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Late last month, presidential hopeful Mike Gravel came to campus to deliver a talk sponsored by the Harvard College Democrats. A former senator from Alaska and current YouTube superstar, Gravel hopes to bring the power back to the people. FM caught up with the Massachusetts native in Sever Hall, where he discussed everything from his presidential goals to his rap skills...
...fact, Gravel fears he's such a threat to the military industry complex that he wants to dismantle that his campaign headquarters in Virginia has no sign and is on the third floor of a building. He also travels with a bodyguard, Eli Israel, who emailed him from his station in Iraq and, Gravel says, was thrown in the brig for refusing to continue fighting until the Gravel campaign got him a lawyer. Israel usually makes up the entirety of his entourage. "You can pay someone $5,000 to get them rubbed out in South San Francisco," Gravel explains...
...recent weeks, Gravel has been making the rounds of colleges, talking up his big idea for direct democracy. At a meeting with the Harvard Democrats late last week, he insisted he was in the race all the way to November and told his audience that he had more charisma than Obama...
...President, I'll only serve four years and I'll spend them going around the country bullying people to become lawmakers," Gravel recently told students at Yale University. "And if they don't, I will resign, because if they don't care enough to become lawmakers and don't vote to empower themselves, then I don't care enough to be their leader...
...video. I said, 'What do they want me to do?' They said, 'Throw a rock in the water.' I said, 'Great. I'll give them an hour.' So I look in the camera for a full minute and all I can think is I look dumb as s--t," Gravel says...