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Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs describes in very explicit detail how Barack Obama's official Web site, Organizing for America, has become a "hub for Islamic anti-Semitism." All this hate speech was posted with the full approval of the moderators who exercise editorial control over the site. The fact that Barack Obama allows his official Web site to serve as a platform for this kind of material, along with misogynist and ageist hate speech, is entirely consistent with his personal and open association with racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Catholic hate groups. ...The following picture was taken at a 2007 meeting of Al...

Community leaders and parents outside Fenger are in disbelief that they are not at the breakfast table with Arne Duncan and Eric Holder. Attorney General Holder and Secretary of Education Duncan are in town to speak, ostensibly, with the community about youth violence -- a blight on Chicago neighborhoods so vividly brought to national attention by the videotaped beating of Derrion Albert. "They are meeting about us without us," said Phillip Jackson of the Black Star Project, a Chicago-based educational reform organization. Duncan and Holder's meeting at the Four Seasons also includes Mayor Daley, Pastor Michael Pfleger, CEO of Chicago...

Obamarama . . . Back in town: White House political strategist David Axelrod and wife, Susan, hit the Gene Siskel Film Center Sunday night for a screening of the film "Radical Disciple: The Story of Father Pfleger" -- followed by a dinner at Petterino's eatery accompanied by a low-key Secret Service detail. • Background: The film was Axelrod's baby. He began the documentary about the radical South Side Catholic priest eight years ago, before turning over the project to filmmaker Bob Hercules in order to focus on another project: President Obama.

he Rev. Michael Pfleger, the white pastor from Chicago's predominantly black Saint Sabina Catholic Church, made some incendiary statements at Philander Smith College's opening convocation on Thursday, reported the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette. The clergyman first came to the national spotlight, when he gave a sermon at President Obama's own former controversial Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in May 2008 (see video below). Here are some of the charges made by Father Pfleger that were recently reported:

Two Catholic priests who appeared as guests during back-to-back segments on Thursday’s No Bias, No Bull program were treated noticeably differently by CNN’s on-air personalities. Father Michael Pfleger of the Archdiocese of Chicago, who is best known for his racially-charged rhetoric against Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Democratic presidential race, as well as his defense of former Obama pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright, faced only a couple of pointed questions, most notably about his recent decision to fly an American flag upside-down. In the following segment, Father Mitch Pacwa of the orthodox Catholic TV network EWTN faced a more skeptical and...

State Representative Annazette Collins found herself in the hot seat after she suggested that kids be educated about guns. She says downstate, children are educated about weapons at a young age....why not in more urban areas. "Down state they teach you that guns are meant for hunting, for protection..here in the urban cities, all they see are guns on tv..and they gun down people." said Collins. She says she only suggested the thought of gun education to help get House Bill 48 passed. The bill would require universal background checks and ban private handgun sales. But the majority of people...

Free at last-- The radical racist Obama supporters were back at the pulpit this weekend:

I was asked (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117468/posts, #6) to provide absolute proof, in the form of an original page link, that Barack Obama accepted the endorsements of Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger before he threw them under the bus. Archive.org does display saved Web sites after about six months. http://web.archive.org/web/20080208110833/http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/faithtestimonials contains the endorsements from Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright and Michael "There were a whole lot of white people crying" Pfleger. Testimonials Endorsements from religious leaders are extended in their personal capacity, and not on behalf of any house of worship, organization or denomination. Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Senior Pastor, Trinity...

The following screen shots of Barack Obama’s official Web site speak for themselves. We encourage our readers to copy, paste, and circulate them.

Before ACORN became a household name, Larry Johnson and Eastan McNeal reported that the Obama campaign has been funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to a shady ACORN shell corporation called Citizens Services, Inc. New information, including the photo above, proves that Obama’s past denials of his relationship with ACORN are not the truth. According to the Leftist Dissent Magazine, the nebulous term, “community organizing,” has shaped Barack Obama: Although he didn’t make community organizing a lifetime career—he left Chicago to attend Harvard Law School—Obama often says that his organizing experience has shaped his approach to politics. Since embarking on...

