Thursday, May 29, 2008

What is wrong with the water at Trinity Church in Chicago?

Fox news reports the newest strange goings on in Chicago at Obama's church:

Another Chicago minister is causing headaches for Barack Obama after he told the Democratic candidate’s church congregation Sunday that Hillary Clinton felt entitled to the presidency because she’s white.

The scary part is that this priest, Father Michael Pflegar sounded more like Rev Jeremiah Wright than any priest I have ever heard or known as a member of the Catholic church. Known as "Chicago's Renegade Priest", it is interesting that his wikipedia entry has been updated to reflect that Obama is unhappy:

On May 29, 2008, Pfleger was rebuked by presidential candidate Barack Obama for comments he delivered at a sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ. Pfleger had mocked Hillary Clinton, Obama's opponent for the Democratic Party nomination, saying, "I really believe that she just always thought, this is mine... Then out of nowhere came, 'Hey, I'm Barack Obama' and she said, 'Oh, damn. Where did you come from? I'm white. I'm entitled. There's a black man stealing my show.'" In response, Obama said he was "deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric". Pfleger later apologized in a statement released by Saint Sabina: "I regret the words I chose Sunday. These words are inconsistent with Sen. Obama's life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Sen. Clinton or anyone else who saw them."

Maybe the real scandal is that while Obama is willing to throw the white guy in his church under the bus, he has a problem when the person who says similar things like Reverend Wright is his pastor for 30 years. Hmmmm.

Read the Fox news article here.

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