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I'm with seamonkey and tinmanic on this. The first will.i.am video, in turning a speech into song, was shades of Bob Marley's "war," which did a similar trick with a 1963 speech by Haile Selassie to the U.N.
This chanting thing with celebrities sometimes unsurely saying what they want for their country just plays into way too many negative stereotypes of Obama's supporters as pampered cultists, which is actually all very far off the mark. And it lacks any element of the uplifting that was so present in the first effort.
It doesn't dissuade me from my choice to support Obama, any more than the earlier will.i.am video persuaded me to support him in the first place. As mentioned above by others, this campaign, despite the media storyline, is not about style over substance. But from a critical standpoint, this is not so good.
