Slogan of Barack Obama’s 2008 electoral campaign, an apotheosis of vacuous positivity, relegating naysayers to the status of someone in the corner at a party, muttering: ‘No, we can’t.’ The first-person plural (instead of “Yes, I can”) included the audience in an implicit communal activity, though once elected Obama did not seem so solicitous of public opinion.
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