I want to talk about the video introduction that proceeded Obama's speech last night.  It was a very personal, disarming, humanizing video which provided the viewer a sense of intimacy with the candidate who has continually suffered the baseless analysis that he is a mystery to voters.  In fact, I felt the introductory video to Obama's speech was so effective that it deserves to be pushed into viral distribution.  Sadly, it has only been viewed a few thousand times thus far.  We should make it our goal to push that to a few hundred thousand times.

It has all the proper qualities for viral distribution.  It's a new way of looking at Obama, not with any lofty rhetoric, but as a man telling his story and the story of his family, revealing in one fell swoop those events that influenced him at a very early age.  I think the video works on all levels.  The narration is fantastic, carrying just the right tone, rhythm and cadence. 

For their part, Michelle and Barack Obama talk about their courtship the way a couple might tell such a story to close friends and family while they still manage to tie it into the values that Obama holds, and by doing so, the reasons he's now running for president.  To see this video get lost to the bowels of the internet, never to be seen again would be a crime.  So I'm reposting it here, and encourage anyone who missed it to watch it in its entirety, and to then email it along to your friends, or post it on your Facebook profile.  And don't forget to recommend this post so we can give it as much exposure as possible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL0KxjeKlrM

Thanks,

Big Blue, The Left Anchor