Obama pardons 9 people

Associated Press ^ | Dec. 3, 2010 | ERICA WERNER

[Free ThinkerNY]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has granted the first pardons of his presidency, to nine people convicted of crimes including possessing drugs, counterfeiting and even mutilating coins.

No one well-known was on the list, and some of the crimes dated back decades or had drawn little more than a slap on the wrist in the first place - such as the Pennsylvania man sentenced in 1963 to probation and a $20 fine for mutilating coins. The mutilation of coins occurred when a young Marine made dimes out of pennies, cutting the lip off, to use the coins in vending machines.

[Linda Frances]

Let me guess, their all terrorist who promises to make a large campaign contribution.

[PAR35]

Seems to have a special place in his heart for cocaine dealers. Only one old bootlegger on the list.

[ClaudiusI]

He’s gone Caligula on us. Expect him to make Michelle a consul next.

[Gondring]

OUCH! Cold!

...but appropriate. :-)

She is an “Incitata,” after all.

[depressed in 06]

He’s gone Caligula on us. Expect him to make Michelle a consul next.

What and apt reference to Incitatus.

[PghBaldy]

I noticed that coke fixation too. He seems awfuly stingy with the pardons, IMO.

[Rio]

I’ve gotta try that making-pennies-into-dimes thing.

[M-cubed]

LMAO...Been there done that!
Rub that sucker on a cement wall long enough and u can make it the exact same size as a dime!

It was hard work!!...I took took a job for .75 an hour and never looked back...

[rfp1234]

The 1919 White Sox?

[ReverendJames]

I mutilated some coins. Back when coins had silver in them I made rings out of them ...

[BenLurkin]

"You're talkin' 'bout me agin, aren't you?"

[SpaceBar]

Dry run for twenty-nine million next year.

[ElkGroveDan]

The mutilation of coins occurred when a young Marine made dimes out of pennies, cutting the lip off, to use the coins in vending machines.

I'd comment on this, but first I need to know if the Statute of Limitations applies to this kind of offense.

[Tenniel2]

Unfair to equines! Incitatus had more brains in his left rear hoof... (which, according to some contemporaneous reports, is the swipe that Bootsie was taking at the Senate when he made that notorious appointment).

[Rome2000]

Bunch of druggies and scam artists, pardoned apparently at random, and for no particularly good reason.

That Hussein sure is one sick sick son of a whore.

[Lockbar]

Horse faced, or horse a$$ed?