Friday, 04 July 2008
Yahoo Daily News
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago BUTTE, Mont. - Is Barack Obama close to being shadowed by giant flip-flops and, worse, having the image stick with people all the way to the voting booth? Four years ago, Republicans branded as a "flip-flop" even the slightest rhetorical or policy change by John Kerry and sent huge replicas of the casual sandals to bob around the Massachusetts Democrat's events, feeding an image of him as a wishy-washy panderer. Fair or not, Kerry never recovered and lost to President Bush. It's now the Republican weapon of choice against Obama....
** CORRECTS TO WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY STED COLLEGE ** Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., center, poses for a photograph with members of the on-stage audience during a commercial break of MSNBC's Hardball College Tour with Chris Matthews at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa., Wednesday, April 2, 2008.
photo: AP / Alex Brandon