President Obama was not that big a fan of his future presidential campaign slogan in 2004, according to former top Obama advisor David Axelrod in his new book, “Believer.”
“‘Yes we can.’ Isn’t that too corny?” Obama said during his campaign for the Illinois Senate, Axelrod told The New York Times Magazine last week.
Axelrod told the Times he tried to make the case for the slogan, but it was the future First Lady that convinced Obama to run with it.
“Not corny,” Michelle Obama told the future forty-fourth president.
h/t Politico