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March 27, 2008
The Tide Is Turning
Posted By Bob Cesca
I made the following video for my Huffington Post item this week (without the permission of Roger Waters). Go here for the back story.
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Comments
Superb work, Bob!
Now let's get this out there folks.
Posted by: Sammyscooge
at March 26, 2008 11:14 AM
Wonderful. I dare say Roger would be proud!
Posted by: midad
at March 26, 2008 11:40 AM
Absolutely beautiful. Lovely job, sir. I am going to post this at my blog and at Cogitamus--I hope that's okay.
Cheers,
D.
Posted by: litbrit
at March 26, 2008 12:32 PM
Good work Bob. One question though...why did you mess with the color in the Obama speech segments? Lightening up the blue makes him seem less presidential and lowering the saturation makes his speech look old. Keeping the colors or making them more vibrant would give that part the feeling that he is the future and the rest is the past.
Nit-picky, but when it's good there is no other option.
Posted by: elliot
at March 26, 2008 12:39 PM
Dammit Cesca, you made me sniff. Promptly stolen er, "borrowed" and posted....
Posted by: Paddy
at March 26, 2008 12:43 PM
I was dealing with a really blown-out YouTube video capture, so I had to do something both fix it and to give it some artistic weight.
Posted by: Bob_Cesca
at March 26, 2008 01:03 PM
That works for me then.
Posted by: elliot
at March 26, 2008 01:21 PM
Bob,
That was stellar. Great work.
Hillary, please move a long.
Posted by: KidDynamo0
at March 26, 2008 01:27 PM
Dear Sir:
Here via HuffPost. Am stunned. Floored. Nearly tingly.
Thank you for sharing this. I have spammed it hither and yon.
Posted by: Cimmerians
at March 26, 2008 01:38 PM
Oh, nicely done, Bob!
Posted by: ceu
at March 26, 2008 02:07 PM
Bob-AWESOME! Thank you!
Posted by: natashacrk
at March 26, 2008 02:14 PM
It was a superb statement and I applaud you for it.
Obama represents a way of healing a country badly in need of it. He should not be looked up to as a kind of savior but rather a figure who is intelligent, sensitive, sensible and ethical.
After five years of war, 4,000 US deaths, uncounted Iraqi deaths, destruction of our own infrastructure in New Orleans that is not yet repaired, tax cuts that favored the most affluent and the practical rape of the Constitution, we need repair. We need to convalesce. We need to find our way back to a world where we are no longer viewed as werewolves on speed.
Posted by: Karenfern
at March 26, 2008 05:00 PM
Thanks Bob for that great video! Well done! :)
Suzie-Q
Posted by: Suzie-Q
at March 26, 2008 07:36 PM
Oh, beautiful moving video. I teared up again watching it. I'll post it to my homepage for inspiration.
Fracking awesome, Bob.
Posted by: Donise
at March 26, 2008 08:26 PM
Great stuff. "Favorited" on my YouTube.
Posted by: vet75
at March 26, 2008 08:45 PM
Right on, Bob! You always have the best contributions to Huffington Post & love the Goddamn Awesome Blog, Go! as well. Thank you so much for all you do!
Posted by: Tony
at March 26, 2008 10:46 PM
Wow! Bob that video is so moving and inspiring it is as good as the one by will.i.am but with a different flavor. I love it and it broought me to tears and gave me re-newed faith and hope that Obama will make it through. I truly believe what Bill Richardson said," Obama is a once in a lifetime leader", and this is OUR TIME..all AMERICANS... I truly believe that Hillary will continue to be exposed for the LIAR she is, I use to love the CLINTONS and what they stood for and now that I know how dirty they play, I will NEVER vote for them EVER again, they morally are against everything I stand for. I dont see why they aren't being MORE exposed for the liars they are. SHe will do anything to win, including trying to DESTROY obama so she wins, or that he looks so bad he loses to McCain giving her another go at this. I hope people are not fooled, especially white people who may be prone to vote against Obama because of their fears instead of their head and hearts!!! WAKE UP AMERICA WE HAVE BEEN LIED TO FOR EIGHT YEARS BY BUSH !!! PLEASE SEE THROUGH THE CLINTON"S LIES AND MESS OR WE WILL BE UP FOR ANOTHER EIGHT YEARS OF THE SAME, BUT DIFFERENT PARTY, WE NEED A CHANGE AND WE ARE THE CHANGE WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR , BY CASTING OUR VOTES FOR THE TRUE CHANGE CANDIDATE IN EVERY WAY THAT MATTERS!!!
