re: #104 EPR-radar

To put it crudely, executive clemency for Manning would give the Republicans a club to use on the Democrats for no good reason. I still remember the last minute pardons Clinton did, and that was a factor in my vote for W in 2000.

Yep, they’d use it to validate their whole “Obama is soft on national security” bs that they’ve been doing for years. Honestly, I think Manning’s sentence was fair. As pointed out, he could be out in six and a half years on parole. I think there are literally hundreds of prisoners who Obama should consider pardoning before Manning.