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Mike Huckabee Apologizes for Releasing Cop Killer Maurice Clemmons (video)
Fox News ^ | Nov. 30, 2009

Posted on 11/30/2009 6:18:03 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Mike Huckabee was on The O'Reilly Factor tonight and apologized for releasing cop killer Maurice Clemmons from prison as governor in Arkansas.

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1 posted on 11/30/2009 6:18:03 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
That was an apology!!!???

Sounded more like an excuse to me.

2 posted on 11/30/2009 6:21:36 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Ultimately, every time a Governor or President pardons a criminal, they’re taking a gamble the guy won’t go sour. Parole boards too. And when they gamble wrong, others take the brunt of the pain. I’d like to have Huckabee’s adviser(s) who said this guy was OK to be on the tube too, apologizing to the families of the 4 slain.


3 posted on 11/30/2009 6:22:51 PM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hucks finished..he needs to go back to cooking squirrel in a popcorn popper.


4 posted on 11/30/2009 6:26:06 PM PST by DeusExMachina05 (I will not go into Dhimmitude quietly.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“If I could have known nine years ago this guy was capable of something of this magnitude, obviously I would have never granted the commutation.”

Let’s see, didn’t you commute his 60 year term FOR SEVEN FELONY CHARGES? Didn’t you let a rapist/murderer out, as well?

The only prudent thing is to NOT LET VIOLENT PEOPLE GO EARLY. So, you had to have had a really strong reason for making society pay this way, right, Mr. Huckster?

Sadly, I know he had no reason outside of wanting to look kind and compassionate at everyone elses’ expense.

Nice work, you freaking idiot, Rev. Huckster!

5 posted on 11/30/2009 6:26:45 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I hope this ends the Huck 2012 chatter.


6 posted on 11/30/2009 6:26:45 PM PST by DogBarkTree (Support Sarah. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/sarahpalin?ref=nf)
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To: Texas Eagle

Huckabee is still hiding behind the Post Prison Transfer Board and their recommendation to decrease his sentence to 49 years or so so that the Parole board could parole him out.

The prosecutors, as they are stating now, though Huckabee refuts this, warned him about this creep and he still went ahead and effectively released him.


7 posted on 11/30/2009 6:27:41 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He didn’t apologize, he blamed the prosecutors for failing to give him the proper information to make the right decision. At least when The First Rapist was Governor of Arkansas, he denied Clemmons clemency when a judge determined Clemmons was fit to be released.


8 posted on 11/30/2009 6:29:16 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("The Community Organizer better stop bitching that the community is organizing." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: theDentist
Ultimately, every time a Governor or President pardons a criminal, they’re taking a gamble the guy won’t go sour. Parole boards too. And when they gamble wrong, others take the brunt of the pain. I’d like to have Huckabee’s adviser(s) who said this guy was OK to be on the tube too, apologizing to the families of the 4 slain.

Sorry, but I am not willing to give the Huckster a break on this.

He pardoned over 700 felons while he was in office, more than all the pardons issued by the 6 states surrounding Arkansas.

Either he was trying to buy votes or he seriously lacks the common sense necessary to lead.
9 posted on 11/30/2009 6:30:01 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

Interesting to know what the truth of the matter was. Did the prosecutors fail to respond?

Even if true, I should think they should have been asked AGAIN before letting a violent criminal out, rather than taking failure to respond as agreement.

I would add that there were NUMEROUS other cases of violent criminals and murderers who were pardoned by Huckabee. A huge number, at least one of whom went on to commit more violent crimes.

Moreover, as I recall, there were several other cases where there was at least the appearance that Huckabee was paid to pardon people—same as his buddy clinton.


10 posted on 11/30/2009 6:31:48 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

All this could have been avoided for Mr. Huckster if he had simply refused the clemency. Had this animal then be released, via some other means (i.e., a Democratic judge), then Huckster would be in the clear.

But Huckster made a character judgment, and it cost 4 families BIG-TIME. As president, a similar misjudgment will result in lost cities and millions if not 10s of millions of deaths.

Based on this (and his hundreds of other springings), he simply is not up to the role of dealing with world leaders.


11 posted on 11/30/2009 6:33:38 PM PST by BobL (Real Men don't use Tag Lines)
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To: SoConPubbie

He pardoned 700 felons in office?

And I was criticized on FR because I supported McCain over him?


12 posted on 11/30/2009 6:33:55 PM PST by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: DeusExMachina05

Huck needs to get back into his being a preacher and set up some soup kitchens and help the homeless and stay away from issues that ate way over his head.


13 posted on 11/30/2009 6:34:51 PM PST by fish hawk (It's sad that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov)
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To: SoConPubbie

I’m not giving him any more a ‘break’ than I gave Dukakis when he released a prisoner (Horton I think the name was) for weekend furlough and murder sprees. I’m just saying these guys can’t know the heart of the prisoners, they’re taking advise of political advisers, and we’re the ones who catch hell when they make the bad call.

Screw Pardons, ESPECIALLY for violent felons. And yes, he was fishing for votes from the liberals in state.


14 posted on 11/30/2009 6:35:35 PM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: SoConPubbie; theDentist
Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of prosecutors.


15 posted on 11/30/2009 6:35:53 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie
Until now, Huckabee has refused to comment on his controversial policy of making violent prisoners eligible for parole– they include murderers, armed robbers and rapists, who often return to a life of crime after they’re freed – but in a statement to The Leader this week, he lashed out at prosecutors for not doing more to keep prisoners behind bars – to which Pulaski County Prosecuting Attor-ney

Larry Jegley had this response: “That’s a load of baloney.”

“I’m offended as a prosecutor and as a citizen. He can blame the prosecutors, but ultimately he’s the man responsible,” Jegley says. “He’s the only one who can sign on the dotted line.

…_ In addition, Jegley, Saline County Prosecuting Attorney Robert Herzfeld and others have accused Huckabee of violating the state Constitution when he commutes sentences without explanation. The Constitution requires the governor to give reasons why he grants clemency to criminals.

“He doesn’t do it,” insists Herzfeld, who recently had a clemency overturned because Huckabee did not explain why he commuted a murderer’s life sentence


Huckabee is a liar and a weasel.
16 posted on 11/30/2009 6:37:36 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie
But the Times’ new reporting shows the extent to which Huckabee and a key aide were involved in the process to win Dumond’s release. It was a process marked by deviation from accepted parole practice and direct personal lobbying by the governor, in an apparently illegal and unrecorded closed-door meeting with the parole board (the informal name by which the Post Prison Transfer Board is known).
17 posted on 11/30/2009 6:39:35 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Apparently Huckabee was looking to take the "Willie Horton Bleeding Heart" trophy away from Mike Dukakis.

I guess this sticks the fork in whatever 2012 presidential aspirations he might have had.

18 posted on 11/30/2009 6:39:56 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 27 days away from outliving Lefty Frizzell)
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To: SoConPubbie

Both of those previous posts were from Michelle Malkin’s Blog.


19 posted on 11/30/2009 6:40:12 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: fish hawk
his being a preacher and set up some soup kitchens

Leave him in the kitchen and leave the preaching to someone else. Some of the things I read on FR that he said is not biblical.
20 posted on 11/30/2009 6:40:56 PM PST by presently no screen name
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