From the Left: Obama’s pesky connections
(The Patriot Post) - Barack Obama announced that he was ending his 20-year membership in the Trinity United Church in Chicago this week, months after his former pastor and mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright drew heat for his racist, anti-American rants. Early on Obama tried to claim that Wright’s hateful words had been cherry-picked by a media eager to tear him down, but how often does one need to say that America got what it deserved on September 11, 2001, before one surmises that the person is a loose cannon?
Then there is Father Michael Pfleger, also a former “spiritual advisor” to the Illinois senator. Pfleger, the Caucasian pastor of Chicago’s Saint Sabina, a Roman Catholic church located in a mostly black parish, is the same type of racist rabble-rouser and America hater as Wright. Pfleger, in fact, is associated with all the big names in white-hating America: Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson, West and the like. Of Hillary’s tearful moment in New Hampshire, Pfleger said, “I really don’t believe it was put on. I always thought she felt, ‘This is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white. And this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate.’ And then out of nowhere came, ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama.’ And she said, ‘Oh d***, where did you come from? I’m white. I’m entitled. There’s a black man stealing my show’.” In another rant-filled “sermon,” Pfleger declared, “Racism is still America’s greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.”
Obama wasted little time in addressing the issue this go-around, saying he was “deeply disappointed” in Pfleger, and that he “doesn’t reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause.” Way to get tough, Barry.
Another Obama associate, Chicago fundraiser Tony Rezko, was convicted Wednesday on 16 of 24 counts, including fraud, money laundering and political corruption. He will be sentenced on 3 September. Rezko and Obama entered into a sweet real-estate deal in 2005, which helped Obama purchase a posh home in Chicago. After Rezko’s indictment, Obama returned $150,000 to Rezko associates and donated $72,650 to charity, an amount equal to Rezko’s contributions to Obama’s campaign. He added that he was “saddened” by news of the conviction and that he “isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew.” Funny, but that statement seems to apply to a lot of Obama’s close friends.
Then there is Father Michael Pfleger, also a former “spiritual advisor” to the Illinois senator. Pfleger, the Caucasian pastor of Chicago’s Saint Sabina, a Roman Catholic church located in a mostly black parish, is the same type of racist rabble-rouser and America hater as Wright. Pfleger, in fact, is associated with all the big names in white-hating America: Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson, West and the like. Of Hillary’s tearful moment in New Hampshire, Pfleger said, “I really don’t believe it was put on. I always thought she felt, ‘This is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white. And this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate.’ And then out of nowhere came, ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama.’ And she said, ‘Oh d***, where did you come from? I’m white. I’m entitled. There’s a black man stealing my show’.” In another rant-filled “sermon,” Pfleger declared, “Racism is still America’s greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.”
Obama wasted little time in addressing the issue this go-around, saying he was “deeply disappointed” in Pfleger, and that he “doesn’t reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause.” Way to get tough, Barry.
Another Obama associate, Chicago fundraiser Tony Rezko, was convicted Wednesday on 16 of 24 counts, including fraud, money laundering and political corruption. He will be sentenced on 3 September. Rezko and Obama entered into a sweet real-estate deal in 2005, which helped Obama purchase a posh home in Chicago. After Rezko’s indictment, Obama returned $150,000 to Rezko associates and donated $72,650 to charity, an amount equal to Rezko’s contributions to Obama’s campaign. He added that he was “saddened” by news of the conviction and that he “isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew.” Funny, but that statement seems to apply to a lot of Obama’s close friends.
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