Good thing that nothing unexpected ever happens that a president might have to deal with

The new version of “I don’t think anyone could have anticipated” is:

Fred Thompson, who was in South Carolina plugging his “100 percent pro-life voting record,” was pressed for his reaction to the [Pat Robertson] endorsement by Carl Cameron of Fox News, just minutes after the Robertson news burst from the press corps’ BlackBerrys. “I’m surprised,” Thompson said, with a flash of honesty. Then he cautiously added, “I guess it’s because I’m easily surprised.”