Posted by: Citadelgrrl05
at March 27, 2008 01:58 AM
Bob, what can I say? AWESOME! I've borrowed it for my blog, if you don't mind.
Thanks.
Posted by: Broadway Carl
at March 27, 2008 08:20 AM
Thank you SO MUCH for this.
Sitting here, in my office, I wept. Maybe I wear my heart on my sleeve, but I wept. Silently, to myself, in both despair and delight.
The day that Barack Hussein Obama is elected president, I will fall to my knees and cry like a baby and I'm not ashamed of that in the least.
Videos like this, and those by Will.I.Am, provide a conduit for us all. To think of all the effort.. the hundreds of dollars, the hundreds of hours knocking on doors, the hundreds of phone calls to each and every state, near and far, big and small. All done thousands of times over by thousands of volunteers all over these United States.
These videos are inspired pieces of work, as fitting to our times as cave drawings were to cave men. We're an audio-video world and you're speaking in the modern tongue and it cuts right down to the bone.
I'm rambling, and I'm sorry for that, but what I'm trying to say is, things like this bring it full-circle for the volunteers out there with calloused feet and callous opposition. It's the currency of inspiration.
Posted by: Encoderer
at March 27, 2008 12:17 PM
Incredible music video! It is an amazingly accurate depiction of what the Barack Obama campaign is all about. Thank you for taking the time to put it together. The music/song was a perfect accompaniment for your images. gave me goosebumps and welled up with tears. Excellent! Now we need to make sure the rest of the world gets to see this amazing piece of work.
Posted by: Beca1
at March 28, 2008 09:41 AM
The message this video exposes is what helps give those of us who have lost hope for our country a wee bit of light at the end of this long tunel. Shall we dare hope? I think this time, even for this here cynic, we shall hope that the tide is trully turning. Thank you for this excellent piece!
Posted by: Beca1
at March 28, 2008 09:55 AM
Bob! moveon.org is looking for someone to make a 30 sec. video ad for the Obama Camapaign. They (moveon.org) will award $20K to the winning video ad. How about submitting this? not sure if the time req. is right but if it works send it! I can't imagine anybody toping this one. Check it out at moveon.org
Peace,
B
Posted by: Beca1
at March 28, 2008 10:03 AM
Spectacular. I've posted it over at Eclectablog.
Posted by: Eclectablog
at March 28, 2008 05:24 PM
Excellent work, Bob. I'm awe struck and not surprised at the same time.
Won't/can't SOMEONE, ANYONE make clinton GO AWAY?!?
We The People don't want that in the White House for another term. I used to believe I'd vote for any democrat, no matter who or what in order to end rethug rule. But she's a thug, just another thug. I don't think I could live comfortable with self knowing I cast a vote for another thug in MY white House, dem or rethug. Sorry, but she did that to me, she did it to herself.
GOD! MAKE HER GO AWAY!
siri@legitgov.org
Posted by: siri
at March 30, 2008 10:51 AM
I've been off-line/on vacation. So which website do I return to first? The answer is here, this video. Fantastic job, Mr. Cesca.
I'm a devoted reader of yours, Bob. I hope you never tire of hearing that.
Please pass me a hankie -- my eyes are a bit wet.
Posted by: peonyharp
at April 1, 2008 12:32 PM
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