“not only did obama NOT pardon him, he went out of his way to say that he was NOT pardoning him, and won’t even allow for liveable conditions”
He certainly has livable conditions. But indeed Obama will never pardon him. Nor would Bush. The only President in recent memory to engage in political pardons is Clinton, and both Presidents Bush and Obama were horrified and vowed never to do that. There was never a realistic chance that either would release Pollard early.