Yes, We Can. Artists Release Music Video Based on Barack Obama's Speech

From CNN

With just a few days to go before the critical Super Tuesday primaries, Black Eyed Peas' frontman will.i.am and director Jesse Dylan, son of legendary musician Bob Dylan, have released a new song featuring a host of celebrities and one very unlikely music video star: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

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Watch the Video and please share it now.  This Tuesday, February 5th is the single most important day of voting in the Presidential Primary and hope CAN beat fear.  It only takes people.  Our democracy allows us a bloodless revolution by our votes and our voices.  Speak up!

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"Yes We Can," released Friday, is centered around footage of the speech the Illinois senator gave after the New Hampshire primary last month.

The music video includes excerpts from that Obama speech and appearances from celebrities including jazz artist Herbie Hancock, former LA Lakers captain Kareem Abdul Jabbar, singer John Legend, model Amber Valletta, actresses Kate Walsh and Scarlett Johansson, and others.

(In an interview with the Associated Press last month, Johansson had joked that she was engaged to the White House hopeful, telling a reporter: “My heart belongs to Barack.”)

Dylan and will.i.am told ABC News they did not coordinate the creation or release of the video with the Obama campaign, and are unsure Obama knows about the production.

Comments

[Jeff]

From USA Today
Feb. 3, 2008

Barack Obama has surged to a statistical tie with Hillary Rodham Clinton in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, erasing a double-digit national lead she held just two weeks ago and turning the Democratic nomination race into a nail-biter. Read the story here.

[jen maiser]

I just saw this for the first time tonight and am stunned - I can't remember ever seeing anything like it. Amazing.