"President Barack Obama proving stingy with his pardon power"

The title of this post is the headline of this little piece today in the Chicago Tribune.  These basics about President Obama's poor clemency track record to date should be familiar to regular readers of this blog:

A lot of things have moved pretty quickly in the Obama administration. Presidential pardons are not among them.  In two and a quarter centuries, only four presidents have been slower than President Barack Obama in exercising their authority of executive clemency -- granting either pardons or commutations of sentences to the convicted -- with thousands of applications pending at the Justice Department.

Some related posts on federal clemency:

• Notable press stories noting Obama's lack of clemency action
• A simple plea for Prez Obama: grant at least a single clemency in your first 100 days
• Historical evidence that it is NOT too early to start demanding clemencies from President Obama
• Still waiting ... and waiting ... and waiting ... on the clemency front
• Another public and potent call to reinvigorate the pardon power
• "Judge urges Obama to cut coke dealer's sentence"
• ACS issue brief on the pardon power
• Latest FSR issue on "Learning from Libby"
• "The Fall of the Presidential Pardon"
• When will President Obama start acting like President Lincoln when it comes to the clemency power?
• What might 2009 have in store for . . . executive clemency?