I was just surfing the net tonight and came upon this video. It’s a couple months old and was made by will.i.am after Obama gave his speech in NH. But I thought it perfectly summed up why there has been such a seemingly sweeping infatuation with Obama (although the polls still show that it’s an awfully tight race between him and McCain). I’ll hopefully be able to do something during the RNC too.

Once again, I want to preface this entry by saying that I have not decided yet who my vote is going to be going for. Granted I live in Illinois and my vote is pretty much not going to matter as Obama is gonna win Illinois in a landslide. I still feel it’s important to go out and vote for who I feel would be the better president.

Before show the clip, I wanted to encourage everyone to go out and do a little bit of research to find out what they stand for. This is the guy that’s going to be running our country. Whoever our next president is gonna be, he’s going to be making foreign policies that will affect our relationship with this world. He’s gonna be making social policies that will affect our society. And if you could care less about these things, remember that he’s gonna be making economic policies that will affect your pocketbooks, as well as making healthcare policies that can affect your possible future well-being. So go out and see who you agree with more and base your decision on that, not just the raw emotions that this clip might bring out in you please. I have to say all of this because I do think that this ending of his speech was pretty dang sick.

It doesn’t actually follow the order of how the speech was given, but I’ll give the parts of the transcript according to how they show up on the video.

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 through the darkest of nights.

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 ballot; 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 withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics who will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. 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…

…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 America’s story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea – Yes. We. Can.