Can Each of Us Make a Difference on Super Tuesday and Everyday?
By Lael
The line between poetry and song lyrics often blurs with the two genres sometimes overlapping. Political rhetoric, however, more often resides in a whole different register. One happy exception to this rule has turned out to be presidential hopeful Barack Obama's speech following his near-victory in the New Hampshire primary which contained such stirring phrases as:
"It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom:
Yes, we can....
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots...
Yes, we can"
These words and their delivery inspired the producer, frontman and songwriter for The Black Eyed Peas known as will.i.am to craft an unusual and inspiring amalgam of pop, politics and personality. The video he made together with director, filmmaker and Bob Dylan scion Jesse Dylan first aired Friday on ABC News Now's "What's the Buzz" and features a range of entertainers including Scarlett Johansson, Tatyana Ali, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Kate Walsh, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Kelly Hu, Adam Rodriquez, Amber Valetta, Eric Balfour, Aisha Tyler and Nick Cannon. Made without input from the Obama camp or the campaign's coordination, the black and white video could be considered a sort of highly polished, celebrity studded grassroots effort.
Obama's words, in the speech and now in song, epitomize the can-do spirit considered by many to be quintessentially American. They also bring to mind Daily Mantra's favorite law, one not encoded in the US Constitution, namely the Law of Attraction. In light of the inescapable nature of this universal principle, the electorate's collective negativity with regard to the political arena (no doubt intensified by the painful scandals and ill considered decisions of the last eight years) is something we would do well to heal and overcome. Like any affirmation of our power, this video by will.i.am and a junior Dylan can help weed habitual negativity out of our consciousness and thereby ameliorate our experience. Its affirmative spirit could even prove healing for an individual consciousness mired in not just in political nay-saying but in personal negativity as well.....
For full story go to link above.
http://www.dailymantra.com
The line between poetry and song lyrics often blurs with the two genres sometimes overlapping. Political rhetoric, however, more often resides in a whole different register. One happy exception to this rule has turned out to be presidential hopeful Barack Obama's speech following his near-victory in the New Hampshire primary which contained such stirring phrases as:
"It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom:
Yes, we can....
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots...
Yes, we can"
These words and their delivery inspired the producer, frontman and songwriter for The Black Eyed Peas known as will.i.am to craft an unusual and inspiring amalgam of pop, politics and personality. The video he made together with director, filmmaker and Bob Dylan scion Jesse Dylan first aired Friday on ABC News Now's "What's the Buzz" and features a range of entertainers including Scarlett Johansson, Tatyana Ali, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Kate Walsh, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Kelly Hu, Adam Rodriquez, Amber Valetta, Eric Balfour, Aisha Tyler and Nick Cannon. Made without input from the Obama camp or the campaign's coordination, the black and white video could be considered a sort of highly polished, celebrity studded grassroots effort.
Obama's words, in the speech and now in song, epitomize the can-do spirit considered by many to be quintessentially American. They also bring to mind Daily Mantra's favorite law, one not encoded in the US Constitution, namely the Law of Attraction. In light of the inescapable nature of this universal principle, the electorate's collective negativity with regard to the political arena (no doubt intensified by the painful scandals and ill considered decisions of the last eight years) is something we would do well to heal and overcome. Like any affirmation of our power, this video by will.i.am and a junior Dylan can help weed habitual negativity out of our consciousness and thereby ameliorate our experience. Its affirmative spirit could even prove healing for an individual consciousness mired in not just in political nay-saying but in personal negativity as well.....
For full story go to link above.
http://www.dailymantra.com
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