Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video

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Congratulations, Mr. President.



-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 --

Yes. We. Can.

Guest appearances -

will.i.am - 0:01
Scarlett Johansson - 0:05
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - 0:21
Common - 0:23
John Legend - 0:32
Bryan Greenberg (guitar) - 0:37
Kate Walsh - 0:44
Tatyana Ali - 0:44
Harold Perrineau, Jr. - 0:49
Aisha Tyler - 1:01
Samuel Page - 1:03
Enrique Murciano - 1:07 "Si, podemos" - 1:17
Maya Rubin - 1:08 "כן אנו יכולים (Qen Annu Yecholim)" (Hebrew)
Esthero - 1:10
Eric Balfour - 1:23
Nicole Scherzinger - 1:30
Taryn Manning - 1:40
Amber Valletta - 1:52
Auden McCaw (in Valetta's arms) - 1:52
Kelly Hu - 1:52
Adam Rodríguez - 1:56 "Sí se puede"
Eric Christian Olsen - 2:02
Sarah Wright - 2:02
Shoshannah Stern (American Sign Language) - 2:05
Ed Kowalczyk (guitar) - 2:19
Fonzworth Bentley (violin) - 2:38
Amaury Nolasco - 3:24
Hill Harper - 3:27
Nick Cannon - 3:36
Herbie Hancock (piano) - 3:41
Johnathon Schaech - 3:45
Austin Nichols - 3:50
Tracee Ellis Ross - 4:00
Fred Goldring (guitar) - 4:03
Anson Mount
Alfonso Ribeiro
Cliff Collins
Vera Farmiga

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: February 2, 2008 at 3:57 am
Author: WeCan08

Length: 00:04:30
Rating: 4.67
Views: 13937265

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Video Comments:
Shootgun01 (November 21, 2008 at 11:16 pm)
Lol i'm sorry but this is ridiculously funny. idk why... gay.
Joshwwwww (November 21, 2008 at 11:01 pm)
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME HE IS GOING TO Change the nation he said he is going to bring change but just because he has alot of people from the clinton admiisration dosent mean he is going to do it the same way he is diffrent from clinton IN ALOT OF ways
ReggaeDewey (November 21, 2008 at 11:00 pm)
Barack Obamas is only 12.5% black meaning his father was only 1/4 black... and 75% arab...
Joshwwwww (November 21, 2008 at 10:58 pm)
thhank you someone finnaly makes sense
nehozack (November 21, 2008 at 10:57 pm)
do you think that the republican party figured out that he had a forged or non-exsistant birth certificate? If you say no, what does that say about the competence of the party? If you say yes, does that mean they wanted him to win. Logic 101.
shescreameddbang (November 21, 2008 at 10:55 pm)
Yes we can.
JEREMIAHWAZABULLFROG (November 21, 2008 at 10:54 pm)
"We cant expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they wake up one day to find that they have Communism."~ Nikita Kruschev
funtimez420 (November 21, 2008 at 10:50 pm)
you are right people are led along by a faulse since of hope that Obama sells and he sells it well. All politicians are fake.
mrcole92 (November 21, 2008 at 10:49 pm)
Yes we can.
phillyphan302 (November 21, 2008 at 10:45 pm)
its funny how black people think hes there president, "first black president" hes not even black, hes half kenyan and half irish, hes more white than black, fuckin ignorant ass people. fuck obama and any other politician,