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I wouldn’t normally post a political video here unless it was funny, but the story on this one is how it took off like a rocket. I thought this was quite interesting when I first saw it linked on Metafilter yesterday. It was released Friday, posted to YouTube only yesterday, but this morning copies of it occupy five spaces on the Top 20 at Viral Video Chart. It was created by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and Jesse Dylan (son of Bob), inspired by Barak Obama’s “Yes We Can” speech.
Dylan and will.i.am say they did not coordinate the production or release of this video with the Obama campaign and the filmmakers say they don't even know if Obama is aware of the video.
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It simply says they were inspired by his speech, and that the video is wildly popular now. I don't know what you expected...
I for one really enjoyed it.
We can do anything!
We'll fix everything!
Fast forward to the first year of the next Presidency...
"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope".
Too bad Ron Paul is a libertarian dinosaur. Putting the economy on the gold-standard and eliminating the income tax sounds more concrete than 'change' but really the concepts are just as vacuous. Ron Paul is talking about putting a modern post-industrial service economy under the same rules and limitations of a pre-industrial revolution rural farm-economy. If that's not a disaster waiting to happen, his "states rights" rhetoric is the only thing that trumps it. The idea that the internet savvy-bunch can be sold on the idea that "states rights" doesn't mean giving backwards southern states the ability to oppress minorities is preposterous, but it's just happened.
the world won't be free until the last politician is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
don't get me wrong, i don't have a problem with obama, but this thing is international (i write from london, u.k) and is seen differently elsewhere. its no exaggeration to say that there's far more noise here in the u.k regarding your primaries than there is over much of our own politics. there's a direct line of influence which extends from your executive, via your media, corporations and political structures, through ours, to me.
this is not an anti-american thing (i've never visited), but i don't feel i have a choice in any of this. yes, i know, i clicked on the link. silly me. and no, i've never met (or read) naomi klein...;-)
Still I imagine what Hillary's response would be: "No, you can't." But I dunno...maybe Mos Def is right and the Clintons and Bushs are passing the Presidency around like a party joint? I mean, when Ann Coulter says Hillary is more conservative than McCain it makes you think maybe Obama does equal change. Even if it's just a small amount. Every bit counts these days!
Here's a story that crystallized my feeling about him: Obama could have just thrown me under the bus.
Whoever wins, history will be made.
What I really wanted to say was, the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the video was my small nephew's 'Bob the Builder' video- "Bob the Builder, YES WE CAN!!"... he could sing it for hours at a time while doing anything he chose and racing around the house. Really, it was very inspiring, too... ;-)
And the speech was better without the song
This link details why the video was put together:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william/why-i-recorded-yes-w_b_84655.html