Sen. Barack Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2004 that he had three spiritual advisors: radical Jeremiah Wright, radical James Meeks, and radical Father Michael Pfleger. But, radical Father Pfleger was more than a spiritual guide for Obama. They also held protests together:

Freepers, not sure if this is important but I believe this is the only pic of them together at a protest, found it with some archives, if it is important, please save in case the website takes it down

Election Will Change Nothing, Says Obama-Backer Fr. Pfleger Tuesday, September 02, 2008 By Nicholas Ballasy (CNSNews.com) - Fr. Michael Pfleger -- long-time friend of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who he endorsed for president early on – said nothing will change in America no matter who is elected in November, apparently contradicting Obama's famous campaign slogan, "Change We Can Believe In." “If you are silly enough to think that a new person in the White House can change the situation,” said Pfleger in an Aug. 3 sermon, “that's like saying we got good food in prison now but you're still...

This is the fourth piece in our series about Barack Obama's questionable campaign financing methods and his ties to racist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic hate groups. Circulation as a viral E-mail is encouraged. If you want to use the images, though, please download and copy them instead of linking, as linking uses our bandwidth. Barack and Michelle Obama's Racist and Anti-American Church Key talking point: Jeremiah Wright is merely a symptom of the Trinity United Church of Christ's racism and hatred of America. The people who directed the church sanctioned the publication of Wright's hate speech plus a guest piece from...

Hundreds packed a South Side church Sunday to hear Minister Louis Farrakhan address what he called a nationwide educational system that is in decline. The speech, titled "Educational Challenge: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century," culminated a three-day conference in which educators, community activists and religious leaders from across the country met here to discuss solutions to what they called a plighted education system. Farrakhan, joined onstage by the Rev. Michael Pfleger, attributed the qualms of America's education system to the country's history of elitism, minority children's disassociation with curriculums and the absence of religion in classrooms. "With a...

We, as parents, are well aware of the importance of our teachers who teach and program our children. We also know how important it is for our children to play with good-thinking children growing up. Sen. Barack Obama has grown up with the teaching of very angry, militant white and black people: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers and Rev. Michael Pfleger. We cannot say we are not affected by teachers who are militant and angry. We know too well that we become like them, and Mr. Obama will run this country in their mindset.

Father Pfleger epitomizes those Caucasians who regard their history with scorn. Here's why I don't join in the self-flagellation.

Let us be extremely wary when we ask for “change.” The Democrat Party is guilty of injecting race into the presidential campaign. America is no longer a racist country, and Americans are deeply offended when it is portrayed as such. These accusations and the apprehension tied to them have been insidiously worked into our collective subconscious. Keep that in mind when you’re feeling guilty for something in which you most likely took no part. The days of slavery and segregation are gone.

Fr. Michael Pfleger has reappeared on the national ABC program “Good Morning America” as some type of spokesman on race who is also against gun violence being touted as having “spent the last 30 years cleaning up his impoverished south side Chicago parish, fighting the presence of poverty, drugs, gangs and gun violence..” despite the dismal reality of the St. Sabina’s neighborhood floundering in a sea of prosperity in Chicago. Mixing partisan politics with religion has been combustible combination in Chicago for generations. The media practice of using a religious persona to somehow add legitimacy to a political cause is...

The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the Chicago priest suspended for two weeks after a sermon mocking Sen. Hillary Clinton, returned to his pulpit on Sunday like a fighter ready to take back the title. In an exclusive interview, Pfleger told "Good Morning America" that he does not "apologize for being passionate, I don't apologize for being free." "But I apologize when my passion or my freeness and my flawedness of character get in the way of a content which is much more important to me," he told "GMA's" Robin Roberts. Pfleger gave the controversial Clinton speech on May 25 as a...

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has just released its new findings on Americans and their attitudes toward religion, God and doctrine. It is not too surprising that most of those surveyed are suffering from a bit of confusion when it comes to the difference between faith in God and claiming to be somehow associated with religion.  What moved me the most about this survey was, sadly, the conundrum we face in the Catholic Church, which is actually a very good example of why the results from the Pew survey are not at all extraordinary. They may be...

About 600 of Chicago’s top African-American lawyers and judges gave standing ovations Thursday to two preachers who’ve been vilified in recent months for their sermons that went nationwide on the Web. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the Rev. Michael Pfleger became headaches for Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign when their controversial comments became fodder for conservative talk-show hosts. Wright said “God damn America” in arguing that American foreign policy helped bring on the 9/11 attacks. Pfleger said Hillary Clinton resented Obama as a black man taking the nomination she felt was hers. But despite the heat on them, the two...

