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In reply to the discussion: Why on Earth should we nominate a presidential candidate who voted for war with Iraq? [View all]DevonRex
(22,541 posts)I think it achieves nothing to go back 14 years (by 2016) in time to rehash something that cannot be changed and that ultimately was not the deciding vote.
For women, it is often precarious to apologize in these situations. Had her vote been significant in deciding the matter, then she could and it would be seen as strength to apologize or explain. Because that would be accepting a huge responsibility and the right thing to do.
But her vote was merely one of many. A show of bipartisanship and unity for New York. She has to stay with it and live with it. Believe it or not but that is actually the harder course, knowing what she now knows.
That is how I would see it. Sometimes you have to actually live with your bad decisions (and the ones that circumstances forced on you). And their consequences. And keep going, head held high.