Priest Who Mocked Clinton Again Draws Spotlight (

newsmax.com ^ | May 30, 2008 | staff

[kellynla]

CHICAGO -- He's a white priest at a largely black church. He's held hands with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. He's been arrested dozens of times and battled anyone he thinks has wronged his parish _ from gun dealers to a local Catholic sports league. Now the Rev. Michael Pfleger is something else: the latest thorn in the side of presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Racially charged comments Pfleger made last week mocking Obama rival Hillary Rodham Clinton _ as a guest at Obama's church, no less _ triggered a quick response from Obama, who wants nothing to do with a racial firestorm like the one generated by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

While Pfleger is not nearly as close to Obama as Wright had been, he has donated to the candidate's state Senate and presidential campaigns and sat on a Catholics for Obama committee until a few weeks ago. When Obama was in the Illinois Legislature, he helped land more than $200,000 in state grants for outreach programs run by Pfleger's church.

Obama made it clear he wasn't happy with the comments _ in which Pfleger pretended he was Clinton crying over "a black man stealing my show" _ and said he was "deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause."

Pfleger, too, issued an apology, saying he was sorry if his comments offended Clinton or anyone else. He did not return several calls for comment on Friday.

[kellynla]

"When Obama was in the Illinois Legislature, he helped land more than $200,000 in state grants for outreach programs run by Pfleger's church...For his part, Pfleger, 59, has donated $1,500 to Obama's campaigns for state office and another $1,500 to his presidential campaign.

At times, there has been talk of diocesan officials reassigning Pfleger, but he is immensely popular in his parish and has helped it thrive over the past quarter-century..."

Yea, Pfleger has been "immensely popular" preaching anti-white racism to blacks...a reeeeeeeeeeel Christian!

[kellynla]

ping

[pnh102]

This guy reminds me of a reverse version of Clayton Bigsby.

[Ann Archy]

Archbishop George had better do SOMETHING to this priest NOW!!! Also Trinity and St. Sabina’s TAX EXEMPT STATUS needs to be pulled NOW also!

[Jeff Chandler]

He do know how to play to da crowd.

[Jeff Chandler]

Archbishop George had better do SOMETHING to this priest NOW!!!

Why? What makes you think he actually disapproves?

Also Trinity and St. Sabina’s TAX EXEMPT STATUS needs to be pulled NOW also!

The IRS doesn't do that to Democrats.

[kellynla]

And for those who like me who are not too familiar white Michael Pfleger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pfleger

[Ann Archy]

yeah, no kidding.

[popdonnelly]

I was raised a Catholic, and this nasty snot-nose is like no priest I ever knew.

[M203M4]

Pfleger - another racist for Obama! He keeps racking them up.

[kbennkc]

The congregation does not seem offended at all by the Cedric the Entertainer style . I can take a joke , but I know it is a joke when Eddie Murphy or Dave Chappelle imitates whitey .

[Palladin]

I wonder what Pfleger’s adoptive black sons have to say about all this.

I still can’t fathom why anyone would allow a Catholic priest to adopt boys in the current climate and condition of the Church.

[Jeff Chandler]

When Wright does it, it’s authentic, but Feltcher is nothing but a wannabe.

[SandRat]

May this “Priest” draw a TV Broadcast command audiance with the Holy Father and the Holy Father S-N-A-T-C-H the “Priest's” collar off! Then the Holy Father order his Swiss Guards to unceremoniously kick the B-U-M out of the Vatican grounds.

[stylin19a]

newsmax must have missed this 2004 Chicago sun-times article.

These days, he says, he attends the 11 a.m. Sunday service at Trinity in the Brainerd neighborhood every week -- or at least as many weeks as he is able. His pastor, Wright, has become a close confidant....

Friends and advisers, such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the Auburn- Gresham community on the South Side, who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help him keep that compass set, he says....

Another person Obama says he seeks out for spiritual counsel is state Sen. James Meeks, who is also the pastor of Chicago's Salem Baptist Church. The day after Obama won the primary in March, he stopped by Salem for Wednesday-night Bible study.

[Arthur McGowan]

Pfleger gives the orders to Cardinal George, not the other way around. Pfleger’s gang and mob pals make sure the Cardinal knows what’s good for him.

[Arthur McGowan]

Pfleger gives the orders to Cardinal George, not the other way around. Pfleger’s gang and mob pals make sure the Cardinal knows what’s good for him.

[Anti-Bubba182]

This pasty faced Priest is a black radical with a white hide. He goes over well in radical Chicago circles but he is almost as big a millstone on Obama as Wright.

[fr_freak]

I still can’t fathom why anyone would allow a Catholic priest to adopt boys in the current climate and condition of the Church.

What the hell does that mean? Are you one of those "All Catholic priests are child molesters" people?