We’re nearing the end of the second Bush administration, which means it’s time for convicted felons to line up and get their pardons while they can. That list includes Marion Jones, who has asked the president to commute her six-month term for lying to federal agents in the BALCO investigation.

Jones was also sentenced to two months for perjury in a check fraud case involving fellow sprinter Tim Montgomery, her former boyfriend and the father of her first child. She was allowed to serve those two sentences concurrently.

The former darling of the American sports scene has already fallen into debt and was forced to return her five medals from the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Unmoved by Jones’ plight, USA Track and Field CEO Doug Logan has asked President Bush not to commute her sentence, saying it would send the wrong message to children. Finally, someone is thinking of the children.

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