So. . .I don't know what this is about. I know what it is: a video of a speech by Barack Obama overlaid by video of musicians and actors turning the speech into a song. It's very high quality. It's got a wide rage of stars (ScarJo, will.i.am (NOT Wyclef, whoops, on second viewing), John Legend, Chase from House, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and more).



I just. . .can't find any further information on it than that. It appears to be made by someone called Mr. Dippy, who has a myspace that points to the website where this song can be found in higher quality: dipdive.com, or yeswecansong.com. A perfunctory search on Obama's site had nothing on this video, and YouTube isn't helpful, either. It's just weird, because as cool a campaign as as this is--how is there no information about it anywhere? Is it going to run on TV? Is it someone's idea of what "viral video" means? Did Obama even know this was going on? How did they get Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?

So, so many questions.

ETA: Ohhhhh. Here's a bit on the ABC political blog that explains it. It appears that, in typical disorganized musician fashion, there was no coordination with the Obama campaign, which is too bad, as this would have been a great ad to run during the Superbowl.

Yeah, okay, so I'm Posty McPosterson today. Sorry about that. But I just saw these images over on the DailyKos (yes, I know) and I had to share. Because the idea that one of these kids:



is going to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States of America is just too amazingly awesome.

You know, I've been thinking about this lately in terms of Darwin's evolution: he believed that changed happened bit by imperceptible bit, over centuries, millennia, eons. More recently, some evolutionists have argued that species change does in fact happen in great, relatively immediate, paradigm-shifting fits and starts. And this--it seemed like it would forever be a parade of near-elderly white men, until suddenly it wasn't.

I mean, if I were a sociology major or still an active Jane Goodall fangirl, I'd give you something more/better than that, but that's what I've got tonight. I've just been thinking about it, is all.