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So, it's worth asking, why do so many on the left feel the need to defend Wright when the proper political move would be to dismiss him as irrelevant and the proper moral move would be to decry his offensive comments?

Because they understand that it does matter. Obama himself has made his faith and his church central to his campaign.
He's had a house of cards from the start. Think about it. Having an arabic name "Barack Hussein", meaning "blessed handsome one", and an Indonesian upbringing, he knew he would be accused of being a Muslim. So his defense was always that he was a devout Christian who attended his church, um, religiously. He must have known this facade could only hold up so long beyond the nature of his "church" was exposed. Perhaps he thought he could skate by because it was just too "exotic" for white folk to understand and he'd get a pass on it.

So it matters, greatly. It speaks to Obama's experience, his judgement, the company he keeps. It matters especially because we don't know Obama, all we have to go on is his personal references. And those references are Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers.

So the left now has to defend their Messiah's friends, but it is a losing battle and they are already surrounded. It's only a question of when Obama collapses completely. Will it happen before or after he is able to secure the nomination?

If Obama fails, and Hillary becomes the nominee (something still highly unlikely) then do not mourn. Obama has already achieved much of what needed to be achieved against her. He has exposed that the Empress has no clothes. She is not inevitable. She is not invincible. And a whole lot of the Democrat party is very unhappy with her. A whole lot of them have publicly said some really nasty things about her, openly declared war on her and Bill. And Obama has yet to really go to work on her with a hammer and tongs. But that may be about to change. The Obama campaign has signaled they will begin using Whitewater, Travelgate, and other Clinton era scandals against her.

She will not get the nomination, no matter what, with out a really nasty, racially charged fight at the Democrat convention. Even if Hillary does get it, she will only have two months to reassemble her fracture coalition. And that will not be possible after Denver explodes.

So, it's worth asking, why do so many on the left feel the need to defend Wright when the proper political move would be to dismiss him as irrelevant and the proper moral move would be to decry his offensive comments?

In order to have credibility in what passes for the Liberal Intellectual Elites, one must display one's ability to be open-minded and challenge the assumptions of society at large. The more outrageous the position, the more Intellectual Backflip Bonus Points (IBBPs) one can garner by defending them.

For instance, defending chocolate ice cream gets you no IBBPs at all, since everybody like chocolate ice cream. But saying you like dog poop flavored ice cream, eating it in public, and offering an impassioned argument why dog poop is superior to chocolate in every way gets you beaucoups IBBPs, since your position is clearly nonsense.

Thus going to the house of William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn and kissing their rings is an important step in the process of being accepted by the Liberal Elites, because the vast majority of Americans find these unrepentent terrorist arseholes to be repugnant. By cozying up to them, Barack Obama can demonstrate that he is superior to the clueless rubes who make up 99.9% of the American electorate, and he earns credibility with the Hyde Park/Cambridge/Berkeley set.

It is a similar process with the radicalized segments of the African American community. In order to gain "cred" with this group, Barack Obama has to not only sit still for, but embrace, any racial grievance hobbyhorse that comes down the pike. This problem is exacerbated by the natural tendency toward hyperbole in this community, where the grievances morph from perceived slights to discrimination to intimidation to genocide in less time than it takes to read this sentence. By sitting in the pews and listening while Rev. Wright ranted and raved for twenty years, Obama demonstrated his fealty to subset of the Liberal Elites that are the Radicalized Racial Grievance Community.

The problem, of course, is that it is quite impossible to square the core values of the Liberal Intellectual Elites with Mainstream America. They are, by definition, opposed, because the Liberal Intellectual Elites have adopted positions diametrically opposed to mainstream values in order to gain IBBPs. So when the Liberal Intellectual Elites try to come down from their ivory towers to get the hayseed rubes to actually come out and vote for them, the result is predictable disaster.

"She will not get the nomination, no matter what, with out a really nasty, racially charged fight at the Democrat convention. Even if Hillary does get it, she will only have two months to reassemble her fracture coalition. And that will not be possible after Denver explodes."

Call me crazy, but I don't think she wants it now. She just wants to make sure that Obama does not become President so she can run in 2012. She will be 64 at that time. Not too old to run again. The Republicans will have been in power for 16 years and John McCain will be 75 and may not run again. Yes, 2012 is now the target for the Hildabeast. In the meantime, she might be able to wrangle the Senate majority leadership out of the Democrats in order to bow out. That will be a place of power and prominence for her. Don't look for her to throw any bones to Obama from that position.