I want to talk about the video introduction that proceeded Obama's speech last night. I found it to be 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. And that's why I'm creating this post. Let's drown this thing with recommendations. Get it to the top of the Diary lists and drive as many people as we can to watch this. It does an amazing job of combating the non-sense the GOP has been throwing at our candidate...
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It has all the proper qualities for that. 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.
For Americans who believe they don't know Barack Obama, I can't imagine a better introduction to the man. This video has sadly only been viewed a few thousand times as of now. We need to make it our goal to put it in the hundreds of thousands. We should be promoting this to our friends, family, and co-workers.
If you think this video does a great job of humanizing, humbling, and introducing Obama to voters who still feel wary of him, then please, Recommend this post and encourage your friends to do the same. We can lift this thing off the ground and get it dominating the internet. And isn't that a large part of what the blogosphere is for? So, please, send everyone you can to this diary and let's make sure that every American watches this video.
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