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will.i.am performs "Yes We Can" during the final day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.. Since the original posting on YouTube, the video has been re-posted a number of times by other users and as of February 23, 2008, the video had been watched a combined total of more than 22 million times among all of the postings. [5]
Sí se puede ("Yes, you can" or "Yes, it can" in English), the motto of United Farm Workers; Yes I Can (disambiguation) "Yes We Can Can", a 1973 song written by Allen Toussaint "Yes We Can Win the Best for Scotland", the Scottish National Party's 1997 United Kingdom general election manifesto; We Can Do It (disambiguation)
"Yes, we can!" was the theme of Senator Obama's speech following his second-place finish in the 2008 New Hampshire primary. [9] The phrase was also used in the song "Yes We Can", which was performed by numerous celebrities in support of Obama. [10] (Huerta endorsed Hillary Clinton in her campaign for the Democratic nomination for presidency in ...
Obama also made reference to his popular campaign chant, "Yes We Can": And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America — the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't; and the people who pressed on with that American creed: 'Yes, we can.' [17]
Obama's campaign used the slogan "Change we can believe in" and the chant "Yes We Can". The latter slogan is shared with the United Farm Workers and associated with its founder Dolores Huerta and is well known amongst Latinos in its Spanish form Sí se puede. The "Change we can believe in" has been used in parodies both during and since the ...
The album yielded the hits "Yes We Can Can" and "Wang Dang Doodle" and became a success based on word of mouth after heralded performances at The Troubadour in Los Angeles and on the Helen Reddy Show.
A cover of "Yes We Can" re-titled "Yes We Can Can" was recorded by The Pointer Sisters. It was producer David Rubinson's suggestion that the Pointer Sisters record the song. As Rubinson said, "I loved almost everything Allen Toussaint ever wrote," and "Yes We Can Can" was one of the songs the Pointer Sisters recorded as a demo while they were ...
The lyrics to this version of ‘Yes We Can’ are a rallying cry to all people to come together for the good of the country and the world. These lyrics can be found at www.thejsband.com (4). Oak Park newspaper, The Wednesday Journal (5), said,"she has written a political song, something in the style of a modern day Joan Baez…".