Very true...I'll bet you're correct.But he'll have to wait at least until mid-Novemember of 2012.That's still a good bit of time at the Crossbar Hotel.
Actually, Obummer can pardon him anytime. The tradition of presidential pardons in the last hours of the administration dates only to Bill Clinton. Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon within a month of taking office, leading to the Republican bloodbath in the 1974 mid-terms. Totally idiotic timing on Ford’s part, but in those days presidents still issued pardons based on the merits of the case rather than political timing.