Obama’s ‘Yes, we can’ echoes Culinary’s

[ursi]

Source: Las Vegas Sun

Sat, Jan 12, 2008

When Barack Obama introduced a new refrain to his stump speech after losing the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, it was aimed specifically at a Nevada audience: Culinary Workers Local 226.

“Yes, we can!” Obama told supporters, over and over, after his narrow loss to Hillary Clinton.

Although it fit with the Illinois senator’s message of hope, Culinary workers in Las Vegas recognized it as the labor slogan popularized by United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez. Indeed, the phrase, in Spanish, is plastered all over the walls of the union’s headquarters here. Apparently the the 60,000-strong Culinary, Nevada’s largest and most politically active union, heard Obama loud and clear, endorsing him on Wednesday. He came to town Friday to accept the endorsement and to solidify his support among the union’s rank and file in the week before the state’s Jan. 19 caucus.

“I am fired up,” Obama told hundreds of Culinary members gathered in the union’s large hall. “I love this union.”



Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jan/12/obamas-yes-we-can-echoes-culinarys/

[papau]

1. Real plagiarism from the unions by someone not known to be as pro-union as Edwards - but its legal

[Kittycat]

2. Gobama! Yes. We. Can.!

[Cha]

3. I hope they get to vote for

whom they want and not get snuffed out of their voting rights by hillary's flank.

[niceypoo]

4. "Yes we can" use Sharpton as an attack dog...

...to accuse any and all critics of being racists.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. do you plan to copy & paste this broken record in every Obama

thread? Just asking?

[davsand]

8. Care to expand on this theme for me?

I've seen you post it a few times here on DU, and I'm just wondering if you can actually expand on it a bit so I can tell what, EXACTLY, you are trying to say...


Laura

[MrSlayer]

5. Bob the Builder wants his slogan back.

See Bob settle a union dispute here.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/69074/detail/

[amandabeech]

7. "Si, se puede," is the usual phrase. n/t+