Worth Repeating... Yes We Can

I’ve seen this video four or five times over the last few days and I was and continue to be really impressed by it.  Very impressive indeed!  Artistically, it’s beautifully created.  And the collection of elements reminds me of listening to the old recordings of Martin Luther King’s speeches, or an old black preacher with the congregation on the edge of their seats.  The use of language is beautiful, and the positive message is perfectly flawless.  Bravo!  Certainly this video is as much propaganda as any other political message but it is a departure from the tone in the political scene in recent years, and for that I must tip my hat!

I’ve grown so tired of the argumentative tone, the strident defensiveness and the general disrespectful delivery of speeches from the current administration.  Add in the wholesale slaughter of the language, an inability to see fact from fiction, and indefensible positions on issues that do and don’t matter to the American people, and I arrive at an impatience for it to all be over.  A new chapter is certainly in order.  Most completely!  It is time for change. 

And for a full text of the video visit Kelly’s blog where the whole thing is written out for a slower digestion.  (It works well slowly also!)  Good stuff!  I think it is also worth noting that this video was only posted on Feb 2nd on YouTube and has already been viewed well over a million times, been favorited by over 6,000 people and gotten well over 5,000 comments.  So clearly this work is touching a grassroots nerve...  it touched me anyway.