Do you think President Obama will give Polanski Clemency ?

[UndertheOcean]

I don't know how likely is that . I don't think the Swiss will surrender him to the U.S. though .

Wagner was an Anti-Semetic bastard , but his music will stay with us forever.

Polanski is a child rapist , no doubt about it ,and deserves jail, but his films will be appreciated forever .

That is one of the Paradoxes of the human condition . Rapists and Racists can still produce great works of Art and Culture.

[gateley]

1. I think Obama has other issues on his plate at the moment. nt

[vadawg]

2. WTF dudes a child rapist regardless, if you cant seperate the man from his art

[imdjh]

3. Only if he wants 100 million Americans calling him a child molester.

Look at what they are trying to do to Kathy Castor over the ACORN mess.

[Bicoastal]

4. Two words:

POLITICAL SUICIDE.

[ruggerson]

5. hahahaha

[UndertheOcean]

6. wow , this seems to be unanimous up to now !

[subcomhd]

7. why in god's name would he do such a thing?

[Avalux]

8. Why should he?

Polanski fled and has lived outside of the US all these years, enjoying a great deal of fame and fortune. He committed a crime and should be held accountable even all these years later.

[babylonsister]

9. Dumb. nt

[CoffeeCat]

10. Ummm...no...who would ever think that?

obama give clemency to a child rapist who alluded law and accountability?

yeah, after he does that maybe he'll swim naked in the Potomac.

[PM Martin]

11. NO! That is NOT going to happen.

Pardoning a rapist is a losing proposition.

[BlooInBloo]

12. Did someone drop a stupidbomb on DU today or something?

[rug]

13. It's a state case, not federal.

[nsd]

14. Polanski is up on a state charge, not a federal one.

Obama has nothing to do with it.

[geek tragedy]

16. Extradition is still something Obama has to deal with. nt

[hedgehog]

15. Umm, woul dyou be thinking of Malia's father, Sasha's father or Michelle's husband?

[flvegan]

17. Gotta be kidding me.

[proteus_lives]

18. No. For two reasons.

1. He won't give the repugs that kind of ammo.

2. It would be morally wrong to give him clemency.

[HughMoran]

19. snowball's chance in hell

not

[charlie]

20. Or he could spend the rest of his term wearing a muumuu

It couldn't be any worse for his approvals and it's more comfortable than a suit.

[FarCenter]

21. It is a state of California matter, their governor could pardon him after he is convicted

[MrModerate]

22. I guess I have a slightly different question . . .

Polanski is a child molester (or at least guilty of having molested a child), and as such should be subject to law and public obloquy. However, he's far from the only child molester wandering around, and light years away from being the most horrific.

Isn't this frenzy about his arrest just as unseemly in its own way as the Natalie Holloway case, where the media was obsessed for months about one victim, during which time tens of victims of similar crimes disappeared and suffered unreported but horrible fates?

Wouldn't it be better to note that Polanski had been apprehended and woo-hoo for justice, and then move on to something more pressing?

I guess I just don't have the stomach for celebrity takedowns today.

[demosincebirth]

23. Wouldn't Jerry Lee Lewis be considered a child rapist under those standards? The only...

difference is that he married her. And she was only 13.

[UndertheOcean]

24. That is unbelievable

But at least there was consent in his case.

[demosincebirth]

26. Consent or no consent, its still against the law in Ca.and in many other states

[Gwereeya]

25. Hell No!

I hope Polanski's next film is a soulful, touching story about prison rape!

[dysfunctional press]

27. why wouldn't the swiss surrender him?

he already pled guilty to the charges.

if they didn't intend to surrender him, why take him into custody in the first place?

roman's going to do some time.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

28. No

Why would he? Why do you ask? :shrug: