Celebrities Band Together for Obama ‘Yes We Can’ Video
will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, along with several celebrities including Kate Walsh, Scarlett Johansson, and John Legend (to name a few) have gotten together to pay homage to Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Here’s the video for their song “Yes We Can.”Lyrics to the song are after the jump!
Lyrics:
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
Yes we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.
Yes we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.
Yes we can.
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can to justice and equality.
Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.
Yes we can heal this nation.
Yes we can repair this world.
Yes we can.
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics…they will only grow louder and more dissonant ……….. We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check. We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.
But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Now the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea –
POSTED BY: Jebbica
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Damn he’s inspiring.
“But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
That did it for me, I have to figure out if I can change my registration before Tuesday.
Very Inspiring.
If anyboy is to bring change to this country. It’ll be OBAMA….GREAT MAN!
Shit! That man is bid deal.
Yes we can? Do what? What a bunch of fluff and dramatics. I give him an A+ for showmanship. But what is he really going to do for the country. Change? Change we can believe in? What change? Really what is he going to do? Specifics not drama or emotion. Our country is in bad shape now because of drama and emotion. Give me some substance instead of a smokescreen.