There’s been a lot of shady and outright dirty campaign donation news coming from the Hillary camp lately — between the felon-fund-raiser Norman Hsu and the reports of Chinese immigrant dishwashers making $1000 donations to Hillary, the last thing she needed the first thing this morning was this — news that Hillary is taking large campaign donations from the controversial pardons doled out by her husband.

It almost looks like maybe they are paying her in thanks/reward/agreement for the shady pardons Mr. Clinton granted them when he was President.

Shit. Who am I kidding with that “almost looks like” thrown in there — that’s exactly what it looks like.

Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour pardons issued by former President Bill Clinton in January 2001 have donated thousands of dollars to the presidential campaign of his wife, Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., according to campaign finance records examined by ABC News, in what some good government groups said created an appearance of impropriety.

“It’s not illegal,” Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told ABC News. “But, of course, it’s inappropriate and she should return the money. It does raise the appearance that this is payback.

But if Hillary were to actually return all of the inappropriate money she’s received, she’d have to go the John Edwards Public Funding route of campaign financing…