Jeremiah Wright

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Lt. Gov. Michael Steele wasn't all kid-gloves with Barack Obama last night.

As I was driving home Monday night, I decided that I was going to write about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright this week. Sometimes when a story is so big, you cannot ignore it. Something must be said. Then as I was watching ABC, I saw Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) cutting ties with his long time pastor who was in Washington earlier this week.

As I was watching Obama speak, it was like he was eavesdropping on a phone conversation I was having earlier in the day. Obama during his speech in North Carolina said, “The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago.” Now, obviously I was not around the Rev. Wright in the late 80s. If you saw “Bill Moyer’s Journal” from over the weekend, you would have seen a different Wright indeed. That program included clips of an interview from “Frontline” in 1987. The clips from two decades ago showed Wright promoting the afro-centric themes that his church would become known for.

The former Lt. Governor was on Fox News yesterday talking about Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright.

The Hill has a piece out this morning about the success of Chris Van Hollen's early hardball tactics in discouraging Republican incumbents and challengers to the 30 freshman Democrats from running this year. He credits much of it to taking the opposition research operation in-house at the DCCC, and his efforts have now turned to targetting even more incumbents -- something few thought possible.