“Well, I’m not sure — it’s a success that hasn’t occurred yet. I don’t know that I view that as a failure.”
Frances Fragos Townsend, assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, commenting on CNN on the as yet unoccurred success of capturing Osama bin Laden, as reported by Brad DeLong.
PRICELESS.
If there’s any negative feedback in my annual review at work next week, I am TOTALLY going to trot that one out.
Failure? Oh, no no no. Just success that hasn’t yet occurred!
Schnort.