Now they want to talk about the issues

Sure, when Geraldine Ferraro was on the hot seat, all the media wanted to talk about was Ferraro/Clinton.

Now that it is Obama on the hot seat, now they want to talk about the issues:

Surrogates for Barack Obama on Sunday downplayed the significance of Obama’s relationship to a controversial pastor and suggested the discussion is a diverson from bigger issues in the Democrat presidential race.

“The fact of the matter is people would like to move on to other things,” said Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, characterizing remarks by Obama pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright as “outrageous,” but saying they are not relevant to Obama’s candidacy.

Sure, we can go back to talking about the NAFTA issue. How is that?

Obama says one thing and his surrogates run to Canada and say something else.