When George W. Bush boarded the former Air Force One to fly home to Texas yesterday, he left behind a lot of disappointed felons, not to mention their lawyers.

He may not have stepped foot on U.S. soil for more than two decades, but billionaire Marc Rich manages to stay relevant.

In the last hours of his presidency, Bill Clinton granted pardons or prison commutations to 140 people. How many of them have shown their gratitude by contributing to his wife’s presidential campaign?

Democrats and Republicans did their best this week to draw distinctions between Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich and George Bush’s commutation of Lewis Libby’s prison sentence.

“I think there are guidelines for what happens when somebody is convicted,” Clinton said in a radio interview Tuesday. “You’ve got to understand, this is consistent with their philosophy; they believe that they should be able to do what they want to do, and that the law is a minor obstacle.”