The Black Commentator's Larry Pinkney:

    It is both sad and simultaneously horribly fascinating to observe so 
    many euphorically pinning their hopes and dreams on Barack Obama, a 
    chameleon who speaks liberally of "change" but who is, himself, 
    beholden to the very same blood-sucking corporate vampires 
    (including Lockheed and others) who are ravaging the peoples of 
    America, and the entire planet. It seems we have moved 
    euphemistically from Dracula to a corporately repackaged Blackula in 
    the person of Barack Obama. In the very name of "change", Obama is 
    moving America euphorically backwards.

Me?  Cynthia McKinney offers real, structural change.  When Obama says 
he'll support structural changes in voting by mandating true, 
multi-party public financing of elections (making bribery truly 
illegal), proportional representation, instant-runoff or 
single-transferable voting, none-of-the-above voting, and Condercet 
voting, then he might be considered an advocate for real change.

Merely being publicly audacious does not change a man's true colors (no 
pun intended).  Being able to talk the talk is very different from 
walking the walk.

If you go to Project Vote Smart, you'll note that what Congress votes on 
is mostly superfluous to the real issues that affect people today.  True 
representation, true decentralization, true public financing of 
elections.  The two parties express their dissents in tokens of change.

Where has the Democratic Congress and Obama (DCO) been on Impeaching 
Bush?  Repealing Taft-Hartley?  Subsidizing Renewable Energy?  Repealing 
NCLB and the bankruptcy bill?  Single-payer Universal Health Care?  
High-speed rail and alternative transit?  Completely subsidizing college 
tuition?  Building and repairing schools?  Raising the estate tax to 
prevent the generational, unearned transfer of wealth?  Raising capital 
gains taxes and reducing payroll taxes?  A national minimum income?  An 
environmental/green CCC/WPA?  Ending the doctrine of corporate 
personhood?

Sending Bush, Rummy, Dick, Rove, and Condi to the Hague to stand trial 
for war-crimes?  But only after they've been jailed for grave 
constitutional violations?

When an issue comes up, like telecom immunity for complicity in 
constitutional violations (which is dubious in any case since 
legislative decrees cannot change the constitutionality of an act!), 
that we know will go the wrong way anyways, even in the Democratic 
Congress, Obama is the first to solidify his left-credentials.  However, 
he's the last to actually take meaningful action.  Obama is not Green in 
any sense.

If you want to see somebody take meaningful action to challenge the 
status quo, look at Cynthia McKinney, not Barack Obama: he's all talk.