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Earlier this month, I wondered out loud if Obama would pardon Hillary Clinton, giving her sort of an overall amnesty. Folks jumped all over me, especially on Twitter, saying that it was stupid to suggest pardoning someone if they hadn’t been charged with anything. Dutch came to my aid, pointing out the specific legal precedent that would make such a pardon meaningful. I’d also like to present this clipping from the morning paper:
I am going to do something that I’ve never done before in the history of this blog which is to dictate this post verbally. The reason simply stated is that my right hand has very bad tendinitis right now, which I’ve never experienced before but being a person who doesn’t like dealing with pain in the first place it’s fairly debilitating for my typing so, I’m resorting to the mouth and the iPhone. It won’t read quite the same as my writing, but I’m doing what I can.
The media is saturated with analysis about the election and where the media went wrong and what this new presidency will mean for America. One thing I’ve noticed is that some people seem to be creating an analog between the forthcoming Trump presidency and the Reagan presidency from the election of 1980.
I’ll be the first to admit, if you asked me Tuesday, I’d say the odds of this were about zero.
