Great news: Obama eases sentences for crack cocaine possession and child pornography!

Just what we need. And, I'm sure it will come in handy for him personally.

Obama backs off strict crime policy

For years, it was one of the GOP’s most potent political epithets – labeling a Democrat “soft on crime.”

But the Obama White House has taken the first steps in decades to move away from a strict lock-‘em-up mentality on crime – easing sentences for crack cocaine possession, launching a top-to-bottom review of sentencing policies and even sounding open to reviewing guidelines that call for lengthy prison terms for people convicted of child pornography offenses.