The media is attempting to find that one defining label they can stick on Barack. They've been doing it for quite awhile now to every Democratic candidate.
With Gore, it was the idea that he was a liar and exaggerated things. They took quite a few true statements, blew them out of proportion and then labeled them false. They were false, once the media got through twisting them. The only thing is that they were no longer the things Gore actually said. That didn't keep the media from settling on that definition of Gore and pushing it with everything they had.
In 2004, it was the idea that Kerry was a flip-flopper. They sold the idea that a politician should be inflexible. That he should 'stay the course' no matter what. This is supposed to be a virtue? It didn't matter. That gave Bush a chance to revel in his idiotic stubbornness.
Apparently, this year they are trying to reuse the flip-flop charge against Obama. I don't think it will resonate with the voters the way it did in 2004. People have seen what damage stubbornness can do.
It won't work because the polls show tha people think McCain is just as much, if not more of a flip-flopper. The reason it worked against Kerry was because people saw Bush as ''resolute''.
