[sweet_diane]

I'm going to print the article. I may have a friend who needs to read it! This issue is one I'm all too familiar with, unfortunately, from a couple of different perspectives.

While I know there are cases where clemency is EARNED over YEARS of righteous living, it should not be handed out like a parting gift. The donation to the Republican party makes me ill. Huckabee isn't my guy, yet I still don't want to believe he could be bought.

[Cicero]

Frankly, I’d almost rather think he was taking bribes than think that he was an idiot, bleeding heart liberal in the Carter vein who would let off every criminal who gave him a sob story, and, worse, be lenient with every foreign enemy and illegal alien who gave him a sob story.