Blind governor pardons Slick Rick
Well, I guess at least one good thing came from Eliot Spitzer getting caught frequenting hoo-ers. Or two, if you count those MySpace pictures of her. (Lord knows I did.)
Did Slick Rick trick David Paterson into signing off on his pardon by telling him it was a receipt for some fried chicken? I don't know. At any rate, it was just announced that the rapper has received a full and unconditional pardon from the governor.
Here's a statement I just got in the mail from who I'm assuming is Slick Rick's Jewish lawyer.
My family and I are eternally thankful to Governor Paterson, my attorneys Michael Krinsky and Craig Kaplan at Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman and to all of the people who have supported me throughout the past seventeen years. This has been a long and difficult road and I am happy for this to be settled once and for all. I look forward to enjoying this time with my family and friends and to continue leading an honest and productive life.
Good for him.
For the sake of making this interesting, I'm gonna go ahead and throw this out there: If, by some miracle, Barack Obama is elected president, which black criminals should he let off the hook?
Only thing is, it's not really a good idea politically to start pardoning mofos your first day in office. Bill Clinton, for example, waited until right before he was about to leave before he started pardoning people. So DMX would have to wait at least four years, if not eight, and who knows what might happen to him in the meantime.
The plus side is that, from what I understand, one of the perks of being president is that you can pretty much pardon anyone you want. Imagine if Barack Obama was actually black in the way that many of us are. He could probably pardon mad people in his family alone. In fact, it's probably a good thing he isn't.
