Wright's interview on PBS generated some national headlines, but there was no real firestorm. Whether he will produce more "news" today at the Press Club here is unclear.

That lack of news value would be just fine with Team Obama, as I'm sure officials there would love to suffer no collateral damage from Wright's first major foray into the public eye since his controversial sermons surfaced in March.

Obama told Fox News Sunday that the firestorm over Rev. Wright raised a "legitimate issue," but he again sought to distance himself from some of Wright's more controversial statements.

"I got to church not to worship a pastor but to worship God," Obama told Chris Wallace.

Obama though once more defended Wright's work.

"He built a ministry and I think that people need to take a look at the whole church and the whole man in making these assessments," Obama added.

The Wild Card today obviously is that Wright will be in a bit of a different setting, at the National Press Club, just a few blocks over from the White House.

All it takes is a couple of snappy sound bites that come off the wrong way and we will be talking about this for a few more days.

Usually, the format at the Press Club allows for some questions, but often they are submitted on cards and then read by the moderator. But this is a breakfast thing, so I'm not sure if it's the same procedure.

While this issue is still around for Obama, I'm starting to think that the William Ayers story isn't going away anytime soon either.

Videos of a reunion of Ayers and other antiwar voices from the 1960s that took place last year are now circulating.

On them, Ayers critcizes the US as a warmonger, notable for "jingoistic patriotism, uprecendented and unapologetic military expansion, white supremacy" and more.

Obama will try to say they aren't issues, but when you have newspapers like the Boston Globe questioning his links, you know the issue isn't going to go away before November.