How many times will John Edwards apologize?

IWR. The banking bill. How many times can a candidate apologize for something that was a bad decision before we have to say "You seem to be wrong a lot of the time." Is he running for office so he can erase the mistakes he made during his senate term?

I guess it's easier to not vote and not have to apologize...

I notice he didn't apologize for voting for Cheney's Energy Buddies' 2005 Energy Policy Act.

Gee, what could they both have been doing in 2007? :eyes:

He is like Bush in that he can't admit mistakes. He is perfect, right? His supporters tell him so. He always has an "explanation."

his "hyuck hyuck, nobody clued me in" schtick about the college-app question, willingness to adopt the "I never make mistakes!" attitude.

Oh, and the "uniter" stuff, too.

We've seen too much of that strategy in the Oval Office recently.

I enjoyed that...thank you. :hi:

then works to correct it, rather than the idiot in office now who goes full speed ahead knowing he's completely wrong. There's isn't anyone that's perfect, so I'll go for the one not bought by special interest coporatocracy. You know, it is Edwards all the way, to the DNC one way or the other. :)

Edwards and Hillary are adults. They can admit mistakes. Obama is like Bush. They can never admit they were wrong. There is always an "explanation" from Obama.

1. IWR
2. Banking Bill

he HAS (past) apologized twice.

peace out.

OBAMA: I feel pretty bad, I do. I feel pretty bad. But let's just respond to the example that was just thrown out.

The bill with respect to privacy for victims of sexual abuse is a bill I had actually sponsored, Hillary. I actually sponsored the bill. It got through the senate.

(APPLAUSE)

That was on the back of 12 other provisions that I was able to pass in the state legislature. Nobody has worked harder than me in the Illinois state legislature to make sure that victims of sexual abuse were dealt with, partly because I've had family members who were victims of sexual abuse and I've got two daughters who I want to protect.

What happened on that particular provision was that after I had sponsored it and helped to get it passed, it turned out that there was a legal provision in it that was problematic and needed to be fixed so that it wouldn't be struck down.

But when you comb my 4,000 votes in Illinois, choose one...

... try to present it in the worst possible light, that does have to be answered. That does have to be answered.


Minutes later

EDWARDS: We've cast hundreds and hundreds of votes. What you're criticizing her for, by the way, you've done to us, which is you pick this vote and that vote out of the hundreds that we've cast.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: No.

EDWARDS: And what -- all I'm saying is, what's fair is fair. You have every right to defend any vote. You do

Everyone of the Senators have voted on bad bills. Does that mean we shouldn't vote for any of them.

What I'd like to know if some of these bills had provisions written in them AFTER the bill passed. We know the rethuglicons have done this on numerous occasions. I guess we will never know for sure.

But hey knock yourself out attacking our candidates. You make us all so proud.

Honestly, I really like John Edwards. I just wanted to post something nasty to see how many people would freak out and come racing to his aid. This was an experiment.

with all the hostility being posted on DU, I guess this should come as no surprise. However, I really don't see the point to it.:shrug:

It's more than Hillary has done. He has seen the damage caused by the IWR vote and the Bankruptcy Bill vote as is willing to admit he was WRONG. What's wrong with that?

Like I said, having to apologize for a lot of things indicates that you have made a lot of bad decisions.