Like losers in a shell game, most of us got snookered into looking under the wrong nutshell regarding the inflammatory and racist sermon delivered last month by the Rev. Michael Pfleger during his guest appearance at Barack Obama's church in Chicago. The media focused the spotlight on what Pfleger, a visiting Catholic priest, said about Hillary Clinton from the pulpit at Trinity United Church of Christ, prompting Obama to end his 20-plus year association with the church. "When Hillary was crying and people said that was put on, I really don't believe it was put on," proclaimed Pfleger, feigning tears...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's protests against a Barrington gun manufacturer are costly to taxpayers and his efforts are misdirected, Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran said Saturday. Jackson and a group of community residents, gun control advocates and ministers held a prayer vigil Saturday at Barrington gun manufacturer D.S. Arms. "D.S.Arms is a mere backdrop to our deepest concerns,” Jackson said, according to a release from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Jackson announced plans Saturday to enlist Barrington churches, city officials and students into a coalition to march against violence “in the tradition of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi...

Rev. Michael Pfleger still on forced hiatus after mocking Clinton With Rev. Michael Pfleger on a compulsory hiatus, St. Sabina Catholic Church parishioners carried on their beleaguered leader's fiery brand of activism at a gun-control demonstration Thursday in the wake of the death of the 26th Chicago Public Schools student killed this school year. St. Sabina has organized a protest at the James R. Thompson Center in downtown Chicago for each of the previous six slain Chicago Public Schools students, and Pfleger attended all of them. But the demonstration Thursday for 16-year-old Ignacio Montano, who was gunned down Monday, went...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago announced that Rev. Pfleger will be reinstated as the pastor of St. Sabina on June 16, after his removal following inflammatory comments about Hillary Clinton. Pfleger seems to be operating an independent cult within the Catholic Church, and he has so much power, that no Bishop or Cardinal dares to touch him. In 2002, Cardinal Francis George wanted to tranfer him out of St. Sabina, but he told the Cardinal to take a hike. He even dared the Catholic Chruch to fire him, and, astonishingly, the Archdiocese backed down: http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2008/05/pfleger_to_arch.html There is no other priest...

Barack Obama has set up a new Web domain, fightthesmears.com, which connects to his main Web site. Pay close attention to the method he is using to fight urban legends, because we can use the same methods to spread the truth about him. Invite your friends to spread the truth about Michelle. You can even use our email contact importer to make it easier. Don’t worry — we don’t hold on to any of the email addresses you share. To: Enter up to 10 email addresses above, separated by commas. ... we hereby kick off “Spread the Truth,” our answer...

Barack Obama: HATE We Can Believe In It is Barack Obama, not white voters, who has chosen to make this election an exercise not only in racial but also religious divisiveness, and even gender divisions. To paraphrase Martin Luther King, the problem is not the color of Barack Obama’s skin, but the content of his character or lack thereof. The problem is not that Barack Obama is of mixed race, but that he surrounds himself with racists, anti-Semites, Catholic-hating bigots, and even misogynists. Whites (and Jews, Catholics, and women) who refuse to vote for this phony smile on top of...

The South Side parish of St. Sabina exploded with shouts of joy and a standing ovation Sunday morning at the news firebrand Catholic pastor Rev. Michael Pfleger would be returning June 16. Cardinal Francis George temporarily removed the outspoken priest from his parish last week following comments Pfleger made about then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Pfleger had said Clinton believed she was entitled to the Democratic nomination because she is white. Pfleger is white, while most of his parishioners are African-American.

  June 9, 2008     This cartoon/graphic is free for noncommercial use in emails, blogs, and forums.  iowapresidentialwatch.com

Well, it looks like the Catholic Church in Chicago has lost whatever balls it found when it temporarily suspended Pfoaming-at-the-mouth preacher of hate Michael Pfleger for his racially poisoned sermon a few weeks ago. Because he’s baaaack. Again. The Chicago Trib reports that Obama’s longtime friend and earmark recipient will return to St. Sabina on June 16 after being placed on leave to “reflect” on his politicking from the pulpit. Question: Which Pfleger will come back and reassume his leadership position in the Catholic Church? The Hillary-mimicking, Vanilla Ice-prancing, Jeremiah Wright-impersonating reverend who has attracted a cult of supporters over...

