CNN White House correspondent Dana Bash reported a few days ago that Bush has abandoned his “Turning The Corner” catchphrase on the campaign trail:

Essentially, Bush aides privately again saying they get it. They get that it was probably a mistake to have the president use this phrase. They even admit that it does expose some of the internal debate — the internal debate about the challenge that they have, being an incumbent president, talking about the fact that he understands things aren’t necessarily as good as they should be, but wanting him to have an optimistic tone.

One aide even said you can make people believe something and you can try to make them believe something as much as possible, but if they don’t believe it, saying it over and over again probably won’t change it

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