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White Trash (Obama's Father Pleger "incident")
Cathie from Canada ^ | May 29, 2008

Posted on 05/30/2008 2:22:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

This is why Obama should have laughed off Rev Wright. Hillary would have. She would have just snorted "That's a minister for you, always preaching hellfire and damnation. Of course I'm not responsible for anything a minister says!"

But Obama didn't do that. He accepted the Republican frame that he was tied at the hip to the preacher in his church. He took it all seriously.

So now here we go again -- this time with a white guy, a Father Michael Pfleger, who belted out a mean-spirited, ugly, gratituous anti-Hillary skreed last Sunday at good old Trinity United:

". . . We must be honest enough to expose white entitlement and supremacy wherever it raises its head. I said before I don’t want this to be political because, you know, I’m very unpolitical (mocking tone, huge laughter). …When Hillary was crying (gesturing tears, uproarious laughter from audience)–and people said that was put on–I really don’t believe it was put on. I really believe that she just always thought ‘This is mine’ (laughter, hoots). ‘I’m Bill’s wife. I’m WHITE. And this is mine. And I jus’ gotta get up. And step into the plate. And then out of nowhere came, ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama.’ And she said: ‘Oh, damn!’ WHERE DID YOU COME FROM? (Crowd going nuts, Pfleger screaming). I’M WHITE! I’M ENTITLED! THERE’S A BLACK MAN STEALING MY SHOW. (SOBS!) SHE WASN’T THE ONLY ONE CRYING! THERE WAS A WHOLE LOTTA WHITE PEOPLE CRYING!"

Obama can't laugh this off now, that ship has sailed. So Obama has now released the usual deeply disappointed statement, and Pfleger has issued the usual blame-the-victim non-apology apology:

"I regret the words I chose on Sunday. These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama's life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them."

Gee, don't overdo it, eh?

No doubt we'll be seeing this video again and again.

And every time white Americans see it the subtext will be, Obama thinks you are white trash. Not exactly the message he wanted his campaign or candidacy to promote.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: 2008; boohoo; election; elections; hillary; obama; pastoreruptions; pfleger; reparations; trinityucc
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Interesting comments at Talk Left. Thanks for posting the link.

20 years ago Obama was a small fish in a South Side political pond.

He grew into a bigger fish in that pond.

The fish can't help but be contaminated and malformed.

Throw the fish back.

21 posted on 05/30/2008 5:01:00 AM PDT by syriacus (30,000 US deaths in Korea in 2 1/2 years, because Truman first withdrew troops from Korea in 1949.)
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To: normy

Bobarian’s Creed: Assh0les come in all colors and both genders.


22 posted on 05/30/2008 5:10:55 AM PDT by Bobarian (Green: It's the new Red.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

23 posted on 05/30/2008 5:18:32 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“What’s down in the well will come up in the bucket.” That should be the GOP’s line on Obama at every stop.


24 posted on 05/30/2008 7:29:38 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: flaglady47

Astonishing stuff. Whats worse is that fake-outs like this nutjob are nothing but racists of the worst sort.

The kinds who think they can go in there and civilize the natives. Im willing to be he doesnt regard those black folk in that church and “his” community as anything more than poor n*ggers, who hes going to save.

He’s offensive on so many levels, its incredible.


25 posted on 05/30/2008 7:57:27 AM PDT by ketelone
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To: ballplayer
Right it was Obama's "new pastor" that gave Pfleger the podium to say what he did. And it was his fellow church members that were laughing, clapping and urging him on.
26 posted on 05/30/2008 9:02:29 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"I regret the words I chose on Sunday. These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama's life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them."

IF?

What the heck kind of apology is that?

27 posted on 05/30/2008 10:42:22 AM PDT by oswegodeee (Dee) ( Born in the South and raised in a G_D centered home)
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To: flaglady47
All is true that you say.. Pfleger has galvenized himself and his parish, literally building a firewall around himeself! The only thing I heard this morning is that Cardinal George made him promise that he would not speak politics anymore.

And my take on that is?

Yeah Right!

28 posted on 05/30/2008 10:54:51 AM PDT by oswegodeee (Dee) ( Born in the South and raised in a G_D centered home)
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To: 7thson
As they used to say in the old west and what the British also said - he’s gone native.

AS they say today, He's gone WIGGER!

29 posted on 05/30/2008 10:56:48 AM PDT by oswegodeee (Dee) ( Born in the South and raised in a G_D centered home)
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To: LS; tajgirvan

I like your post! Additionally, I think the Fathers antics show 2 thing,imho! 1)he’s way into his femine side 2)see what happens if you don’t have a good woman to keep you grounded(no offense intended to my Catholic brethren)


30 posted on 05/30/2008 11:23:36 AM PDT by saltnlemons
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To: saltnlemons
2)see what happens if you don’t have a good woman to keep you grounded(no offense intended to my Catholic brethren)

He does have a good woman, he just isn't listening to Her.

31 posted on 05/30/2008 12:19:56 PM PDT by frogjerk (Barry Hussein is Neville Chamberlain)
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