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When asked about his vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq, Edwards said:
I will tell you this: Making a mistake, which I did, about something that important gives you enormous strength going forward. Because now I have absolutely no hesitation standing behind my independent judgment about what needs to be done. I don't care if it's popular or unpopular. Or what the political considerations are. You probably see some element of that in everything I'm doing.
That's the kind of thing that we need to hear, a "yes, I screwed up, but here's what I took away from it" attitude from a politician that doesn't feel the need to appear infallible.
I seem to remember it's called "learning", something that real grown-ups do. Not the ersatz grown-ups that Darth, Junior, and a certain junior senator from New York are trying to portray.
