As Bush leaves, so does pardon shot for Roger Clemens

[cboy4]

BY MICHAEL O'KEEFFE
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Wednesday, January 21st 2009, 12:01 PM

Roger Clemens has no ace in the hole in George Bush, who leaves office without granting pitcher pardon.

There was no last-minute pardon for Roger Clemens before President Bush left the White House Tuesday, and the federal grand jury that has been examining evidence that the former Yankee star committed perjury will continue its work.

Brian McNamee's attorney Richard Emery raised the possibility of a Bush pardon after Clemens testified at the Feb. 13, 2008, congressional hearing on the Mitchell Report.

"We're glad neither Clemens nor Bush stooped to conquer," Emery said. "We hope by raising the issue we inoculated it and helped avoid it."

Emery said he raised the pardon issue because Republican members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform seemed eager to protect Clemens and attack McNamee during last year's hearing.

Clemens also brought up his friendship with former President George H.W. Bush during the hearing. Clemens testified that he was never contacted by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell or his investigators, but Bush Sr. tracked him down on a duck hunt to wish him well after the release of the explosive report on steroids and baseball.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009...

[madinmaryland]

1. Barry Bonds didn't get one either.

[cboy4]

2. I'm just going to guess, but I doubt Barry Bonds is a big

George W Bush fan, and vice versa.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Why would you say that?

bush is an expert on baseball and choosing talent and bonds is good at not doing the right thing. A perfect match. I'm surprised bonds didn't get a job in the bush administration. Secretary of Big Heads??

[cboy4]

6. Bush is an expert on baseball?

Yea, those Rangers teams of his were tremendous.

[BOSSHOG]

9. And

you are an expert on ethical behavior by sports figures. Is sarcasm lost on you or are you just sharing some of that UT edumucation??

[cboy4]

10. I intentionally misinterpret sarcasm if it allows me an

opportunity to lash out at Barry haters.

[BOSSHOG]

11. I feel so lashed

Too bad he won't go down as one of the Greatest baseball players ever like Mike Schmidt.

[cboy4]

12. Of course he will. He's hit more homers than any other

player in baseball.

And I'm not talking about Mike Schmidt, who doesn't even rank among the top 10, even though you've crowned him the greatest.

[BOSSHOG]

14. Mike's head is wear the crown should be

for the greatest home run hitter ever. Don't talk to me of statistics and numbers, talk to me of greatness. Now if you are talking greatest steroid user who happens to need them to help him hit homeruns why of course, Mike's not in the running.

[madinmaryland]

13. Greatest baseball player?? Certainly you must be referring to Pete Rose.

No steroids with old Pete!

[BOSSHOG]

15. I agree

that Pete, like Mike, is ONE of the greatest baseball players ever.

[cboy4]

16. Well we don't know that. But I agree he is one of the greatest

players and definitely deserves to be in the hall.

[madinmaryland]

17. He does deserve to be in the Hall for his playing years.

Not the years he spent playing the scores as a manager.

[Condem]

3. Was there talk of one, cboy?

I missed that.

[cboy4]

5. Yea, there's been talk .. Clemens is a huge Bushie

McNamee's lawyer: Bush would pardon Clemens

By A.J. Perez, USA TODAY

Roger Clemens could receive a pardon from President Bush if the seven-time Cy Young Award winner is ever pursued for lying to federal officials, a lawyer for Clemens' accuser said Thursday.

Clemens is a close friend of the first President Bush, even building a horseshoe pit at his Texas home at the suggestion of the former president.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2008-02-14-clem...

Roger Clemens Will Receive Presidential Pardon Due to His Republican Connections

The strange spectacle of Republican members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform praising Roger Clemens and attacking his former trainer Brian McNamee became clearer today, when one of the members of the McNamee's legal team, Richard D. Emery of Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Ab
adyhttp://www.ecbalaw.com/attorneys/emery.html, predicted that Clemens is lobbying for a pardon from President Bush George W. Bush. Clemens had lobbied the members of the Committee before the Wednesday hearing, meeting with the Congressmen and their staffs. His lobbying efforts included signing autographs for Congressional staffers.

Most of the Democrats on the Committee, including Chairman Henry Waxman (D-California), were harder on Roger Clemens than were their brethren from the other side of the aisle. Many of the Republicans praised Clemens as a hero, and their logic seemed to be that as a hero, Clemens had to be believed, whereas the unsavory Brian McNamee, as a chronic liar, not only couldn't be trusted but was actually lying under oath at the hearing.

Brian McNamee was severely criticicized by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), Rep. Dan Burton ( R-Indiana), Virginia Foxx (R-North Carolina), and Christopher Shays (R-Connecticut), who called McNamee a "drug dealer." Burton excoriated McNamee as a pathological liar, accusing him of telling "lie after lie after lie after lie." Foxx, after denouncing the hearing, produced photographic evidence of Roger Clemens throughout his career, making the point that he had not changed physically, over time, so couldn't have been on the juice.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/603347/roger_c...

[Condem]

7. Such a shame.

I feel so bad for that stand up fellow. One honest Texan.

[Forkboy]

8. That's a shame.

[TZ]

19. you know

this thread makes a strong case for your suggestion of the regulars changing their DU names to fuckstick#1,2,3....etc..

[Forkboy]

21. I'll telling you, it's gold.

[madinmaryland]

22. Which one are you, Snyder??

[TZ]

24. not sure

but I'll let you and cboy argue out who is number one..

[Jo March]

18. Don't you have to be convicted to be pardoned?

Has he been convicted of anything yet? ?

[thesquanderer]

31. Nope

You don't have to be convicted to be eligible for a pardon... or at least that was the thinking when Ford pardoned Nixon.

[madinmaryland]

20. I see Eddie DeBartolo didn't get a pardon also!

[cboy4]

23. Roger Clemens didn't win me five super bowls.

Eddie? YUP! Sure did.

[madinmaryland]

25. Hmm. I'm sure all those mob connections had a lot to do with that!

[cboy4]

26. Whatever works!

[madinmaryland]

27. Win at all costs?

[cboy4]

28. I agree having Montana, Young and Rice on the same team

should been against the law.

[madinmaryland]

29. Hmm. A little mob help to make it happen.

[cboy4]

30. No, I'm pretty sure we got them fair and square

But nice try Alberto.