Well, not the actual person, but the controversy that blew up in Obama’s face last month. Several days off of the news cycle and…

…Dick Cheney chats up (or is “snarled” a better word?) the issue on - and this is a biiiiig surprise - Sean Hannity’s daytime radio show.

“I thought some of the things he said were absolutely appalling,” Cheney told the conservative talk show host. “And, you know, I haven’t gotten into the business of trying to judge how Sen. Obama dealt with it, or didn’t deal with it, but I really — I think, like most Americans, I was stunned at what the reverend was preaching in his church and then putting up on his Web site.”

So is Cheney still the top Republican attack dog? Shouldn’t he relinquish that job now that he’s a lame duck Veep with very low popularity among the swing voters that the GOP is trying to poach? Not a partisan observation, just straight facts. Cheney is hardly who most savvy Republicans want to see as the face of their party, launching ambush attacks on Obama over an issue seen as dead until the fall.

For his part, a nervous Obama is aware of the explosiveness of the Wright issue and is expecting it to be a theme of the GOP opposition in a general campaign - if he were to win the nomination, that is.

“I think there is no doubt that we will see Rev. Wright comments re-circulating during a general election,” he said. “I think there is no way of preventing that.”

But Obama said he trusts the American people to “sort out what’s important and what’s not.”

Expecting is one thing: How will a campaign that has already booted the problem once (by not even realizing that Wright’s sermons were a potential hiccup) handle it when the stakes are that their highest and a dedicated Republican attack machine is gunning for him? It’s a legit electability Q. And a question those three superdelegates who broke for Hillary today might have been pondering….