Bush recovery

Article on President Bush:

"The idea, one senior official said, was like fighting with a spouse: 'You need to give voice to their concern. That doesn't necessarily solve the division and the difference, but it drains the disagreement of some of its animosity if you feel you've been heard.'"

I remember that in the first debate between President Bush and then-candidate Kerry, some people, wives and mothers in particular, thought of Bush as a stubborn father too prideful to ask for directions.