SFGate seems to pine for the days of Clinton when a pardon wasn't an act of mercy but one for political or monetary gain:

President Bush has granted pardons to four people convicted of relatively minor offenses, bringing to 11 the number whose offenses he has excused since taking office.

The Justice Department announced Thursday that pardons were granted to people from Nevada, Florida, Wisconsin and British Columbia, Canada. Complete details of the cases were not immediately available.

Bush's previous pardons were announced two days before Christmas last year. Those pardons included a man convicted of selling illegal moonshine in Tennessee 40 years ago and a man who had stolen $10.90 out of the mail more than 30 years earlier to support a drug habit.

None of those seven were major political donors.

Isn't it appalling that they even had to insert that last line.