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2 years ago
Yes, We Can! - Si, Se Puede!

Song & video, featuring a star cast, by Will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas. Inspired by Barack Obama's 'Yes We Can' speech.

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02/05/08 Note: Please keep the comments civil and try to keep the conversation to issues. No personal attacks or pejoratives. We'd prefer to keep the comments, and dialogue, open and flowing.

Most importantly, no matter who your preferred candidate is, get out and vote!

02/06/08 Note: Please see note from 02/05/08.
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Official song site:
yeswecansong.com

Obama Campaign Site:
barackobama.com/

Yes we can what?:
barackobama.com/issues/

Is it true that he....?:
factcheck.barackobama.com/

Be a part of the video at:
hopeactchange.com

-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.



Celebrities featured include: Jesse Dylan, Will.i.am, Common, Scarlett Johansson, Tatyana Ali, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Kate Walsh, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Adam Rodriquez, Kelly Hu, Amber Valetta, Eric Balfour, Aisha Tyler, Nicole Scherzinger and Nick Cannon

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  • Andrea Valverde 1 year ago
    This is inspiring.
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  • Pete Bell 1 year ago
    Amazing work! Thank you for your creativity! We should work together some time. Pete
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  • Mark Barner 10 months ago
    thanks for the lyric... what a great speach - it's a kind of speach you only thought would be in old american movies where a president becomes a hero - that is already what obama is to me - and im from denmark - it makes no sense but he is just so charming and truthfully!
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