It is indeed sweet.

This will really curb that whole celebrity meme. *Sigh*

......growing up in the late 1970s, I would score the lyrics an A+, the video B+; the only contrary thing would be the MLK cameo (I think if Obama does become POTUS, I think that would say more about our society (given its history) than may be what it would say about Obama, wouldn't you think)

Here's my favorite: “You’re the best”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0F9sZeESus

And may be too we're all sick of hearing about V.P. speculations by now…....but it's also been a slow news day, having both candidates' schedule today, blank........so, I will revert back with my original prediction (& hope) of Sen Evan Bayh for these reasons: Sen Bayh is also about the future; he can air-brush over his Iraq vote and has foreign policy creds; offers a more conservative counter balance to Obama's liberal propensities; and Sen Bayh & his family make for a darn good photo opportunity...

LMAO! as they say.

I made it to 2:21 before I had to turn it off. I'm sorry: what group of voters that Obama does not already have in his pocket is this supposed to appeal to? I see MJ's got that "Matthews tingle" going up his leg, but I don't think the independents, PUMAs, undecided evangelicals, Catholics, or older white men are going to be terribly impressed.

Dislike it immensely. Kinda creepy cultist folks swaying to and fro/back and forth praising their "leader."

I don't think Barack wanted or anticipated this kind of crap. Creeps me out.

cute, Elizabeth2...but in his pocket or in the voting booth, this video ain't gonna do it.

as for "the Reps and their celebrity ads," I'd say they don't need to do another one, since Obama's campaign is kinda doing it for them.

I too am old, I also lived thru the '60s, even worked on the McGovern campaign. idealism and kumbaya didn't work for Dems then, and it isn't going to now.

if what pol360 says is true, that's great. Biden joining the ticket would be one of the few smart things the Obama campaign has done recently, in terms of actually trying to WIN the election. but Forest Whittaker swaying back and forth to His Master's Voice is not the way to go.

It's a sweet, albeit corny, video. Is it really helpful to have Barry Manilow and Cyndi Lauper campaigning for you? As far the ancient senior citizen vote is concerned, Manilow might not hurt.

The idea of Moses not making it to the Promised Land... that is deeply affecting for those steeped both in the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic tradition and the civil rights movement... it seems imperative for Obama to link his campaign to these broader themes of redemption without falling into a sort of hokey exploitation of MLK. The video does lay bare exactly those greater historical issues that are at stake in this election.

The repugnant ones think they can make a negative image of thousands of people showing up to see someone they support or admire in huge sports stadiums or NASCAR racetracks? That should surely come as a surprise to all the thousands of Joe-Sixpack sports fans who regularly fill those stadiums built just for them and their "cults." I swear, if Barack Obama and the Democrats don't turn Panama John and the Geriatric Old Poops into hotdogs-and-beer-hating elitists over this stupid concept, then America really has become too stupid to stipulate?

I mean, anyone care to have a beer with a privileged draft-dodging Connecticut/Texas Yale-alumni princeling who swears he doesn't drink alcoholic beverages?

JOE BIDEN IS MY KIND OF GUY
HE'LL HELP BARACK MAKE MCCAIN CRY
HE KNOWS THE VALUE OF ISRAEL TO US
THOSE OF YOU DON'T LIKE IT-- CAN SUCK PUSS

Jewish Daily Forward, March, 2007:

Delaware Senator Joseph Biden rejected the notion that the U.S. needs to become a more neutral player in the Middle East, while criticizing the White House as uninvolved and ineffective. He spoke to the Forward for 45 minutes over oatmeal at Manhattan’s Regency Hotel yesterday morning,

“In my 34 year career, I have never wavered from the notion that the only time progress has ever been made in the Middle East is when the Arab nations have known that there is no daylight between us and Israel,” said Biden, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations committee. “So the idea of being an ‘honest broker’ is not, I think, like some of my Democratic colleagues call for, is not the answer. It is being the smart broker, it is being the smart partner.”

Biden, a dark-horse Democratic presidential contender known for straight talk (and the occassional gaffe), has long been a strong supporter of Israel in Congress and is now aggressively courting Jewish voters and donors for his 2008 bid. The debate over the U.S.-Israel relationship, meanwhile, has reached a fevered pitch in the wake of last week’s Washington conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee: On Sunday, New York Times columnist Nick Krisof published an op-ed in the paper that argued that the country lacks a serious debate over Israel, and needs to back away from its “crushing embrace” of Israeli hardliners.

Biden argued that the U.S. doesn’t need more distance, but does need to become a more effective, proactive partner for peace.

“We contract our foreign policy, and that is a dangerous situation,” Biden said. “Do you think there’s any reasonable prospect that the Saudis are going to push Hamas to recognize Israel? So now we have a quote unity government and we’re going, ‘Oh my goodness, we have a problem.’”

I don't live in either Israel or America; I don't subscribe to any variety of Single Spook Animism; and therefore I don't give a shit what happens to Israel. Neither will a significant number of Americans once it becomes blindingly clear to them what knee-jerk support of crusading Apartheid Zionism has cost the United States. Still, since I only care to see Social Security last for the remaining few decades of my dwindling lifetime, I'll vote for the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. I have no illusions that my vote will help accomplish anything else of value.

Still, if by some miracle, President Obama gets our "stalwart ally" Israel to deploy its own military at its own expense to Iraq and Afghanistan so that we Americans can withdraw our vaunted Visigoths and stop feeding the Warfare Welfare and Makework Militarism that has ruined us, then perhaps I'll see a real change and possibly believe in it. Otherwise, I only see Barack Obama changing into yet another Republican-Lite clone of the Bawl and Pillory Horror Picture Show, only without the blowjobs. A predictable and predicted change like that, I have no problem whatsoever believing.