Whatever else you say about the President, you cannot accuse him of cowardice in his Pardons.

[rug]

Ronald Lee Foster - Beaver Falls, Pa.

Offense: Mutilation of coins. Sentence: Oct. 4, 1963; Eastern District of North Carolina; one year of probation and $20 fine.

[rgbecker]

1. Drilling holes in Quarters and using them as washers.

[somone]

2. How about a jaywalker

or something really serious

[Poll_Blind]

3. HELP STAMP OUT COIN GENITAL MUTILATION IN OUR LIFETIME.

I didn't catch that was from '63. Musta really been burning up the numismatic community.

PB

[TexasObserver]

4. That will make a great chapter in "Profiles in Courage II."

[NuclearDem]

5. Mutilating coins isn't illegal, it's just frowned upon

Like masturbating on an airplane. :evilgrin:

[Poll_Blind]

7. I tried that but I my pants always make me trip while I'm chasing after them.

:(

PB

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. I'm guessing the expectation for pardons would be freeing Leonard Peltier?

:shrug:

[rug]

11. Heavens, no, that would not be pragmatic. But maybe one of these miscreants.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0718-01.htm

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. I would click your link

But it's not my practice to give hits to web sites working to elect Republicans.

Feel free to cut and paste.

:-)

[rug]

14. How about a picture and caption? You can google their names for a link of your liking.

Sister Dorothy Marie Hennessey, left, and Sister Gwen L. Hennessey will serve six months in prison for trespassing. Sister Dorothy Marie, who is 88, rejected a judge's offer to serve her sentence under house arrest. (Mark Hirsch for The New York Times}

[unapatriciated]

20. sad day when Common Dreams is accused of helping R's get elected.

Peace and helping the working poor are no longer considered something Dems should care about.
I agree there were so many others that deserved and needed pardons, yet he chose to give to many who didn't need them.

[alcibiades_mystery]

24. It's a sad day when that's the only way it actually functions

Common Dreams should be better than that, but it's not.

[unapatriciated]

25. and they are

If You Want More Debt Vote Republican
by Robert Freeman
One of the most successful deceits of the past thirty years is that Republicans are the party of "fiscal discipline." In fact, Republicans are the party of fiscal wreckage. Simply put, Republicans love deficits and debt. They have buried the country with them. They expand them with orgiastic fervor every time they get the chance. Until we come to grips with this simple truth we will never gain control of our fiscal destiny.

In 1980 the national debt stood at $1 trillion. Over the prior 204 years, the nation paid for the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the build-out of an entire continent, the First World War, the Great Depression, the Second World War, Korea, Vietnam, and the better part of the Cold War. And through all that, we still only borrowed $1 trillion.

But over the next 12 years of relative peace and prosperity, Republicans Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush would quadruple the national debt, to $4 trillion. They did it by dramatically lowering taxes on the wealthy and furiously expanding government spending. This isn't even economics, it's arithmetic: bring in less income while spending more money, and the result is debt. Mountains of it.

Bill Clinton reversed the Republicans' destructive formula, raising taxes on the rich and cutting spending to 17.4% of GDP, a level not seen in 30 years. The result was the longest economic expansion in American history. More than 20 million jobs were created, another record, while the stock market tripled. Most importantly, Clinton produced the first budget surpluses since 1969, handing George W. Bush a $140 billion surplus.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/31-0

please post a link to support your accusation that they supported electing R's and a criticism of policy is not advocating voting R.

[alcibiades_mystery]

23. Thanks!

:-)

[unapatriciated]

19. Yes, this person spent her life working to get R's elected

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/21/10498
Lina Newhouser, Common Dreams Co-Founder, 1951-2008
CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine -- Lina Jeanne Newhouser, 56, of Seal Cove Lane, died at her home Friday evening, July 18th, from complications following an April 'mini-allo' stem-cell transplant as part of the long treatment in her defiant 3-year stand against non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Lina wrote of her long struggle on her blog - www.tellthebees.org

Lina was an artist, a political activist, an organic farmer, a businesswoman and a proud, loving mom.

Lina was born in Grand Junction, Colorado -- the daughter of John and Charlotte Newhouser. But she considered her beloved New Orleans home - where she was raised and went to high school. Lina graduated from Southwestern College in Memphis, Tenn. She also lived and studied at the University of Munich, Germany for two years.

After college Lina became a community organizer with ACORN: the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, working in Texas, Little Rock, Ark., and Bridgeport, Conn. In 1980 she worked on the national staff of the Citizens' Party, trying to elect Barry Commoner President as a vehicle for starting a progressive third party in the US. She met and worked with both of her future husbands on the Citizens' Party staff. Lina then was off to New York City for a job as co-director of the Media Network that combined her two passions, art and politics, in a project using independently produced films as organizing and educational tools in NYC's working class neighborhoods.



and we all know how much the R's loved acorn and their love for the working class makes me dizzy with joy.
You may not agree with their politics because they dared to criticize some of the policies regarding this administration, but to say they work to elect republicans is a stretch.

[Angry Dragon]

8. Wait until he pardons bush in year four

[somone]

10. Not far-fetched

entirely logical, actually

[laughingliberal]

9. ROFL!! nt

[bigtree]

12. give it a minute . . .

oh, just more ignorant snark. I should have known.

[rug]

15. Which is all a presidential pardon for mutilating coins, and a $20 fine, deserves.

[bigtree]

18. very brave of you for pointing that out here

[rug]

22. I wanted to make sure it was put on that list of accomplishments.

What hell that poor man endured for 47 years.

[ProSense]

16. It would definitely have been

more courageous to not pardon this person. That would have been real courage.

[rug]

17. I'm sure the consequences of this one were thoroughly considered.

[Dystopian]

21. omg.

:yourock:
peace~