The choir was booming, the dancers were swirling and open seats were scarce in the sweltering pews, but longtime members of St. Sabina Catholic Church thought Sunday's service was a bit flat in the absence of Rev. Michael Pfleger. Cardinal Francis George had ordered the fiery activist priest to take two weeks off after Pfleger's widely broadcast comments mocking Sen. Hillary Clinton and saying, in what he later called a slip of the tongue, that "America is the greatest sin against God."

CHICAGO (CBS) Father Michael Pfleger will return to the pulpit at St. Sabina Catholic Church on June 16, after Francis Cardinal George forced him to take a leave of absence over controversial comments about U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton. Pfleger created an uproar last month when he delivered a sermon at Trinity United Church Of Christ and mocked Clinton's tears on the campaign trail. George forced Pfleger to temporarily step down this week to reflect on those comments. "I have asked Father Michael Pfleger, Pastor of St. Sabina's Parish, to step back from his obligations there," the cardinal said in a...

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The very left-wing Catholic clericalism from which Obama hopes to derive votes in the fall served as the pretext for his leaving the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Just as Jeremiah Wright's over-the-top sermons could not have come as a surprise to Obama, so Father Michael Pfleger's hyper-partisanship would have been known to him as well. But Father Pfleger's timing and choice of a target were poor: his antics hit the Internet just as the Wright furor had begun to dissipate and instead of attacking a Republican for racism he selected Hillary Clinton. Maybe at another moment in...

Now that the anointed one, Barack Obama, will be the Democrat nominee for President, I'd like to submit just one more chapter to the painful book that is part of what defines him, his close-knit circle of radical activist advisors. This week in the Chicago Sun-Times, a chilling column appeared which featured an "exclusive" interview with Rev. Michael Pfleger, the Catholic priest whose ugly, racist rhetoric from the pulpit of Sen. Obama's chosen church led to the candidate's resignation from the congregation. Father Mike, as he is evidently known by people of questionable judgment who support him, wasn't particularly remorseful....

Delineate your suggestions for presumptive (D) nominee Barack Hussein Obama's Cabinet.Here's mine: Minister of Domestic Affairs - Jimmah Carter Minister of Foreign Affairs - Jerimiah Wright Minister of Propaganda - David Axelrod Minister of Terror -William Ayers Minister of Finance - Tony Rezko Minister without Portfolio - Michael Pfleger Ambassador to Israel - Louis Farrakhan

Father Pfleger did not like the Cardinal’s request. This is evident in the statement which was formally released by the Archdiocese of Chicago, which says, among other things: “Father Pfleger does not believe this to be the right step at this time. While respecting his disagreement, I have nevertheless asked him to use this opportunity to reflect on his recent statements and actions in the light of the Church's regulations for all Catholic priests. I hope that this period will also be a time away from the public spotlight and for rest and attention to family concerns." However Father Pflegers...

Who's Tony Rezko? William Ayers? Few Americans know, but they probably will by Election Day. Rezko is a Chicago businessman, convicted of more than a dozen charges this week. Ayers is a professor - and former member of the radical Weather Underground. Both have ties to Barack Obama and may well show up in anti-Obama ads you'll be seeing before long. These days, presidential candidates can expect to have every personal relationship, new or ancient, inspected like a crime scene on "CSI." Then, if there's political hay to be made, a version of the details is quickly out. Republican John...

UPDATE: Much like written words don't do justice to Jeremiah Wright's sermons, the video must be watched to be believed. Pfleger is introduced as "a friend of Trinity", and then the YouTube skips ahead to one section: I must now to address the one who says, 'don't hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.' But you have enjoyed the benefits of what your ancestors did! And unless you are ready to give up the benefits — Throw away your 401 fund! [sic] Throw away your trust fund! Throw away all the money that been put away in the company...

