Scooter Libby wasn't pardoned today. Scooter Libby - someone I don't much care for, btw - had his sentence commuted by the President. It was a sentence that only savages on the left would deem fair. Two and a half years in jail, plus $250,000, plus several years of probation. This was significantly more than the prosecutor asked for, and far more than is the norm - even for a public official. Moreover, he was denied freedom during his appeals, which is highly unusual.
The sentence was, in short, vindictive. It was mean spirited, particularly given the fact that Libby's lies were actually lies of pride and not lies covering up a crime. He's a fool, I'll grant you. I'll even grant you that his foolish pride has, indeed, made him a criminal. He deserves to be punished, but this sentence makes you wonder if Judge Walton's pride isn't worse. If only we could punish him, as well... but I digress.
George Bush's commutation was, by any reasonable measure, nothing more than righting a wrong. He didn't declare Libby innocent by setting aside the sentence. He's still requiring Libby to pay a quarter of a million dollars and serve probation. Libby has forfeited his career, and any aspirations he might have had for a public career beyond being the manservent to Dick Cheney are gone.
He committed a dumb crime, and he is paying big time. But at least he's not being used as a whipping post.
To Barack Obama, however, this is a great injustice. To Obama, Libby's sentence was appropriate. He is now on the record as saying this, and let the record stand.
Let this stand right beside it: Anyone who supports a martinet is a martinet-wannabe, and is not worthy of anything more than contempt. Thus I find Barack Obama. A small man, with a pitiful sense of justice.
His faith was hijacked? By whom, Satan?
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