Yes We Can use that slogan to benefit ourselves.

Political slogans have taken a nice two month snooze. And now, the alarm has gone off and they're once again stirring. The front runner? "Yes we can."

It's beautifully simple, can be wonderfully rhythmic, and painfully imitated.

Watching the NFL championships over the weekend, I was slightly annoyed to find CBS borrowing not only the slogan, but the familiar tri-chromatic postering to promote their line-up of sit-coms.


Boo.

And now, on inauguration day, foreign leaders are slicing themselves a big helping of Obamaism pie. With a heaping scoop of weird on the side.

Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah would like to let me know he supports Barack. How nice. It's quite possibly the strangest banner ad I've ever clicked on: a banner ad that's not even selling anything and links directly to a foreign diplomats web page.

(click image to launch into weirdness)

Maybe this is a good thing: a president the world can get behind.

But while imitation may be the greatest form of flattery, it's still just imitation to me.