Despite assurance from the Left blogosphere, pesky media outlets keep saying the Wright affair is not behind us. Even superdelegates here and there concede that it “has not been defused.” But why should this be surprising?

After ignoring the issue for a year, Barack Obama insisted that we needed to begin a dialogue on race, gave exactly one speech–and then dropped the subject. (This is a dialogue?) Even more importantly, he never really answered any of the key concerns which Democrats themselves have (Why choose a liberation theology church? Didn’t he sit through language similar to if not identical with what was on those dozens of tapes? Why bring his children to hear someone in a “time warp”?).

So if you don’t produce a promised dialogue and don’t answer any hard questions, you can’t be surprised when voters aren’t satisfied. That’s the difference between a candidate who goes in front of the media and answers every imaginable question and one who is trying to skate by.