush and Gerald Ford were the worst when it came to presidential pardons.

Ronny Raygun's Iran/Contra minions should never have been pardoned, and Nixon?.....that one speaks for itsself.

for his star is burning out and he's certainly a one termer.

Posted by: worsethanbefore | November 2, 2009 4:07 PM
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Yeah Teresa, you wish.

Unfortunately, out here in the real world, no one with half a brain gives a damn what you goober Repug Teabaggers think. Afterall, you supported Bushco. Nuff' said....

“Bircher Boy,
So does this mean we can put you on record as being anti death penalty?”
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Posted by: huh? | November 2, 2009 4:06 PM
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Listen up, JohnEEE-boy (you moron):
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For the last time, I am not a Bircher. I can only surmise that you can’t get that because you are blind and have a solid rock for a head on your shoulders.
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As for my position on the death penalty, you have to pay attention to what follows because it is tricky.
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1. I am opposed to the death penalty AS IT IS CURRENTLY USED because the process of guilt determination in capital trials is so inaccurate that there is too much of a chance of convicting an innocent person for a capital crime. Sending the demonstrably innocent to the gallows has been a pastime for the government way too long. I am also against the death penalty as it is currently used because, despite the changes in the law over the last 35 or so years, the criteria for inflicting the death penalty on even an indisputably guilty person in a given case is still too arbitrary and capricious; and too many impermissible factors (like the victim’s or the defendant’s race) too often play a part in a jury’s determination of whether a person lives or dies. Unless and until these factors change, and the system becomes substantially more accurate in determining guilt and moral blame, I will remain opposed to the death penalty.
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2. However, if the truth finding function in capital cases were to become vastly more accurate, and if people and society were less hateful, resentful and angry toward those with different skin colors, different languages, or different customs, then I might not be so hostile toward the idea of the death penalty. However, unlike the utopians in the progressive movement, I have no illusions that the system or people are going to become any better than they already are. In which case, it is doubtful that I am going to change my position OPPOSING the death penalty any time soon.
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And - BTW - Obama doesn’t oppose the death penalty. He may have some qualms about the accuracy of death verdicts, but he has never been willing to stand against the entire death penalty process as it is. That is why I don’t believe he is going to raise a finger to commute a single death sentence.

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Posted by: John W. | November 2, 2009 4:49 PM
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ZZzzzzz....yawn, wake me up when you're finished bloviating, Bircher Boy.

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Posted by: huh? | November 2, 2009 5:11 PM
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Listen up, JohnEEEE-boy, you freakin’ moron. I’m still not a Bircher. And furthermore, if you can’t stand the idea of getting an answer you don’t like then don’t ask the question. I answered YOUR question in a way that prevented a thousand follow-up idiotic questions about my position. I know the way you work.
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And I'll still wager good money that your Obamessiah won't lift a finger to commute a single death sentence.

"A lot of things have moved pretty quickly in the Obama administration."
Yeah, uh, what has Mr Fast and Furious specifically done fast? (The salsa doesn't count, and I'm sure it doesn't rhyme with Ann or Dare or begin with the first letters of Guacamole, and end with US prison in Cuba.) Just because Gibbs keeps the doughnuts and coffee on high rotation, it doesn't mean this administration is moving fast, and if it is then they might want to drop the "carefully deliberating" act. Can't have it both ways. Sloth is the speed they like to work at, we get it.

BO is probably waiting for the payola for the pardons. He is from Chicago after all.

Obama is saving his pardons for Bill the bomber Ayers, King Richard Daley, Tony Rezko, and Valerie Jarrett. Yes Valerie Jarrett, because of how she robbed her own people of low-income housing when she was with Habitat for Humanity.

Obama doesn't need pardons. All the tax cheats that should be in jail are already on his staff.

Tempest in a teapot! Who really thinks prespards are a significant presidential duty? Who cares how many?

Tempest in a teapot! Who really thinks prespards are a significant presidential duty? Who cares how many?

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Posted by: Ernst | November 2, 2009 9:53 PM
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Are you out of your mind? Of course the power to pardon is an important function of the president. The president, according to Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, is the only person in the federal government who can pardon a person for crimes against the United States. Neither Congress nor the courts have that power. Without the power to check an overzealous Congress and judiciary, the criminal justice system might become intolerably harsh. That power to pardon also provides a means for ending domestic rebellions before they become warm and bloody.
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I take it then that you must like the death penalty, Ernst. There are more than 50 people awaiting execution as the result of death sentences from federal judges. I suppose it doesn’t matter if Obama skips considering their sentences. I suppose it doesn’t matter if Obama entirely forgets to look at the results of a number of other cases in which the federal courts have handed down draconian sentences. We all know he has more important stuff to do, right? I mean, God forbid that we should get in the way of his golf or basketball schedules, or keep him from campaigning for other politicians.

John W: You seem to like to make assumptions about others when you don't know what you are talking about. Try checking the facts next time.