{"id":95,"date":"2008-02-29T11:56:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T11:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/02\/new-william-obama-video.html"},"modified":"2008-02-29T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T11:56:48","slug":"new-william-obama-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/02\/new-william-obama-video.html","title":{"rendered":"New Will.i.am Obama Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Like the last one, this one is Gap-Style cheesey, majorly cringe-inducing (more than the first), yet sorta catchy and somehow tugs at the heartstrings (less than the first). Maybe it&#8217;s just cuz I&#8217;m a triple cancer. But posts have been absent this week so here&#8217;s mine.<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">By the way, we are hosting a Texas vote-calling party via <a href=\"http:\/\/pol.moveon.org\/event\/events\/event.html?event_id=43767&amp;id=\" target=\"_blank\">Moveon.org<\/a> this Sunday in Williamsburg from 4-7pm. Online RSVPS are getting pretty full, but jump on in and come by. <a href=\"http:\/\/pol.moveon.org\/event\/events\/event.html?event_id=43767&amp;id=\">Do rsvp at this link<\/a> por favor. At least a half dozen <a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.com\" target=\"_blank\">IDPers <\/a>will be there. We&#8217;ll give you some drinks, then you call Texas and tell them to vote and caucus (they do both there) for the big O on Tuesday. You need a beer in you to talk to Texans (or juice or soda), which we will provide. If Obama wins Texas, which he&#8217;s close to doing,  it&#8217;s over, unless Hillary holds all 800 superdelegates hostage and makes them watch Ellen Degeneres reruns over and over until they promise to ignore the will of the people and support her.<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Now here&#8217;s the heart-string tuggin&#8217;, cringe-inducing new video from Will.i.am (since he&#8217;s doing such good political work now, I ought to refrain from this paranthetical aside where I remind everyone that Black Eyed Peas are possibly the biggest example of a once-talented-group-going-mainstream-cotton-candy-sugar-coated-fluff- sellouts in the history of Hip Hop Music &#8212; how do you go from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CXKxs8Ge_9g\">My Humps<\/a>&#8221; to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY\">Yes We Can<\/a>&#8220;???? &#8211; cognitive dissonance much???&#8211; but i couldn&#8217;t refrain). Sorry. At least it was just a parenthetical.<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><iframe title=\"We Are The Ones song by will.i.am - Obama\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ghSJsEVf0pU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the last one, this one is Gap-Style cheesey, majorly cringe-inducing (more than the first), yet sorta catchy and somehow tugs at the heartstrings (less than the first). Maybe it&#8217;s just cuz I&#8217;m a triple cancer. But posts have been absent this week so here&#8217;s mine. By the way, we are hosting a Texas vote-calling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Will.i.am Obama Video - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/02\/new-william-obama-video.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Will.i.am Obama Video - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Like the last one, this one is Gap-Style cheesey, majorly cringe-inducing (more than the first), yet sorta catchy and somehow tugs at the heartstrings (less than the first). 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