Reply #133: Waaaaah! Obama stole it first!

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It doesn't make Hillary lifting it right, but Obama is EASILY as big a thief as Clinton is, and has no right to the moral high ground. Even Kucinich acknowledges lifting it from Cesar Chavez! The slogan, itself, is CERTAINLY not the ONLY thing Obama stole from Kucinich this cycle - not the tone of the rhetoric:

Democrats, Democrats can move this country forward from a condition where of 8 million people out of work to a fullemployment economy with a living wage for all. If you believe our party can do that, let us tell this nation yes we can. (scattered response "Yes we can.").

Democrats can move this country forward from 40 million people without health insurance to a single payer system which provides quality health care for all. Do you believe we can do that? (Response - Yes we can).

Yes we can. Si se puede.

Democrats can move this country forward from underfunded schools, underpaid teachers, and undereducated youths to making education our top funding priority and providing free college education for all. Do you believe we can do that?

Yes we can. Si se puede.

Democrats can move this country forward from a condition where our air, our water and our land is now being ruined by multinational corporate interests; where we can demonstrate that environmental protection is our path to sustaining the life of the planet. Do you believe we can do this as a party? (Response - Yes we can).

Yes we can. Si se puede.

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/dnc0203/kucin022203spt.html
Dennis J. Kucinich
Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting
Washington, DC
February 22, 2003