Pfleger chuckled when I asked if he would be in the Mile High City this week: “It would be feeding time if I went.”

The pastor of St. Sabina Church, a staunch Obama-ite, wants his candidate to “deluge the press” with programs that have not been top priorities in the campaign so far: racism, sexism, education and poverty. Pfleger cautions that Obama shouldn’t be diverted by “flavor of the day” issues such as high gas prices. “The president has to say, ‘I’m not willing to negotiate these things as second priorities.’ He must keep that moral focus.”