“They” being the very public preachers (one, a Catholic priest) who became suddenly very private after Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination.

Have no fear. They’re still around — and speaking up.

An Illinois paper has a roundup of the usual suspects, including Rev. Wright and Fr. Pfleger. (Rocco even has Pfleger’s Sunday sermon, which sounds like a doozy.) The AP, meanwhile, focuses on Farrakhan, arguably the most controversial of the lot.

It could make for an interesting inaugural, if one of these guys gives the invocation.

Billy Graham isn’t gone, but Lord, I miss him already.