Bush pardons 4, bringing total to 31

[knitter4democracy]

Check this one out:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/21/presidential.pardons.ap/index.html

What are these about? None of these people served any jail time, and they all were embezzelers of some sort. Are these what get to his desk? Only white collar crime from a long time ago with no jail time served? ?????

[Ilsa]

1. White collar crime= big political donations from

well-to-do family I bet, that helped the perps get good jobs that provided the opportunity to control flow of funds and embezzle.

[T Bone]

2. Watch for them to be running BushCo's SocSecurity Scam soon

if he gets that scheme to bilk us of our Social Security through the Congress.

I am glad someone is watching his pardons like a hawk. I am surprised it is CNN, but it looks like a candidate for a database in the DemoPedia. Track these people, &all his other pardons, and watch for them and their families and businesses to be rewarded with various and sundry 'privatization' schemes and scams. I bet.

[Thor_MN]

3. These confused me also when they were announced several days ago

What do these people need pardons for? Is this to clean up their records so they can, say, run for Governor of Connecticut. Seriously, it's not like they are sitting in prison for crimes they didn't commit or for no reason in particular.

[proud patriot]

4. I'm sure this scandal will be all over the liberal media

:eyes:

[Moderator]

5. locking

this isn't Late Breaking News (see the 12 hour rule) and it was discussed some days ago.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1090731