I Wish I'd Said That

The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto:

Last Thursday's edition of AM New York, a free daily newspaper, contains this quote:

"I'm going to be really patient with (Obama). Change takes a lot of time," said Hannah Gold, 21, a junior studying political science at Hunter College.

Our reader has a feeling--and now that he mentions it, so do we--that "Change takes a lot of time" is going to be a common expression over the next four years among the kind of people who mocked President Bush for failing to turn Iraq into a modern democracy overnight.