•  Campaign Videos (May 2012) « Obama for America
  

[Greetings in various languages]

Mika: My name is Mika.  I'm a project manager on the Obama campaign.

Omar: My name is Omar and I'm on the national political team.

Carol: My name is Carol and I'm an intern in the voter protection department.

Unidentified Man: My parents are so proud of the work that I'm doing for the campaign

Mika: I'm a fourth generation Japanese American.  We call them Yonsei (四世).

Carol: My parents are from South Korea.

Unidentified Man in Turban: My father came here with $13 in his pocket.

Unidentified Man: Coming over from Thailand, my dad started working in L.A. as a valet—didn't know how to drive.

Unidentified Woman: My parents came to the states to get their Masters degrees.

Carol: They wanted their children to dream as big as they did and live even bigger lives.

Unidentified Man: My father came here as a poor immigrant from Pakistan and achieved the American Dream.

Unidentified Man: We got naturalized as citizens in October of 2008 and we drove directly from our swearing in ceremony to vote early for Barack Obama

Unidentified Man: As someone growing up in a multi-racial household, his story was very similar to my own personal story.

Mika: The president's sister is half Asian, and so when he talks about the AAPI community, he's not just talking about us as a constituency group, he's talking about us as family.

Unidentified Man: As far as being an Asian-American voter is concerned, President Obama is very clearly the right choice to make.  He has had more Asian-American Cabinet members than any other President in history.

Unidentified Man (voiceover): We now have double the number of AAPI judges.

Carol: Barack Obama has helped almost 22,000 AAPI children get access to early childhood education.

Unidentified Man (voiceover): There will be 40,000 more Pell Grants made available to AAPI students.

Unidentified Man: President Obama has provided over $7 billion in loans to Asian-American small business owners.

Unidentified Man (voiceover): 18 tax cuts for small businesses.

Unidentified Man: What's underlying all his economic policies is the idea that hard work pays and responsibility is rewarded, and that's very much the spirit of the AAPI community.

Unidentified Man in Turban: The Asian-American population is one of the fastest growing populations in America.

Unidentified Woman: But only half of the eligible AAPIs are registered to vote.

Unidentified Man: That's a lower registration rate than any other racial or ethnic minority that's reported

Carol: We need to get the word out about how to get involved in the process.  It's particularly important for us to start these conversations within our own communities.

Unidentified Man: I sent out emails to most of my family members...

Unidentified Man: Some of our family get-togethers are a great opportunity to chime in with the president's accomplishments and maybe change someone's mind over a plate of [  ].

Unidentified Man: There's so many ways to get involved...

Unidentified Man: Our community matters; your voice matters.

Unidentified Man: Make sure you're registered to vote, and make sure your families are too.

Carol: Sign up at AAPI.BarackObama.com

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Notes: This video demonstrates the same jumbled editing style of "Home for the Holidays..." (Dec. 2011).  The structure is stories (the speaker hold up photos of their parent), Obama accomplishments (reinforced with text on the screen), and a call to action. 

One line is a bit problematic, "President Obama has provided over $7 billion in loans to Asian-American small business owners."

Copyright © 2012 Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action.