Could We Please Get a do-over on "Yes We Can"?

[JCMach1]

For anyone with kids of a certain age,"Yes We Can" can only mean one thing: The Bob the Builder Show. Which, as good as it may be doesn't deserve to be elevated to a campaign theme.

For me, it's like nails on a chalkboard. Just imagine if Hillary had chosen part of the Barney theme as a campaign slogan instead and you would get the idea.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=3IWKhYQarJU



I beg, plead, whatever I need to do but please get the Obama creative people onto something new. I also think, because of the reference, it takes away important parts of Obama's message.


Please, I don't want to hit the mute button. I want to hear what Obama has to say. But I swear, I'll do it! I will!

[MADem]

1. Fuggedaboutit....I think of the old song from eons ago. Pointer Sisters?

Screw the slogans, I'd like to hear some SUBSTANCE.

Hope doesn't heat the house. CHANGE doesn't pay the grocery bills...

[sandnsea]

2. Let's throw away the slogan that is gas on the fire

Right. Brilliant. Don't ever advise a campaign, political or otherwise. :)

It's the UFW slogan.

[JCMach1]

3. It's about media perceptions at this point

and trust me the Saturday Night Live skits will be coming and they will latch onto this like chickens on a june bug.

[sandnsea]

12. It's fairly well innoculated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY

[JCMach1]

13. From the brilliant lyricist who brought us "My Humps"

and "I Got it from my Momma"

As much as I like infectious pop music (and yes even Black Eyed Peas) I can't roll with the sentiment as what comes to mind is Prozac-swilling, glassy-eyed, animated construction equipment.

Please understand :sarcasm: is intended here...

Maybe it is just me, but I run screaming from the room when I hear it!

It seriously should come with a warning like the one they use on the cable news channels for flash photography:

'story contains repetitive rhetorical elements that may bring to mind irritating, simplistic cartoon characters.'

[sandnsea]

14. It's just you n/t

[JCMach1]

15. I don't think so...

I have talked to other people who were annoyed by the repetition if not the cartoon aspect.

[sandnsea]

17. Heaven forbid someone get excited

show some pride, belief in their ability to affect the course of our country. Yeah that's such a terrible thing.

The people I talk to are annoyed by the constant doom and glooming and cynicism any time anybody gets the slightest inclincation to feel good about themselves or their country.

[XemaSab]

4. !Si, se puede!

:P

[puerco-bellies]

5. It is very clever, a take off on a latino/chicano rallying cry.

Yes we can in spanish. This is an attempt to draw latino voters to his camp.

[smalll]

6. But the Bob the Builder audience IS Obama's key demographic!

That's why that slogan works so well!

[Dagaz]

7. Thankyou for the laugh

THIS explains a lot

[MJJLWolf2]

8. Mark Penn,

is that you?

[MrSlayer]

9. Plus Bob is a scab worker. See the evidence here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIPnQ-c9Zv8

[JCMach1]

11. YES he is apparently

:rofl:

[MrSlayer]

10. Dupe. Self delete.

[MercutioATC]

16. Thank god my son is 17...he was a "Barney" kid...not "Bob the Builder"

Barney was annoying as all hell, but at least I get to enjoy the Obama thing...


For the OP, I can empathize...

[Berry Cool]

18. I don't know, I think it'd be funny to see Hillary singing

"I love you, you love me, we're a happy family..."

[JCMach1]

19. OMG... too funny

:rofl: