On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 02:17:35 GMT, in a place far, far away, Michael
Walsh made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

The remark to the reporters almost sounds like "the future is ahead of us"
although if you want to give him credit he probably means that we
should point America at some future goal that is important to the
country.

Well, better than "the future is behind us," I guess.