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Obama brag: More prison sentences cut than 'any president in history'
The Washington Examiner ^ | December 20, 2016 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 12/20/2016 10:45:43 AM PST by kevcol

President Obama slashed the sentences of over 200 prisoners Monday in an unusually flashy way — he bragged that no other president had done more.

"Today, President Obama granted clemency to 231 deserving individuals — the most individual acts of clemency granted in a single day by any president in this nation's history," heralded the White House.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: criminals; obama; presidentialpardon; prison
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To: Pollster1

Well, we know that some released from Gitmo have returned to the fight to kill us.


21 posted on 12/20/2016 11:04:18 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: kevcol

And all choom gang members/dealers.


22 posted on 12/20/2016 11:05:52 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: rlmorel
Well, we know that some released from Gitmo have returned to the fight to kill us.

That's the nice thing about diversity, as liberals see it: The terrorists released from Gitmo murder our soldiers and overseas American tourists. The thugs released from regular prisons murder their wives and children here in the States.

23 posted on 12/20/2016 11:12:35 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: kevcol

Looks like voting Democrat is a Get Out of Jail Free Card.


24 posted on 12/20/2016 11:13:39 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Secret Agent Man

And what makes them so ‘deserving ‘?

Prisons are a popular place to convert losers to Islam. So many have misogynistic leanings to start with, the muslims just play to that.


25 posted on 12/20/2016 11:19:24 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Pollster1

Grrr. This stuff makes me angry.

It isn’t that I don’t think people deserve a second chance, it is the way this is done.


26 posted on 12/20/2016 11:24:36 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Secret Agent Man

I have no issue with this because it is Constitutional.
In fact, I wish he did this and only this for his whole eight years. Less tyranny, and it would be within the scope of the law.


27 posted on 12/20/2016 11:29:33 AM PST by tbw2
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To: Secret Agent Man

More criminals back on the streets than any president before him and more than the last 10 before him combined....


28 posted on 12/20/2016 11:30:36 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: kevcol
"...Over the last eight years, President Obama has given a second chance to over 1,100 inmates who have paid their debt to society. Our work is ongoing and we look forward to additional announcements from the President before the end of his term," Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said in a statement..."

Not paid, if you asked the people who were burglarized, robbed, held up, had lives ruined or lost by the drugs they sold. The people supporting his actions would like you to think they were all in prison for smoking a joint. Details are short. Anyone know where a list can be obtained?

29 posted on 12/20/2016 11:31:08 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: kevcol

More drug dealers back out on the streets than ever before.


30 posted on 12/20/2016 11:48:40 AM PST by kaehurowing
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To: kevcol

Dr. Cotton Candy is seeing convicts today!


31 posted on 12/20/2016 11:49:02 AM PST by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Moonman62

And you have probably touched upon the motivation for this miscarriage of justice. These commutations are a giant screw you to the men in blue and a concession to the BLM losers.


32 posted on 12/20/2016 11:55:04 AM PST by Navin Johnson
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To: depressed in 06

Yes, and describing all the innocents harmed and murdered by them, as well as a class action lawsuit group they can join.


33 posted on 12/20/2016 12:22:40 PM PST by polymuser (There's a big basket of deportables.)
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To: kevcol

Millions of dollars wasted to lock them up and now millions more wasted to arrest them and lock them up when they start committing crime again


34 posted on 12/20/2016 12:22:41 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: kevcol

Birds of a feather.....


35 posted on 12/20/2016 1:01:23 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: kevcol

More police officers shot during the same period of time.


36 posted on 12/20/2016 1:20:21 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Secret Agent Man

They’ll be back. I’ll guarantee it.


37 posted on 12/20/2016 1:35:02 PM PST by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: kevcol

Do the pardoned “look like America?”


38 posted on 12/20/2016 1:36:38 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: BenLurkin

He wants to leave a horrendous mess for Trump.


39 posted on 12/20/2016 1:46:54 PM PST by lilypad
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To: kevcol

Take note and the victim of the first crime committed by on of them needs to sue Obama.


40 posted on 12/20/2016 1:55:36 PM PST by tiki
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