Well, that didn't last long. John Kerry on Meet the Press on August 31st:

MR. RUSSERT: Your campaign manager is quoted as follows: “Howard Dean is a very crafty, very calculating politician.” Do you agree?

SEN. KERRY: I don’t want to make any characterizations. I wish my campaign were not making characterizations of people publicly and I don’t like that.

John Kerry's campaign manager in the Boston Globe today:

"Weird things have been coming out of the man's mouth since he was first a candidate. It's just now that the press corps is taking him seriously and holding him accountable for his gaffes and flip-flops," said Jim Jordan, Kerry's campaign manager. "When he was an interesting, colorful but not particularly serious outsider, reporters gave him an awful lot of slack."

I am really, really tired of the press not doing their job and giving in to this ridiculous 'flip-flop' meme.