Where did the "Yes, we can" and campaign about nothing come from?

Is it Barak or is it Axelrod??
David Axelrod was Devals' campaign manager and now he runs Obama's.

Devals' campaign theme- "Together we can!"
Obamas' campaign theme- "Yes, we can!"





BOSTON (AP) - Barack Obama's Democratic presidential campaign playbook has some simple yet striking similarities to Governor Patrick's blueprint:
http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=7613366&nav=menu20_3

Tell a compelling story about yourself and inspire people who feel left out to take back their government.

And stay on a message of hope and unity.

During the New Hampshire primary campaign, Obama told a New Hampshire audience he was borrowing a line from friend Deval Patrick, urging people to "vote your aspirations."

Patrick insists there's no "playbook," saying the two men believe in similar things, like a robust participatory democracy and grassroots campaigning and governing.

The governor, who plans to campaign for Obama in South Carolina, says he and Obama are "hungry for a change."

Deval Patrick, whom Axelrod served in his successful race to become the first African American governor of Massachusetts last year, Patrick's first campaign
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/14/AR2007021401812.html

"We all said that we could have closed our eyes when Obama spoke it could have been Deval," Johnston said. "To us it was a similar kind of message. It's a message that transcends partisan politics."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/04/16/patrick_obama_campaigns_share_language_of_hope/

CROWD: Yes we can! Yes we can!
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec04/obama_7-27.html

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: The crowd in the Chicago hotel ballroom was fired up last March. Their candidate, Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, had pulled in a remarkable 53 percent of the vote in a seven-way race for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate.

Even Obama was amazed.

BARACK OBAMA: The conventional wisdom was we could not win. There was no way that a skinny guy from the south side with a funny name like Barack Obama could ever win a statewide race. Sixteen months later, we are here.

And Democrats from all across Illinois, suburbs, city, down state, up state, black, white, Hispanic, Asian have declared, yes, we can!

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: It was a heady night for the 42-year-old state senator. He and his wife Michelle and their two young children watched returns in an upstairs suite never far from a camera lens.

On the hurried trip down to the ballroom, Obama spied his campaign pollster.

BARACK OBAMA: Did you poll this?

POLLSTER: I told David 47 percent.

Barack ObamaBARACK OBAMA: Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. I really do.

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: The next morning, Obama thanked voters for what was an impressive victory. He pulled 93 percent of the African American vote, carried white suburban areas by wide margins, finished a surprisingly strong second in rural downstate and even did well in white ethnic areas in Chicago with a history of voting against minorities.

:thumbsup:

one or two or three phrases compares to, what looks from that diagram, most of Obama's talking points? It seems that Axelrod has cut and pasted entire sections from the speech he prepared for his former client.

but it came from Khalil Gibran back in the day.

Shakespeare said, "There is nothing new under the sun."

spending again what is already spent."



It was Solomon, the "Preacher" of Ecclesiastes, who first observed:

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

~Ecclesiastes, 1-9



Sonnet 76
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O! know sweet love I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent:
For as the sun is daily new and old,
So is my love still telling what is told.

~Bill Shakespeare