Over at the Weekly Standard blog, Mary Katharine Ham has posted a short video that is the product of a very simple and ingenious idea: she compiled a series of clips of Barack Obama contradicting himself — flip-flopping, as it’s known — over and over again, on issue after issue, throughout his campaign. Four years ago John Kerry acquired a reputation as a flip-flopper after just a couple of violations; watch the video and be amazed at the sheer volume of Obama’s comparative duplicity. Maybe there is a lesson here for politicians: one flip-flop is a scandal, but a dozen of them is a banality.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LZNc_TP_o[/youtube]
Or maybe it just takes a press corps that is unwilling to allow a negative narrative develop about its favored candidate.
