Doublespeak

From doonesbury.com:

"It's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure."
-- Homeland Security adviser Fran Townsend, on "failure" to capture Osama bin Laden

Wow, we're doing Osama's job for him. He must be pleased.

As for the other grave Bush threat, Barak Obama, I was pleased to see that the junior-grade Republicans on "Morning Edition" are scared enough to start dismissing him. Laura Sydell goes quite out of her way in a piece on the rumored Apple cell phone to compare it to Obama, "an unknown quantity" that Dems can invest with their fond hopes.

With two best-sellers, a distinguished academic career and a Senate seat, Obama is an "unknown quantity" if you can't read, I guess...