Top 10 Campaign Video Moments

From live cable news broadcasts to e-mailed YouTube links, a look at the most unforgettable video from the 2008 campaign

Yes We Can

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No Election 2008 video better distilled the reasons to love, and hate, the candidate it espoused. Meet Barack Obama: the eloquent, passionate voice of hope, tolerance and generational change. Meet Barack Obama: the slicked-up choice of a bunch of smug hipster celebrities in love with how they and their candidate look on camera. Either way, the video was effective not just for its images but for how it literally captured the musicality of Obama's call-and-response — and, released just before Super Tuesday, it was a brilliantly timed motivational spot.

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