Stars Come Out For Obama, Again

Thu, March 06, 2008 - 12:11 PM

will.i.am, Black Eyed Peas frontman and the creator of the viral "Yes We Can" song and video that melded clips of Barack Obama's speeches with music released another pro-Obama video this week.

Like the first video, "We Are The Ones" features celebrities, among them singers Macy Gray and N'dambi, and actors Jessica Alba and Malcom Jamal Warner (Theo!) Against a steady beat and the chanted chorus Obama! Obama!, they talk about why they support the senator from Illinois.



Simon Woods, a Hillary Clinton volunteer, wrote an op-ed for London's Daily Telegraph about the new video. Woods complains that the video is nothing more than celebrities "anointing themselves as "the ones", encouraging their fans to join them, to become part of the "movement", to "change the world"."

He goes on to say that the video epitomizes what he sees as the core problem of Obama's campaign: "the Obama model is about the inauguration speech, and Clinton's is focused on the moment she gets back from the Capitol, sits down at that desk, and starts work."

-- Mark Young