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With all due respect, the President is not on trial here. These men went to trial and were convicted for not doing the right thing.

You can explore the pros and cons of pardoning these men, which is what the President is doing...but his character has nothing to do with the actions of the agents. They are responsible for their own deeds. Period. Bush didn't make them do it. The law didn't make them do it. THEY did it. A pardon simply acknowledges that they broke the law, but we're going to forgive them because of extenuating circumstances. It absolves them from consequences, not blame.

I constantly see folks posting about "not walking lock-step" and "thinking for ourselves" on this forum...and yet this entire episode is so rife with group-think and hysteria that it is, frankly, embarrassing.

His character has everything to do with it. GROW UP! When the President of the United States makes a political statement,be it some sellout amnesty program or calling a group of concerned citizens like the Minutemen a vigilante group there's a statement loud and clear being sent. Maybe You think the world of politics is a Norman Rockwell painting but I don't and I disagree that questioning this whole situation is hysteria.As for your embarrasment I could care less !!!