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10. It took some time

When he picked Rahm, I thought he just wanted his own attack dog, he still held the lease. I kept waiting for the job for Dean to appear. I thought Rick Warren was just a rookie mistake. When he kept Gates, I thought he was looking to use Gates to make the changes necessary. When he shut single payer out, I thought it was a strategy to take the heat off of the public option. It was somewhere around the time that he bailed on the public option that I began to realize we were in trouble. In hind sight, the signs were all around, and in fact Hillary saw them to some extent. There are people here who saw them early. I voted for him twice. I voted for Clinton twice. But it's been a real case of "lesser of two evils", with the emphasis on lesser.