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[DutchLiberal]

I don't feel the urge to add "in my opinion" after every statement I make about a candidate. This is a discussion forum, and it seems to me it's obvious, most of the time, when someone is stating facts and when someone is giving an opinion. And you can mix the two of them by telling *why* you feel a certain way about a certain candidate. That's what I did when I talked about Edwards.

Yes, you're right: nobody is perfect, nobody is blameless, everybody makes mistakes. Of course Dennis Kucinich also made mistakes. I know he's for abortion rights now, but he used to be strongly against it. Sometimes, people can come around and realize they made a mistake. It's just that Edwards has made much more mistakes. Also, Kucinich has always been a progressive on all other issues, even when he opposed abortion rights. That's why his turn on abortion seems believable to me. Edwards never was a progressive (at least not in my eyes) until recently and he turned around on every issue, which makes his turn seems suspicious, to me.

I agree with you it's better to have a candidate who made mistakes and apologized for them and who has learned from them. I don't recall HRC ever apologized for her IWR-vote. Did she?