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Pardon Me, Huckabee

Alex 1 Wrote: Dec 08, 2009 10:36 PM

...exercised only in rare and unusual circumstances. In other words, there had better be a darn good reason for it. Mercy alone is not a sufficient reason. Mercy is not the governor's to give anyway. He is acting in behalf of the people of the state, not himself. The debt the criminal pays is to society, not to Mike Huckabee.

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Pardon Me, Huckabee

As unpopular as it may be, I stand and applaud Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas. Given the heat he is taking right now, he could stand a little praise, not so much for political purposes but for moral ones.

In 2000, Huckabee, then the governor of Arkansas, commuted the sentence of Maurice Clemmons. Nine years later, it appears that Clemmons murdered in cold blood four police officers in a Seattle suburb this past weekend. As a result, voices from every imaginable perspective clamor for the end of any future political aspirations Huckabee may have. Critics claim Huckabee is soft...

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