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we vs he
By contrast, I don't like this video at all--I can hardly believe the same people are behind it. The music is cheesy and the singers are flat, but mostly there's a vast difference between "yes we can" and the simple chanting of the candidate's name. The first motto is about the power of many people, working together for the common good: "Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change." The second, well, it's a call for the power of a leader. It's a dream of a demagogue.
There's something to be said for the new video's structure, built around the individual and more concrete hopes of many voices, where the other one was constructed entirely out of the candidate's words. And some of those voices say what I want to hear--"he's gonna be our president, he's gonna speak for us--'cause we put him there", and not least Obama's own reiteration that "we are the ones we've been waiting for". But that constant shouting of his name raises all my hackles. I guess I'll never be a really good follower.
There's something to be said for the new video's structure, built around the individual and more concrete hopes of many voices, where the other one was constructed entirely out of the candidate's words. And some of those voices say what I want to hear--"he's gonna be our president, he's gonna speak for us--'cause we put him there", and not least Obama's own reiteration that "we are the ones we've been waiting for". But that constant shouting of his name raises all my hackles. I guess I'll never be a really good follower.