On the subject of that “Yes We Can” Barack Obama-boosting clip, directed by Jesse Dylan, there is this From the Jerusalem Post: Israeli actress supplies Hebrew for Obama video.

“We just thought it would sound nice to have Hebrew,” said Dylan, whose father, the Hall of Fame singer Bob Dylan, became a legend with his politically themed music.

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[Maya] Rubin, whose Hebrew line is now being used on pro-Obama campaign signs, said the video has played well with Jewish people she knows.

“People love it,” she says of her appearances in the video. “It was very subtle, which I think is even more cool.”

The fledgling actress was born in Jerusalem, served in the Israeli army and moved to the United States in 1998 to pursue her career.

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She convinced Will.i.am, who has cited Anne Frank as one of his inspirations for the video, and Dylan to use her on the video based on her work on an unreleased Jewish rap album called Chutzpah she cut with some friends.

Speaking of her desire to be in the pro-Obama video, she said, “I believe what he says and think he is an inspiring politician. He’s probably one of the most inspiring politicians that I have seen in my lifetime.”

Though Rubin, who returns to Israel about once a year, studied political science at Ramat Aviv University in Tel Aviv, she says her knowledge of the other candidates in the presidential election is a little thin and that she is not fully steeped in Obama’s policies.

But she trusts him on Israel based on what she has read from information sheets she was given by Obama-ites.

“It sounds like he is aware,” she said.

“It sounds like he is aware.” That, I think, is the slogan that should be printed up and plastered on banners at all Barack Obama events from here on out. It’s perfect.

BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT
It sounds like he is aware.

As for the rest of it: Isn’t it just heartwarming to see Bob Dylan being dismissed one more time as someone who achieved his legend with politically themed music? Some things will clearly never change.

And who knew that Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who died in a Nazi death-camp at age 15, had inspired Will.i.am to make this video of rich and beautiful celebrities weirdly echoing and singing the words of Deval Patrick Barack Obama? I’ll be darned if I noticed the influence, but maybe it was more like she came to him in a dream and pitched the concept.

Did someone mention chutzpah?

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