Bob the Builder is filing a lawsuit against Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama for allegedly stealing a catch phrase that the Builder has made famous on his show.
A heading on the Bob the Builder Web site clearly defines the Builder's rallying call as "Can we build it? Yes we can!"
Sources say Obama, in a crunch to find the right words for a New Hampshire concession speech he was not prepared to give, lifted the saying from his youngest daughter's Bob the Builder backpack (she's reportedly a tomboy) and turned it into his own campaign rallying call. Here's some of the text from Obama's speech:
"But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we’ve been told that we’re not ready, or that we shouldn’t try, or that we can’t, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people. Yes we can!"
Builder's attorney, Jonah the Wrecking Ball, said that Obama might as well have been wearing a yellow hard hat up there. "If Obama wasn't black, and if he wasn't made of flesh instead of clay, I would have mistook him for Bob up there," said Wrecking Ball. "The words coming out of his mouth were the same."
