An American Prayer

[Hutzpa]

Run time: 05:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVi4rUzf-0Q   Posted on YouTube: August 21, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 22, 2008 By DU Member: Hutzpa Views on DU: 6316

 
An exclusive from Dave Stewart and the rest of the stars, very touching...

I love it...

Please rate this video at YouTube

[patrice]

1. "This IS the church you can't see"

Amen!

[stuntcat]

57. my favorite part too

I need to get a little hope back for the world. I need it so bad.

[unapatriciated]

2. Beautiful

"Remember Me" and mine.
Because it's not about me it's about them.

[CitizenPatriot]

3. I guess I'm losing it

but I cried like a baby watching this.

So uplifting and this is what we are fighting for....the American Spirit. She will rise again and include all people regardless of color, sex, sexual preference, financial status, class, etc. She will be mighty in her compassion and generosity and hope:-)

[stlsaxman]

11. so did i.... first i thought- "well well another cornball video...." but soon saw the beauty in it

and wept.

[Mother Of Four]

4. K and R-

Post a comment and rate it please-

And I cried too. It made me choke up, and I couldn't hold it in.

Bless America.

[helderheid]

5. If I could give it 1000 recs I would. I am going to post this on my Myspace and Facebook pages

[Hutzpa]

6. Thanks!!

:thumbsup:



K&R




:kick:

[denem]

7. If you get to the top of mountain - remember us

Remember us in 2008, giving our hearts, our minds, our time and our tears. This song will last a long long time.

Wow. Just wow.

[EnviroBat]

8. So I'm watching this and getting choked up. It never fails, someone

walks into my office, and I have to make up some story about rag-weed or some such. Yes, this IS the church nobody can see. The only church that really matters anymore...

[babylonsister]

9. I love this-thank you! nt

[butterfly77]

10. Love it!

[Hope And Change]

12. Love this video.Thanks for posting!

[FirstLight]

13. YA!

I didn't cry till the words of the Statue of Liberty were sung... "Give me your poor. your huddled masses, yearning to be free..."

DAMN! SO MUCH is at stake this time...can we do it? can Light triumph over darkness that pretends to be right?


I hope so...and so do my kids! :cry:

i need a hug today, feel that it is all in vain, especially when fellow DUers are attacking me over stuff that should be part of my FREEDOM.... aren't we all on the same side? so much anger and hate, so little time to heal!

[CitizenPatriot]

15. here's a hug

I feel the same way-- I got attacked here yesterday twice for saying something about McCain not getting the average american:-( I felt the darth vader force for sure:-)

It is all gonna be OK. Watch Obama from Pa yesterday or Va, wherever he was -- he kicked some a$$.

You cried at the same part I did. I just broke down sobbing, thinking of all of the people in this country who don't have a voice and need our compassion and help. And people in other countries as well...

We are all on the same side. and everytime we fight about some stupid thing the media drummed up to distract us from the REAL issues, we lose. But, we are too smart for that. And we care too much. We will overcome our own weaknesses and come together as an awesome force for change.

((( journalgrrrl))))

[LiberalLovinLug]

14. So moving

I had a tear or two as well. Wouldn't it be great if this song was a hit on commercial radio, or at least played, like that's going to happen.
We can still get the YouTube count up. Thanks Dave Stewart and all the other artists shown. Its funny how some pop up that you wouldn't expect. Love ya Pamela
Hey it's only because she's from my neck of the woods ;)

[yellerpup]

16. This gives me HOPE!

K&R! We have to help him get to the top of the mountain. I Believe we can do it. YES WE CAN! :dem: :kick: :dem:

P.S. Hugs to anyone who needs them. :hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug::hug:

[FrenchieCat]

17. Awe Man!

Error: You've already recommended that thread.

[silverweb]

18. Gorgeous.

Smiles, tears, and sniffles... all at the same time.

[IndyOp]

19. OMG! My local field organizer is in the video - 5 seconds in...

There is a picture of 3 guys -- Sean, Iain, and Jeff -- they are at the Indiana University, Bloomington Rally for Obama from last April/May.

Iain is still here working his ass off for Obama daily and Sean and Jeff are on Obama staff elsewhere in the nation.

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

20. This picked me up big time.

[AzDar]

21. The last 7 years have been HARD, no? Must've been...'cause that just made me sob,

and I'm generally not the type of chick who sobs while watching musical numbers.

GObama!

[Hekate]

22. Damn, made me cry like a baby. We've been such a long time in Bush-Cheney Hell...

Sometimes it seems like there's no hope left at all.

This is a beautiful and soulful number, truly a prayer for the very soul of our nation.

Say, wasn't that a shot of Arlington West in there?

Hekate

[givemebackmycountry]

24. Well, that just turned me into a bawling ball of jello...

I live in Central Florida (Winter Park) and I've decided this week that I will NOT be afraid anymore.
SO...
I have started to wear my BARTCOP "Worst President Ever" T-shirts and my OBAMA 08 - T -shirts everywhere.
I get a lot of strange looks, but at 6'4" and 265, not many people want to get in my face.
I'd say the reaction is generally mixed.
I get a lot of sly nods of approval, and I always smile back.
And for those that decide they have enough balls to engage me in a "discussion" they get the evil eye.
They usually turn and run.

I have HOPE you see.
And HOPE is a very good thing.

I learned that from the Shawshank Redemption.

