When late night comics are on to the Ego storyline,
mainstream and
liberal commentators focus on the flip-flop/lack of principle
meme and Obama's losing race
card gambit is the subject of consternation then something has
happened. Like the cartoon character who runs off the cliff but is
held aloft only so long as there is a suspension of disbelief that
he is in any peril, Obama's candidacy depends on a mass consensus
that The One is more than a carefully contrived
artifice.