Bush speech drops 'turning the corner' Democrats criticize wording From Dana Bash CNN Washington Bureau Thursday, August 12, 2004 Posted: 10:32 AM EDT (1432 GMT) http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/11/bush.corner/index.html WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush has apparently turned a corner in his use of what had been a popular refrain in recent campaign stump speeches.
Shortly after the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, Bush hit the campaign trail to express his optimism about the country's future.
"Turning the corner" or a variation of that was his phrase of choice. At the time, campaign aides had highlighted the phrase as part of Bush's late summer message.
"When it comes to improving America's public schools, we are turning the corner, and we are not turning back," Bush said during a July 30 stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
"When it comes to spreading the peace, we're turning a corner, and we're not turning back," he said the next day in Canton, Ohio.
That refrain was repeated on other campaign stops. But this week, the "turning the corner" line has disappeared from Bush's speech, as Democrats seized on the words to charge that the president was out of touch.
"The last time we had a president who talked about turning the corner and ran on the slogan of turning the corner was Herbert Hoover," Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, said during a July 31 stop in Greenberg, Pennsylvania.
Hoover was in the White House as the country sank into the Great Depression in the 1930s.
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