Posted on 12/08/2009 3:42:46 AM PST by FTJM
The nation was stunned by the senseless and savage cold-blooded murders of four young police officers in Lakewood, Wash., over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Whenever a police officer or soldier is killed, the loss is even more profound, for they are the ones who stand between our way of life and total anarchy.
Nine years ago, the name Maurice Clemmons crossed my desk. I commuted his sentence from 108 years to 47 years. I take full responsibility for my actions of nine years ago. I acted on the facts presented to me in 2000. If I could have possibly known what Clemmons would do nine years later, I obviously would have made a different decision. If I only had the same information I had then, I would make the same decision.
Each state is different, but in Arkansas, a governor doesn't initiate a parole -- the Post Prison Transfer Board (PPTB) does so after it conducts a thorough review of an inmate's file and request. The board then makes a recommendation to the governor, who decides to grant or deny it.
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Huck,
Quit while you’re behind.
Sincerely,
A former Huckabee backer
Your 2 cents sir.
I don’t like Huckster either, but, this charge is unfair. He commuted teh sentence, he didn’t make the decision to release him. Upon release, they were numerous incidents and parole violations that various cogs in the machinery failed to act upon.
There is NO excuse or reason for this.
Huckabee and a lot of others have used the power of the pardon inexcusably.
Many sold pardons. Did you Huckster?
And if you said no I would not believe ya there pal.
Just say NO to RINO turds.
This is a classic,Obamaesque twisting of the facts and saying something, that while technically true, completely misrepresents the situation. It is very much like the Obama claim that illegals would not be covered that provoked Joe Wilson's, “You, lie!”
In reality, Huckabee’s clemency allowed that psychopath, Clemmons, to be released immediately, after only 11 years. He would have been eligible for parole in 2015, after 25 years. The 108 and 47 years were just numbers that in no way reflected the actual amount of time Clemmons would have spent in prison and Huckabee knows this!
So, in reality, Huckabee reduced his true sentence from 25 years to 11, a foolish, liberal decision that caused the death of 4 police officers.
I used to like Huckabee,
but his slimy distortion of the truth in the Clemmons matter has put him in the same class as Romney, in my book. If Huckabee some gets the GOP nomination I will contribute to and work for a third party candidate. He has shown himself to be completely devoid of integrity.
I suppose he will be the RINO in waiting that the Republicans will be looking for as a candidate.
Somewhere on another Huck thread there is proof that Huck is not as innocent as he makes it seem.
I believe there was evidence that he was actively enabling this guy to be released when he was.
The non-sequitor between the second and third paragraph shown here is jarring.
He starts talking about the decision to grant clemency, but immediately switches to parole (because he didn’t control that decision).
My major beef with Huck’s record on clemency is that he was highly active in granting it, but does not wish to acknowledge that the rate of clemency actions greatly increases the probability of serious recidivism or even escalation.
Huckabee did not cause those four officers’ deaths. But Huck’s record and rate of clemency postulates that more good people will die at the hands of people he decided to favor. Huck’s ambitions for higher office had damned well better be dead after this, especially given his “I take responsibility, but it was someone else’s decision” stance as defined in his op-ed here.
Old Huckabee is playing the blame game. Not the kind of guy you’d fight out of a foxhole with. He’s as spineles bleeding heart liberal. Has he explained all the pardons he doled out to convicted felons while he was governor? From what’s been said he handed out more pardons than any other Ark. gov. including Bill “the stain” Clinton.
******I suppose he will be the RINO in waiting that the Republicans will be looking for as a candidate*****
He is now the chosen GOP candidate the MSM will promote for the party nomination. ala McCain.
neither warn nor cold so you shall be will spit out...
I starting to think Arkansas Politcans atr all spineless.
Huckabee opened the flood gates by reducing this mans sentence to 47 years. Don’t you find it at all interesting that, gee by golly, that was the exact timing to make Clemmons immediatly eligible for parole and by golly he was parolled. Such magic. The failure was started by him, he opened the floodgate and made it possible for this monster to be out and committing more crimes. That does not excuse the failures by others.
Huck is the only one talking because he wants a political career.
Between Huck constantly defending letting a murderer go free and Mitt constantly defending a healthcare plan that bankrupted the state.... looks like it’s going to be
S-A-R-A-H !!!
The Huckster can't man up. He's a slimy lying weasel from start to finish. Remember the campaign ad with the big moving cross, that he swore he never noticed? He's a frigging liar, period. Which would be bad enough in a Tricky Dick pol, but in a "man of God" it's absolutely disgusting. He makes Elmer Gantry look honest and sincere by comparison.
Since many primaries are “OPEN” and MAO-bama will have no opposition, I expect many liberals to crossover and vote for RINOs like huckster to defeat conservatives like Sarah.
You and I may not buy the MSM foisting the Huckster upon us. BUT, if Obama selects him as his opponent, the GOP can’t stop Obama’s minions from flooding the primaries in 2012 with votes for the Huckster. The GOP can prevent this by closing their primaries and ending “same-day” registration, but they won’t make that effort.
My prediction - Obama runs against either Huckabee or Romney, whichever one will keep the most conservatives at home on election day.
Please go away. We don't need anymore @ssholes from the Arkansas governor's mansion in the White House -- or even consuming bandwidth on Al Gore's Internet.
Sincerely,
Alberta's Child
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