The president is set to give his first press conference since late May but there is a strong likelihood that the topics the White House would like to discuss will end up on the back burner. A crazed pastor in Florida pledging to burn Qurans, the possibility of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel making a run for mayor of Chicago, the lingering effects of the oil spill in the Gulf, and the controversial construction of an Islamic Cultural Center in downtown Manhattan have all distracted the media and the public from a conversation the administration was hoping to have on the economy and jobs.