If You Can't Beat Him... Be Him?

By: DanG
Published On: 2/20/2008 3:37:45 PM

Cross-posted from VB Dems

I can't even actually post the video, it makes me ill.  So here's the link to it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...  

Basically, Hillary Clinton has gotten so desperate that she has stolen Barack Obama's Campaign Slogan.  Instead of Yes We Can, she has changed it to Yes We Will.  Seriously, a one word difference.  Watch the video: even the audience was like "are you serious?"  People refused to chant with her, it was an obvious attempt to capture what Obama has.

This desperate move could be the end of Hillary Clinton if the Media plays it enough.


Comments



Actually, unions and Latino groups have been using (AnonymousIsAWoman - 2/20/2008 5:02:48 PM)
the slogan Si se puede (or, yes we can) for a long time on picket lines and on posters.  

The United Farmworkers Union, United Food and Commercial Workers, Service Employees International Union and Hotel and Restaurant Employees, among other groups commonly chant this slogan on picket lines and use it on handouts and flyers. I've chanted it many times on picket lines myself. And believe me, we've been doing so long before I ever heard of Barack Obama. So nobody has a copywright on it and Obama certainly didn't invent it.

They are both entitled to use it even in its English translation.  It's a common Latino organizing and rallying slogan.



Be that as it may, (DanG - 2/20/2008 5:17:08 PM)
The fact is that in this campaign season, Obama is associated with the phrase and chant "Yes we can."  Doesn't it seem a little weird for Hillary to decide to take an incredibly close version of it this late in the race?


Dan that's a silly argument (AnonymousIsAWoman - 2/22/2008 6:49:04 PM)
The phrase has been around since at least the 60s and if it's associated with anybody that would be with Caesar Chavez.

If they wanted to be petty and nitpick, it's Latino groups and unions that could object to anybody else using the phrase but since Obama himself took it from them - and he did it in homage to them - it's just not a logical argument to accuse Hillary of stealing it from him.

In fact, as an objection to Hillary, this one is scraping the bottom of the barrel.



TPM has a video up (Randy Klear - 2/20/2008 5:03:35 PM)
here that excerpts the candidate speeches from last night. The first part matches up Clinton's and McCain's. It's creepy how close they sound.


Yes we will? (Rebecca - 2/20/2008 6:20:37 PM)
Will is empty without real power. Will forces things. Can is quitely effective. Can means power. She can wish and will all she likes, but without the power of the people nothing will happen.  


Yeah, (Sui Juris - 2/22/2008 8:03:53 PM)

She can wish and will all she likes, but without the power of the people nothing will happen.  

Really?  I'm thinking that the last 8 years put that myth to rest . . .