Posted on 05/29/2008 7:49:43 PM PDT by Salena Zito
Sen. Barack Obama issued a statement this afternoon after a video tape emerged showing Father Michael Pfleger 'speechifying' from the pulpit of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
In the statement Obama said he was "deeply disappointed" in Pfleger after his sermon was captured on videotape showing the priest mocking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and white people from the pulpit of Trinity, the home church of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Obama.
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As if the feminist supporters of Hillary weren’t pissed off enough to jump ship in November, this will do it for sure.
Get Geraldine Ferraro on the phone somebody.
Pity the guy is white. Can’t really make much use of the video.
He's taken Sam Kinneson's routine too seriously.
Oprah reportedly left this church years ago.
Since it is repeatedly showing itself to be a bigoted piece of trash. She needs to explain why she left and why she doesn’t hold any disregard for Obama staying despite several high profile ugly incidents.
Obama’s religion of antiamerican marxism includes a guy who tried to blow up the Pentagon and apologized on 9-11 that he didn’t kill MORE people.
THIS IS THE RELIGION OF HATE. THIS IS THE RELIGION OF OBAMA.
Color it liberalism.
That church hates white people because they are an african science experiment gone wrong and rich EYEtalian Europeans killed black jesus. Obviously you haven’t been paying attention to the sermons.
Who is this turd that he is defending? Coming in late here.
Cardinal George transferred Pfleger to another parish a few years ago (he’s pastor of St. Sabina’s) and Pfleger told him to shove it. For that, Pfleger should have been laicized within a week.
I have been told that George has received death threats. No direct connection between Pfleger and the death threats, but Chicago is a cesspool, socially and religiously. Andrew Greeley has famously written about a group of pedophile rapist-murderers among the priests of Chicago. He has NOT called the police with what he knows. He has put the info in a safe place, and made it known that the info will be released if he is ever found dead under suspicious circumstances.
Where did you see the video??? Youtube took it down hours ago.
Where did you see the video??? Youtube took it down hours and hours ago.
Where's my slave premium that I was supposed to have enjoyed so much?
That's the most important point to be made about this latest episode. Obama can continued to distance himself from the likes of Wright, Moss and the "Priest" but can he possibly distance himself from each and every church member that cheers on this racist crap? I don't think so.
For me this short video is telling on a variety of levels. The current Reverend, Mr. Moss, comes across as a jivin', playa-type who likes the fine threads. The "priest" is a white guy, who wants to be considered a fellow black racist, telling a black audience that generations of whites from the current one on down have to give up everything they own, have etc. before any "whites" can even be considered to be forgiven. And the congregation shows that even if he could say he was unaware for twenty years about the Rev. Wright's views, could Obama possibly claim he didn't know any of the corresponding views of fellow congregants?
This Trinity Church is filled to the brim with racists from top to bottom. Disgusting.
This new Obama incident is disgraceful, and ironic after the very surcessful trip of Pope Benedict XVI. Can’t Cardinal George of Chicago for goodness sakes step in and discipline this priest?
Thank-you for the address information. This priest is a disgrace to the RC Church of Chicago.
Did you ever notice *all* Obamas’ supporters are racists?
Even all the “white” ones?
This whole issue should be taken up with the Vatican because it looks like it has gotten out of control.
Please see post number 58.
decency. Hardly a word I would use to describe Pfleger. Anyway, he only gave the usual lefty non-apology apology. “I apologize if I’ve offended anybody.” He doesn’t apologize for what he said. He also claims to have chosen his words poorly, but he doesn’t apologize for the underlying sentiment.
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