And now it's time for OUR REDEMPTION.

Let's get 'em.

[zippy890]

23. wonderful. thanks

loved it,

:dem:

[Ichingcarpenter]

25. Lyrics of Song..... this song was moving

This is the time to finish what you started
And this is no time to dream
This is the room

We can turn off the dark tonight
Maybe then we might see
American Prayer
American Prayer

And this is the ground
That keeps our feet from getting wet
And this is the sky over our head
And what you see depends on where you stand
And how you jump will tell you where you're gonna land

American Prayer
American Prayer

My oh my
Couldn't get much higher
Lets not kick out the darkness
Make the lights brighter
And these are the hands
What are we gonna build with them?

This is the church you can't see
Give me your tired, your poor and huddled masses
You know they're yearning to breathe free
This is my American Prayer
American Prayer
American Prayer

When you get to the top of the mountain
Will you tell me what you see
If you get to the top of the mountain
Remember me




LIST OF GUESTS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Dave Stewart
Forest Whitaker
Amy Keys
Macy Gray
Jason Alexander
Colbie Caillat
Whoopi Goldberg
Joss Stone
Buju Banton
Ann Marie Calhoun
Barry Manilow
Linda Perry
Cyndi Lauper
Sergio Mendes
Herbie Hancock
Mike Bradford
Margaret Cho
Speech
Joan Baez
Daedelus
Pamela Anderson
Peter & Gordon
Sierra Swan
Nadirah X
Perez Hilton

[janet118]

26. I pray that Barack will be my president . . .

and plan to work my ass off to make it so.

[chat_noir]

27. LIST OF GUESTS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:

Dave Stewart
Forest Whitaker
Amy Keys
Macy Gray
Jason Alexander
Colbie Caillat
Whoopi Goldberg
Joss Stone
Buju Banton
Ann Marie Calhoun
Barry Manilow
Linda Perry
Cyndi Lauper
Sergio Mendes
Herbie Hancock
Mike Bradford
Margaret Cho
Cindy Gomez
Speech
Joan Baez
Daedelus
Pamela Anderson
Peter & Gordon
Sierra Swan
Nadirah X
Perez Hilton



I was so moved. The tears started to flow with MLK's clip.

[tpsbmam]

28. Thank you.....

from a middle-aged classical music geek who was straining to think of who some of them were. LOL

[tpsbmam]

29. Exquisite. Like so many here, it made me well up a little. n/t

[Cybergata]

30. WOW n/t

[Plucketeer]

31. A prayer this atheist can believe in

Yes, if you get to the top of the mountain.......

[proud2BlibKansan]

32. kick

[babsbunny]

33. Powerful!

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[Rose Siding]

34. What a pleasure to see.

Thanks for posting that. That's a language common to so many, isn't it?

[WillyT]

35. Yes !!!

:bliss:

:hi:

[northofdenali]

36. Ok, so now I'm crying. My dear God, what HOPE can do!!!

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.
Anne Lamott

Headed for YouTUbe to rate.

[Booster]

37. Damn, wish this could be seen by everyone in the U.S. Thank

God for YouTube.

[txwhitedove]

38. K&R, I cried too. Beautiful video.

[aaronbees]

39. Beautiful lyrics

Gets me fired up, even if teary eyed! :patriot:

[Just-plain-Kathy]

40. Wow!!... "Barack the Vote"... n/t

[Tutonic]

41. Wow Joan Baez!

[djcrestone]

42. Me Cry!

I'm on Paxil.....and this is the first thing that has made me cry in years!

[hisownpetard]

53. Hahahahaaa!

:thumbsup: :hi:

[hisownpetard]

54. Barry Manilow looked like he could hardly open his mouth.

After his latest surgery, you could bounce a quarter off his face!

[ClayZ]

43. Thank You! K and R

[DAMANgoldberg]

44. K&R

This video needs to be played between the end of Al Gore's speech and the introduction of Sen. Barack Obama!
I haven't been moved by a music video and song in at least 15 years.

[laylah]

45. What a beautiful video!

"...the church you can't see". Amazing! Thanks for sharing this! :hug:

[1Hippiechick]

46. @YouTube, give 5 stars, comment favorably, and add to FAVORITES - get this out there! n/t

[Willo]

47. K&R!

[Mad_Dem_X]

48. Wow!

Very inspiring. Damn, that made me cry!

[KaryninMiami]

49. There I go again- crying over a video.

Beautiful. Obama- Biden.

[Waiting For Everyman]

50. "I may not get there with you... "

I remember that speech - it was "one of those moments" you just KNOW at the time. So good to see Joan in the video.

Rated. Favorited. Myspaced.

[stuntcat]

51. YAY Cyndi and Barry!

omg I'm corny, whenever people all sing together it makes me cry :cry:

[AwakeAtLast]

52. Crying like a baby.....

Happy tears of hope and this video captures it beautifully!

Great video!


Can this be the DU Election theme song?!? :D


:bounce: :bounce:

[AlbertCat]

55. Lovely

But I hope we have more than a prayer going for us.

[left of center]

56. very moving video

It hits home how Obama really reflects what America is about- a melting pot where people are lifted up!!!

And it certainly helps having the words of Martin Luther King thrown in!

[IndyOp]

58. Kicking so I can find it. (n/t)

[Hutzpa]

59. K&R - for those that might have missed it.....

needed to hear this today....its been a looong day..