“Yes We Can” has had more than 700,000 views on YouTube in the past few days. Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama traverses the music video world with Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas.

Sure, Ted Kennedy is great. But he’s no Scarlett Johansson.

Johansson appears along with John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and others in a song and music video by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas that sets Barack Obama’s words to music.

The celebrities speak and sing Obama’s words, often along with him, as a guitar strums in the background. The refrain is an Obama slogan: “Yes we can.”

The video is likely to appeal to young voters, who tend to favor Obama but traditionally do not vote in large numbers. It was uploaded to YouTube two days ago and has already been viewed nearly 700,000 times.

will.i.am told ABC News on Friday that the speech was inspired by Obama’s speech after the New Hampshire primary.

“It made me reflect on the freedoms I have, going to school where I went to school, and the people that came before Obama like Martin Luther King, presidents like Abraham Lincoln,” he said.

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