Posted by
Andy Zarowny on Friday, May 30, 2008 4:20:26 PM
Senator Barack Obama has
another pastor problem.
This time, his church, Trinity
United Church of Christ in
Chicago, invited a guest to
speak last Sunday,
Father Michael Pfleger of
the Catholic parish, St.
Sabina. During a long and
lively sermon, Pfleger
made references to
Senator Hillary Clinton, all
quite derogatory.
His comments went from
anti-American to racial,
nearly calling Clinton a
white supremist. The
animated sermon, of
course, was video taped
and now plays on You-
Tube. Just when Obama
thought he had his last
controversy with his pas-
tor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright
behind him, this pops up.
Father Pfleger is a pal of
Wright. He is also friendly
with Louis Farrakhan,
Jesse Jackson, Cornel
West and Joseph Lowery.
Pfleger, a Jesuit, is a full
practitioner of liberation
theology. He has been
very active in Chicago's
political scene since the
1990s. His parishioners
call him the "blue-eyed
black soul".
In 1990, Pfleger led a pro-
test against the Jerry
Springer Show, as well as
against billboards selling
tobacco and alcohol pro-
ducts. This even included
him climbing on some bill-
boards and damaging
them. He was acquitted
by a jury from charges.
Pfleger later led a pro-
test against the Howard
Stern radio show over
it's use of a billboard
and a slogan, a reword-
ing of a quote from Martin
Luther King.
Father Pfleger even chal-
lenged the Catholic
Church in Chicago when
St. Sabina was not per-
mitted to join a Catholic
athletic league. He
charged the diocese with
racial discrimination.
This was just one of sev-
eral disputes he had with
Cardinal Francis George
of Chicago. In 2003,
Pfleger invited Al Sharpton
to speak at his church,
despite Sharpton's view
on abortion rights. The
Cardinal later rebuked
Pfleger when he and
Jesse Jackson staged a
protest at a neighbor-
hood gun store. The
good father was quoted
about finding the owner
of the store and "snuff
you out." Cardinal George
said that Pfleger's re-
marks "betray the civil
order and is morally out-
rageous."
Pfleger joined the Obama
campaign and served on a
committee for Catholics.
In March 28, 2008, he had
invited Wright to speak at
St. Sabina and described
Wright as, "one of the
great biblical scholars of
our country". He went on
to defend Wright after
clips of earlier sermons
began to appear in the
media. After his com-
ments on Sunday, the
good father apologized for
his remarks and resigned
from Obama's campaign.
So, once again, we have
another example of the
radical associations of
Barack Obama. Who is
next to be exposed?
In other blogs, I have
also mentioned one of
Obama's fund-raisers,
Jodie Evans, the co-
founder of Code Pink.
She also belongs to
the Rainforest Network
which funds domestic
eco-terror groups like
Earth Liberation Front
and their sister group,
Animal Liberation Front.
In 2004, during the height
of fighting in Fullujah,
Evans managed to get
through military road-
blocks, thanks to Henry
Waxman, and deliver to
the al Sadr militia some
$600,000 in cash and
supplies. This, while they
were actively fighting U.S.
Marines!
Wright, Pfleger, Evans
and former Weatherman
terrorist, Bill Ayers, are
all part of Obama's world.
When one reads his auto-
biography, "Dreams From
My Father", we see that
Barack Obama was raised
in a family with many left-
leaning tendencies. His
maternal grandfather was
close friends with a known
Soviet agent and Commu-
nist Party official in Hawaii.
We read that what
attracted Obama to
Wright's church was their
Black Family Values prin-
ciples, especially #8 con-
cerning avoiding middle-
classness.
Obama writes that when
reading Malcom X, he
understood a passage
about how Malcom X
wanted to "remove the
white blood from my
body." Even Obama's
paternal grandfather in
Kenya told him how he
was unhappy that his
son, Barack's father,
polluted the Obama
bloodline with the blood
of a white woman.
When we add up all of
these personal associa-
tions, along with Obama's
policy positions which are
all very leftist, such as
having the IRS determine
our taxes for us instead
of people filing on their
own, or the 'cap & trade'
scheme of carbon credits
for industry and consu-
mers, the picture is very
grave and very socialis-
tic. His wife thinks that
America is a mean nation.
He thinks that hard work-
ing people of Middle
America cling to guns and
religion from their bitter-
ness. Obama's whole
view of America is very
disturbing.