Gravel tells us how Obama reinvents The Amercan Dream TM

Great Interview with Mike Gravel. I like this statment (paraphrased):

Obama is the most dangerous [of the candidates].... He raises the greatest expectations of the youth ...[which will] create a whole new generation of cynics.

 Really makes me think. Obama appears to be better than the next guy, but it's hard to ignore the facts.

How did Obama acquire so much campaign money (over a 100 million)? Why did he need to spend more money on advertising in Iowa than any other candidate?

Obama supports ethanol production as an alternative fuel to oil (a huge farse since it requires oil to produce) which just so happens to be the interest of the corporate corn farmers of Iowa. He also just voted for the free trade agreements with Chilie and other Latin American countries - quite an anti-labor action.

And like Gravel says, how can the Democrats be that much different from the Republicans if they've managed to raise more money from Wall Street than the Reds. Of course, us progressive have always known the Democracts to be supported by the same companies. But many of us (in Canada) somehow think differently of Obama. Why?

I hear Obama using the rhetoric and buzz words of grassroots politics, of Martin Lurther King, but does he really understand what kind of political/economic (systemic) change must occur in order to fufill the hopes and dreams of the masses. Obama hasn't even suggested how he would change the funding model of political parties in America, how he might provide citizens with the power they need to successfully combat corporate lobbyists, let alone when he will withdraw troops from Iraq, or implement his health care plan. I watch the debates and the three major candidates argue over who supports change more for about twenty minutes and then I think to myself: what kind of change are they even talking about?

If Gravel is right than Obama may have just duped the Democrats into believing in yet another fantasy - a different rendition of the same old America Dream TM.