Of course there are "left wing" defenses of what Wright said; the mainstream liblogging community is doing nothing but freelance damage control for Obama, and this is one of those issues they're on top of.
The financial mess, much less class warfare, is another matter.
Waxing credulous for the Obama Campaign and taking apart any attack that comes his way, including the Wright "scandal," is coming at the expense for some seems to me the perfect time to really light into America's grossly unfair, inequitable, class society. The Nation piece weirdly said this shows how avaricious and horrible our system is, but we need to bail it out.
One "left" defense of Wright libloggers have submitted is: Check out the horribly vile, xenophobic, etc. shit that right-wing preachers who endorse the GOP, and what they say. GOP nominees go out of their way to snag endorsements from some of the most hateful public religious ministers around. McCain sought Hagee's endorsement, and Hagee calls the Catholic Church the "whore of Babylon." Obama himself has renounced Wright's comments -- he's not defending them.
Libloggers are doing damage control themselves, as they are with the Elliott Spitzer scandal, too.
So, yeah, lots of defense of Dem intra-party horse race stuff. Max is the leats of it. Most mainstream lib blogs spew it 24/7. Check the usual suspects - DailyKos, Digby, etc. In the meantime, there's a dearth of decent class analysis about the real problems on these same blogs. There's way more important stuff out there. Like the Enron debacle, this could really be used to galvanize some working class anger, one would think, and target it, for once, at the right people. Personally, I wish libloggers were doing this more than doing tit-for-tat against Hillary or negative media about Obama.
-B.
Jerry Monaco wrote:
"I wish somebody would explain to me the outrage over what Jeremiah Wright has said in his sermons. Has anybody on the left written in defense of Wright?"
Dennis Claxton wrote:
"He said 'goddam america' and it's been on tv: http://patterico.com/2008/03/14/jeremiah-god-damn-america-wright-has-formal-role-in-obama-campaign-and-plays-significant-role-in-his-life/