President Clinton came into the White House with scandals, had scandals throughout his presidency and left with more scandals. This time, even some of his biggest supporters are saying, “Enough.”In the last few hours of his presidency, Clinton granted 140 pardons and 36 commutations. A half-dozen of his pardons are being met with suspicions for their links to Clinton’s colleagues or fund-raisers. The most controversial is his pardon of financier Marc Rich, whose ex-wife, Denise Rich, was a contributor to Clinton’s presidential library fund, Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign and the Democratic Party.Rich was indicted on 51 counts in 1983, including tax evasion and making illegal oil deals with Iran during the American hostage crisis. He fled to Switzerland before being indicted and has remained there in order to avoid imprisonment. Other pardons have provided more controversy. Some have alleged that Clinton pardoned four New York embezzlers in exchange for votes for Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate campaign. Thursday, new information came out that Hillary’s brother, Hugh Rodham, was paid $400,000 to obtain a pardon and a prison commutation for two other men. In the past few months, the Clintons have been under fire for: Hillary’s $8 million book deal with Simon & Schuster; receiving $190,027 in gifts in 2000 — which Hillary would be unable to accept as a senator; and taking some $28,000 in gifts, which they later returned, that were meant for the White House and not the Clintons. Clinton was also criticized for looking to rent office space in Manhattan for $800,000 a year, which would be funded by taxpayers. He switched to a $210,000-a-year office in Harlem. Also, when Clinton left the White House to President Bush, staffers made a mess of the offices and removed the “Ws” from keyboards.Clinton is facing an investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Marc Rich pardon, in addition to a Congressional review, and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn. is even talking about impeaching Clinton again for the pardon, which sounds insane, but some Constitutional experts say it can be done.Those who stood up for Clinton throughout Whitewater, Travelgate and his impeachment are now turning their backs on him. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., has said the Rich pardon is “totally indefensible.” Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said, “I have no idea as to what the president’s thinking was when he decided to exercise his constitutional right to give that man a pardon.” President Carter said of the Rich Pardon during a speech at Georgia Southwestern State University, “I don’t think there is any doubt that some of the factors in his pardon were attributable to his large gifts. In my opinion, that was disgraceful.”No one is defending the Rich pardon except Clinton and Denise Rich.Maybe Clinton’s supporters aren’t standing up for him this time because he’s out of power, but most people are getting pretty sick of the Clintons. Whether the Rich pardon was bought or not, no “right-wing conspiracy” can explain why Clinton left office in such a disgraceful way. Unfortunately, this isn’t the last we’ll be seeing of Clinton. Though he’s said he won’t run for mayor of New York, he’ll probably find a governorship or Senate seat to retire into in the next few years. Meanwhile, Hillary will without a doubt attempt a presidential run in 2008 or 2012. In the 1998 movie “Wag the Dog,” the president’s advisers faked a war with Albania to get people’s attention off the president’s sex scandal. Clinton is doing Bush a similar favor; so many people are complaining about pardons and gifts, not a lot of opposition to missile defense and federal funding of churches is getting through.Enough is enough. How many scandals are we supposed to tolerate? Clinton was a good president during the few non-fund-raising, non-golfing, non-hitting-on-employees moments of his presidency, but he left it in such disgrace it’s hard to remember that. Jocelyn Marcus is a junior in English from Ames. She is wire editor of the Daily.