Only a president clinically incapable of understanding that mistakes have consequences could take the action he did today.That's it in a nutshell. This is just par for the course from a President who has never had to pay for a mistake in his entire life. The rule of law, in his little minds eye, doesn't apply to him or his vice-president (whose hands are all over this, I'm sure).
Another reaction...this one from Sen. Barack Obama (Democrat-IL):
This decision to commute the sentence of a man who compromised our national security cements the legacy of an Administration characterized by a politics of cynicism and division, one that has consistently placed itself and its ideology above the law. This is exactly the kind of politics we must change so we can begin restoring the American people’s faith in a government that puts the country’s progress ahead of the bitter partisanship of recent years.Something tells me that this very well may have cemented a Democratic victory in the presidential election next year.
Then again, President Gerald Ford came thisclose to winning a full term after pardoning Richard Nixon. Then again, the partisan divide in presidential politcs wasn't as wide then as it is now.