Father Pfleger is apartment hunting?Why? I know that the venerable Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago has directed him to vacate the premises of Saint Sabina’s for a pre-determined time (against Father Pfleger’s wishes)… But news reports (as follows) that he is apartment hunting like I was in my early 20s seems odd. On Tuesday morning, the cardinal called him at St. Sabina to tell him he thought he should take a leave of absence. Pfleger said no, the cardinal said he’d be forced to act, and by late afternoon, George had issued a statement saying, despite Pfleger’s protestations, he was going on...

With Barack Obama clinching the Democratic Party nomination, it is worth noting what an extraordinary moment this is. Democrats are nominating a freshman Senator barely three years out of the Illinois legislature whom most of America still hardly knows. The polls say he is the odds-on favorite to become our next President. Think about this in historical context. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were relatively unknown, but both had at least been prominent Governors. John Kerry, Walter Mondale, Al Gore and even George McGovern were all long-time Washington figures. Republican nominees tend to be even more familiar, for better or...

From A King To A Twin Late Wednesday afternoon, Pfleger moved a few of his belongings into an apartment he found close to the St. Sabina campus. "It's across the street," he told the Sun-Times by phone while his new place was being cleaned. "I bought a bed, too. American Mattress had a good deal on a twin," he said, adding that he couldn't take his bed at the rectory -- a king-size -- with him to the new place. "I went from a king to a twin." ... Fifty-two kindergartners, who already received their tiny caps and gowns, are...

Obama wins Democratic nomination. God damn BLESS America, McCain ‘08 The Democratic superdelegates have seen fit to play a sick practical joke on the American people by throwing their party’s nomination to an individual who is totally unqualified for any position of public trust or responsibility. Barack Hussein Obama’s outstanding speaking voice qualifies him to record books on CD or perhaps serve as a radio personality, but he lacks both the competence and personal character to hold public office. His actions overwhelm any words his powerful, melodic, and mesmerizing voice may deliver to his adoring and adulating groupies, and these...

Cardinal was much slower to remove a pedophile priest There's good reason for St. Sabina parishioners to be outraged that the Rev. Michael Pfleger is being forced out of St. Sabina. On Tuesday, Cardinal Francis George announced that Pfleger was asked to "step back" and take a "couple of weeks" leave from St. Sabina -- a response to the fallout over Pfleger's insulting remarks about Sen. Hillary Clinton during a sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ. » Click to enlarge image Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell Although Pfleger, who is both beloved and despised in Chicago, apologized for mocking Clinton...

Hillary to suspend campaign in DC Saturday By Salena Zito TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, June 5, 2008 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will announce the suspension of her campaign and her endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama as the Democratic Party's nominee, Saturday, in Washington D.C according to a statement issued Wednesday evening. The statement did not officially confirm her decision but said Clinton would be hosting an event in Washington, DC to thank her supporters and express her support for Senator Obama and party unity. According to the statement, the event will be held on Saturday to accommodate more of Senator Clinton's supporters...

'Snuff' the Gun Shop Owner, Priest Says By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor May 29, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - An Illinois gun-rights group says it plans to complain to the Catholic Church after a Chicago priest at the weekend appeared to call for the murder of a suburban gun shop owner. During a Rainbow/PUSH Coalition protest at Chuck's Gun Shop & Range on Saturday, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina's Church, threatened to "snuff" shop owner John Riggio. The Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) has posted online what is says is a recording of Pfleger's remarks. PflegerIn the audio...

Defiant St. Sabina parishioners demanded Cardinal Francis George reinstate their controversial pastor, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, just hours after he was removed Tuesday from his post against his wishes. "We respectfully request the cardinal immediately reinstate Father Pfleger as full pastor of St. Sabina," Gerald Stewart, president of the parish council, told an estimated 2,000 people packed into the South Side church Tuesday evening. The group included longtime Pfleger friend the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who has been blasted for his own controversial statements on race. Stewart said parishioners wanted an immediate meeting with the cardinal to discuss "the future of...

Hillary's not the ticket By Salena Zito TRIBUNE-REVIEW On a hot summer night in July 1980, an unorthodox idea floated around the halls of the Republican National Convention in Detroit. Started by the party's "Howard Baker wing," the buzz suggested it would be a good idea for the GOP to have nominee Ronald Reagan pick former President Gerald Ford as his running mate. To the Baker wing, that would solve their perception of Reagan being too conservative to win and would bring a fractured party together. But the former president would have none of it. Ford was no fan of...