What’s funny is that the conservative folks in the States have credited it to Mr. Ahmadinejad, accusing Barack of stealing it.

Still, though, for someone versed in the world politics of 2008, I can’t help but doubt that the person that suggested it for the Spanish Eurocup team wasn’t aware of its use in the US presidential campaign of 2008.

I thought it was a Cesar Chavez thing. (I went to High School in California, so of course it’s what I what taught.)

Through my eyes I see it like this: ” Yes, we can.”

*A popular, optimistic mantra during the Great Depression.

*Chavez adopts it as the chant for unionizing farm workers.

*The so called ‘open borders’ crowd continues to keep chanting it, and they get in the public eye, again in the last few years.

*Obama re-adopts it as a theme, and even theme song for this campaign.

Well, no one can really trademark such a simple and common little phrase, but “Podemos” isn’t exactly the same as “Sí Se Puede”, anyways.

Kind of like:
Git-R-Done!
A por ellos!