Damning with Faint Praise

Or is it feint praise? "Yeah, I know... things aren't going so well in - WOW! LOOK OVER THERE! IT DOESN'T COMPLETELY SUCK THERE QUITE AS BADLY AS IT DID LAST TIME WE LOOKED!"

Steve Young: Best Defending The Success of The Surge Quote of the Week - The Huffington Post

"There's been real changes. In Ramadi, that has been one of worst places in Iraq, it is now one of the less bad places in Iraq."

David Frum, American Enterprise Institute Fellow, National Review Contributor on CNN's Reliable Sources, Sept.16, 2007

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