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Snuffysmith

Feb 23 2008, 01:55 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz32I_GbpeU...feature=related

veritas

Apr 30 2008, 08:41 AM

ARTICLE - Will.i.am posts another Obama song - We Are The Ones
The Associated PressPublished: February 29, 2008
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/29/...-Obama-Song.php

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"With a new wind at our backs, we take this journey across this great country. With the message we carry that out of many, we are one. While we breathe, we will hope, and where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words - yes, we can."
-Barack Obama

http://www.dipdive.com/dip-politics/wato/
Spoken by Obama in the 1:34 segment (Zoe Kravitz - On Taking a Stand) after conclusion of new 'celebrity' video WE ARE ONE/WE ARE THE ONES (we've been waiting for)

http://www.dipdive.com/dip-politics/wato/

making above link the definitive version (see number 2 on dropdown playlist), rather than the more widely viewed truncated youtube version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSJsEVf0pU
(1,334,251 views in 24 hours)

Here's the earlier video by Will.I.Am using Obama's 'Yes, We Can' speech -

http://www.dipdive.com/dip-politics/ywc/

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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 --

Yes. We. Can.

Posted by Sharon Cobb on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 4:04 AM
http://sharoncobb.blogspot.com/2008/02/bar...c-video_05.html

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"I want big change, not little change. And I want you to own this government. I want you to drive this government. I want your hopes and your dreams to be at the center of the agenda in this government. And so understand this, what is wrong with America has nothing to do with the American people. The American people are not the problem. The American people are the answer."
- Barack Obama

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WOTmsb-_xMg&feature=related
Barack Obama in Durham. NC - Let's Go Change The World
Barack Obama speaks at NC Central University in Durham, NC Thursday, November 1, 2007 fund-raising for his campaign. For more go to www.newsobserver.com/ncprimary. (newsobserver.com video by Pailin Wedel)

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