I am an Obama fan but I got goosebumps watching this video! I guess I am part of the group who wants to end the Clinton-Bush Dynasty. I don't want McCain or 100 more yrs in Iraq. Yes, we can, Si, se puede! Obama '08

Like David Brooks is some sort of authority on "normal working class voters"??

check out will.i.am comments on this song @ http://www.dipdive.com/ or www.yeswecansong.com Very inspiring!

Obama is a candidate on whom anybody can project their fantasies and desires. He is so vague, general, and nonspecific in his ramblings - articulate as they might be - that his words can be interpreted to mean anything. He is a blank slate, an empty suit that nobody knows anything about.

Like all liberals he is trying to hide from ideas and solutions. "Change" is pretty hazy! It tells me nothing!

It seems that the only way Hillary can win now, is to tear apart the party. Is she so craven as to do so? Well... Yeh!

T.C., Obama has detailed policy positions on numerous issues on his website. He has written two books, the second of which spends a lot of time talking about policy issues. Saying he is vague or calling him a "blank slate" is just intellectual laziness. Do you homework.

Thanks Mike, I should have said, his stump speeches! Basically Obama says, "I’m different, I’m pretty, I promise change, I’m not George Bush." Not much substance there. It might be argued whether his policy papers are substantive .... or not! I can easily see why some think they are nothing more than pablum for the weak-minded.

Hillary’s campaign style, lately, seems to be: "Change your votes everyone! I’m crying on cue again!"

...if you showed up at a, " change we can believe in " rally with a crudely drawn peace sign on a poster, exspect to be tasered...like every democratic candidate for twenty-odd years, He refuses to self-identify with liberal ideology...everybody has a take on the "conservative wing" of the G.O.P. but where's the equivilant "wing" of the donkey party?...

I haven't listened to the Black Eyed Peas. I have heard Obama speak, however, and he is very inspiring. I'm still not voting for him. Why? It takes more than a good presentation to get the job done. No matter what kind of window dressing you put on him, he's for bigger government. If you already don't like what the government is doing, why vote for someone who wants more of it?

The Black Eyed Peas are deplorable -- this nice video doesn't change that fact. John Legend certainly helps.

"[Obama]'s a politician. Not a brave one taking risky positions like Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich, but a mainstream one. He has not been firing up the Senate with stirring Cross-of-Gold-type speeches to end the war. He's a politician so soft and safe, Oprah likes him" -- Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein

Everybody is looking for change and he keeps saying he can make change happen but what are his plans and how will he carry them out. I just don't think anyone can know until they are actually in office how much their hands are tied without the support of the Senate and House. The President doesn't have as much power as everybody thinks. If he does win I hope he can make changes.

That's not quite accurate, Jackie. He says WE can make it happen - not him doing it by himself. That's the whole point of his campaign - getting people energized and involved. The hope is that an energized electorate will prevail over the entrenched lobbyists and other powerful interests that currently control Washington. It's a bit audacious, to borrow Obama's word, but I think it's worth a try.

Wow the crabby conservatives are coming out of the woodwork. Get over it, Obama inspires. Remember when Reagan inspired? Inspiration is a great trait for leaders to possess and it's been a hell of a long time since we've had a president with that talent/ability. It will take an inspirational leader to lead us back to peace and good standing, and out of recession. Why is it that conservatives can admire the inspirational abilities in coaches and religious leaders, but can't see the value in a presidential candidate?

Is it really too much to ask that inspiration come from a record of courage and character instead of from rhetoric?

Sure, Obama is inspiring; sure he talks about change..... but the "we" bit gives him an out, if it doesn’t happen. Change must start at the top. Reagan was inspiring and talked of change. Then he went out and did it. A good argument could be make that he changed the face of the world in his dealings with Marxism.

Maybe the question we ought to be asking is, "What has Obama changed so far?" From a state level, from a federal level? (And maybe we should ask Hillary the same question). A secondary question should be: Is it for the better, or the worse?"

Where is Ronald Reagan's record of courage & character? Good 'ole Ronnie. ;P I'm with Scharton, give me a candidate who inspires hope not the same old same old we've had for years.