[nickcarraway]

I disagree with light sentences for killers and sex offenders, but we should give them appropriate sentence, not reduce everyone else's sentence.

14 years is entirely appropriate for the crimes he commuted.

I love that there are so many Freepers who bemoan how Democrats don't get punished for their crimes. As soon as one actually gets punished, they don't like it.

Blagojevich got exactly what he deserved.

[Mr. K]

Public officials who abuse their power should get double or triple a private citizen sentence

[Teacher317]

14 years for trying to sell a Senate seat, and extortion of some funds, the racetrack and children's hospital, but he was acquitted on extorting the tollway and the Rahm Emanuel extortion charges...

that may be "proper" in your opinion, but a President commuting and lowering a potential prison sentence does not mean that he believes it was too harsh. Commutations and pardons can happen for any reason, or no reason at all. It is fully at his discretion. How you personally choose to interpret the meaning and motive for it is up to you. That doesn't make it so.