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Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel said this week that he would likely oppose President Barack Obama in the 2012 Democratic Party primaries if supporters of such an effort can raise $1 million. That's a mere one-thousandth of the billion dollars the Obama camp expects to raise.

“Somebody should challenge Obama, there’s no question about it. He is what he is, and it’s not what we want,” former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel said in an interview with The Daily Caller.

Gravel's comments show that growing chorus of calls for a primary challenger to the president is being heard. Obama's utter failure to defend the positions he so convincingly staked out in building support during the 2008 campaign has led an increasing number of Americans to question the validity of the two-party system. Some now question whether the policy differences between the two major parties, so carefully elucidated during election season, even exists in degrees which would have profoundly positive effects on the lives of average Americans.

Gravel is the first of the 2008 class of Democratic presidential primary candidates to publicly call for a challenge to Obama in 2012. That field also included Sen. Joe Biden (now Obama's vice president), Sen. HIllary Clinton (now Secretary of State), Sen. Chris Dodd, Sen. John Edwards, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, and then-Gov. Bill Richardson (NM).