Sun Times Q&A on Sen Obama and Rev. Wright

Carol Marin asks, "What took Barack Obama so long?"

Neil Steinberg answers:

Obama courageously stood by his pastor, at first, and when the issue was sound bites of Wright's past rhetorical excesses, he was correct to do so.

Now that Wright has changed the equation, restated his views in present tense and performed his giddy self-immolation, Obama is doing his best to spit his poison out.

Marin asked the right question and Steinberg hit the nail on the head.