the biggest public mistake was the election of George Bush.  You are working your ass off to correct that mistake.  Things are corrected and I, for one, would hate to see you waste energy on guilt when you have been so focused on this campaign.  You are a highly respected member of this community -- and anyone who takes you to task in light of what you have done, how hard you have worked -- is just damned arrogant.

No public flogging from me.

and boy, do I know guilt! Guilt is appropriate when you've done something wrong, but not if you've made an innocent mistake. You relied on the people training you, and they made a mistake.

Eh. We all make mistakes. It's not as though you voted for the AUMF without bothering to read the NIE, and then refused to aknowledge that it even was a mistake.