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    Dolores Huerta: Obama can NOT use "Yes we can"

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    Who can say 'Si Se Puede'?

    Dolores Huerta says that Obama does not he have the right to use that phrase, but granddaughter to Cesar Chávez thinks the contrary.


    HOUSTON, Texas.— ¿Who has the right to use the "Si se puede"?

    It is a famous phrase of fight, created by the leadership of the Union of Peasants in the sixties and since then has been utilized by numerous politicians and activist, mainly latin Americans, like a shout of battle.

    A few months ago, the campaign of Barack Obama for the presidency has come using the "Si se puede" in Spanish and also in English: "Yes we can".

    And the creator of the phrase does not like that one bit, Dolores Huerta, the cofounder of the UFW and a legendary activist.

    Yesterday, on campaign for Hillary Clinton in Texas, Huerta questioned Obama by using the famous phrase of fight, that she invented 40 years ago.

    "Obama is an opportunist", Huerta told La Opinion..

    She interviewed during a march of "women by Hillary" in the center of Houston yesterday afternoon, Huerta said that personally she questioned the fact that Obama utilized the phrase.

    "How can he use that phrase that has so much meaning, when he did not give a drop for this fight for us immigrants? He did not win the right to deserve to use this phrase", Huerta said.

    Exactly some days ago during the day, in a crowded event in Fort Worth and in other rallies along Texas, Obama has utilized the "Si se puede" in Spanish in repeated occasions.

    A famous video, of a composed song by the producer of the group Black Eyed Peas, Will. i. am, uses as a refrain the phrase "Yes we can", of a speech around the theme given by Barack Obama in New Hampshire in January..

    The video has become in a few weeks in one of the most popular videos of internet, and has been seen by millions of people.

    But Huerta thinks that Obama should not use the "Si se puede".

    "He hasn't joined with the Latin Americans and now he wants that community to vote for him, and is using that phrase. I was native of that phrase and this represents many things, the sacrifice of the peasants, the martyrs that we had in our union (of peasants), people struck and imprisoned", Huerta said.

    Huerta is uncomfortable with Obama, a senator of Illinois, because he "never went to visit to Elvira Arellano when she was in sanctuary", he never helped in the liberation of a Mexican youth, that was accused unjustly of homicide in El Paso.

    In general, Huerta said, Obama, has not been there in the fights of for immigrants.

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    Divide and conquer. Damn politicians ought to be hung by their toes!

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    Huerta is a big Hitlery supporter.

    Divide and conquer.

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    I'm sorry but I find it very arrogant for someone to think they "own" a phrase as simple as "yes we can". I mean in the ions of language I'm sure someone managed to put those 3 words together.......

    If I'm not mistaken Obama and Durbin helped Elvira before and when she blew it this last time they wouldn't step in again.

    Not to mention I've it to my eyeballs on this latino issues thing as if the rest of the people in this country doesn't have some as well.
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    I just love the fact that many in the Amnesty movement dislike Obama.

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    I'm not an Obama fan but no one has the right to tell anyone else what they can or cannot say. The demands made lately on our free speech rights can only be made by ignorance and force.

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    "Yes We Can!" was a slogan used back in the '70s to help encourage people to recycle.
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    Quote Originally Posted by crazybird
    I'm sorry but I find it very arrogant for someone to think they "own" a phrase as simple as "yes we can". I mean in the ions of language I'm sure someone managed to put those 3 words together.......

    If I'm not mistaken Obama and Durbin helped Elvira before and when she blew it this last time they wouldn't step in again.

    Not to mention I've it to my eyeballs on this latino issues thing as if the rest of the people in this country doesn't have some as well.
    Your memory does not fail you. Both Durbin and Obama got that scumbag a stay based on the allegations that Saul suffered from ADD as if that should have stopped her from being deported and taking him back with her. After they refused to step up and request a second stay on her behalf, she holed up in the church.

    As for their non-support of Obama there's infighting amongst the older vs. younger hispanic "activists". The stupidity in all of this is both Shrillary and Obamanation are amnesty givers, he even more dedicated to it than she is. Unlike hers, his hispandering has never waivered.
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    the arrogance is mind boggling
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    And the creator of the phrase does not like that one bit, Dolores Huerta, the cofounder of the UFW and a legendary activist.
    Good Grief! That is really stupid. Its not like its a huge legendary phrase that will go down in history. Its a simple "yes we can".



    Huerta is uncomfortable with Obama, a senator of Illinois, because he "never went to visit to Elvira Arellano when she was in sanctuary", he never helped in the liberation of a Mexican youth, that was accused unjustly of homicide in El Paso.
    Is Huerta kidding!
    Why would Obama waste his time. What is it with all you people? Do you really think Elvira's squatting in a church and ignoring our immigration laws, helped your cause any? If anything, it woke up even more Americans to your outrageous demands. And Americans are becomming
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