i know this is a good thing and kudos to mccain but i just dont get it, there were countless blacks charged for something like this even murdered.
why not put a stamp on murderers who were never prosecuted that died. makes sense?
MCCAIN SEEKS PARDON
Pardon sought for first black heavyweight champ (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_go_co/boxing_pardon - broken link)
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In 1999, President Bill Clinton pardoned Lt. Henry O. Flipper, the Army's first black commissioned officer, who was drummed out of the military in 1882 after white officers accused him of embezzling $3,800 in commissary funds. Last year, President George W. Bush pardoned Charles Winters, who was convicted of violating the Neutrality Act when he conspired in 1948 to export aircraft to a foreign country in aid of Israel.
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the bold is irrelevant that guy broke the law.
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Bush gave Burns a phone number which led to adviser Karl Rove, Burns said, but Rove told him a pardon "ain't gonna fly." Rove doesn't recall any such conversation with Burns, his spokeswoman Sheena Tahilramani said, and "if he had been approached, he wouldn't have offered an opinion
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karl rove is indeed racist
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