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Obama Splits With Yet Another Clergyman
May 30th, 2008The campaign cuts ties with the Rev. Michael Pfleger
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that he was “deeply disappointed” by a supporter’s sermon at his church that mocked Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Associated Press is reporting. The Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Chicago activist, also apologized for last Sunday’s sermon at Obama’s church, in which he said Clinton’s 
eyes welled with tears before the New Hampshire primary because she felt “entitled” to the Democratic nomination and because “there’s a Black man stealing my show.” In video circulating on the Internet, Pfleger said the former first lady expected to win the nomination before Obama’s sudden popularity. (See the video below) “She just always thought that, ‘This is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m White.’ … And 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,’” Pfleger said at Trinity United Church of Christ. He then went on to parody Clinton, sobbing and wiping his face with a handkerchief. “She wasn’t the only one crying,” he said. “There was a whole lot of White people crying.”Obama won the Iowa caucuses, the first contest of the nominating season, in January. Days later, Clinton’s eyes brimmed with tears and her voice broke as she talked with New Hampshire voters on the eve of the primary, which she won. In a statement in which he cut ties with Pfleger, Obama said, “As I have traveled this country, I’ve been impressed not by what divides us, but by all that that unites us. That is why I am 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, the White pastor of predominantly Black Saint Sabina Roman Catholic Church on the city’s Southwest side, said he regretted his choice of words as he addressed the congregation of Obama’s church as a guest pastor 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,” Pfleger said.Clinton’s campaign denounced Pfleger’s comments.”Divisive and hateful language like that is totally counterproductive in our efforts to bring our party together and have no place at the pulpit or in our politics,” the campaign said in a statement. Pflager previously defended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright when he was under fire for his fiery sermons. Obama recently broke with Wright, who had been his longtime pastor, after video of his sermons blaming U.S. policies for the Sept. 11 attacks and his calls of “God damn America” became fixtures on the Internet and cable news networks and created a political problem for the candidate. Pfleger, known locally as a community activist and organizer, was arrested in June 2007 with the Rev. Jesse Jackson during a protest outside of a south suburban Chicago gun shop. The criminal trespass charges were later dropped.
I saw the vidoe this morning on the Today Show and I agree with everyone’s comments so far. That is how she feels and they are grasping at straws. I have to say that is was funny as hell though. It started my morning off on a funny note.
What kind of church does obama go to where the whole sermon is about Politics, those pastors need to stay in thier place!!!, they just should enjoy the collection plate money and preach the word!!.
Focus on the things that unite us as a people not the things that divide us. We have to push past the past to get to a new revolutionary future. And guess what? …Yes, we Can!
First of all ANYTHING said by Barack Obama will be scrutinized more thoroughly than any white candidate.If Obama walks by something that goes wrong he will be mentioned along with the problem.The press made a big issue of Michele Obama saying she was really proud to be an american at this time,I do not see what the problem is,because as a african-american we were not really considered or treated like real americans.
Does anyone remember hearing what Mr. McCain’s pastor said concerning Jewish people??? Of course you don’t because they swept it under the rug so fast you didn’t have time to listen. It really doesn’t matter who is elected into office. Because the person who is will spend most of their time cleaning up all of Bush’s mess they won’t have time to f*ck-up themselves.
This is the first election where the Reverends are center stage in the election process. I don’t see what the Reverends have to do with how the American people decides to vote. Father Pfleger is not running for a political office; Obama is. I think the media is biased and trying everything in their power to destroy Obama because they don’t have anything on him. I hope the American people can see through this foolish story. Hillary is only in this race to destroy the democratic party. She knows that she can’t win.
Who knew that pastors can destroy people chances into becoming president !!!!!
HOW CAN WE POSSIBLY BRING OUR NATION TOGETHER WHEN WE HAVE MINISTERS AT THE PULPIT MAKING HATE STATEMENTS? I AGREE WITH SENATOR OBAMA. I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT SENATOR CLINTON HAD THOSE THOUGHTS IN HER HEAD. SHE HAS DONE MORE FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY THAN HALF OF US WRITING IN THIS BLOG. I CERTAINLY THINK THAT OBAMA IS THE BETTER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BUT BECAUSE OF THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT I SHOULD SAY HATEFUL AND IGNORANT STATEMENTS TOWARDS CLINTON.
May the best man or woman win. This country needs to focus on unity.
thats very wrong to be honest i think that alot of people want Hillary to win but obama should win….but this is a hard election.
It needed to be told,what better person than a white priest to do it.
lol to Hillary Clinton!
I don’t know what it is with a lot of people in America, especially the news media. Whenever someone speaks the truth some Americans are offended by it, the truth has been swept under the rug long enough. Everything that was said by both clergymen was the absolute truth, and I don’t view either of them as unamerican for saying it. The truth is that America has done a lot of things that it should be ashamed of!
LOL to Obama, sit back,watch and learn. No r i o ts, no r i o ts please, if so just keep it in ur own sections like last time lol weirdos
I am so glad that I have met and listen to real men of God and heard there sermons.
Dont believe the hype people!
My people, white America will stop at nothing to try and tarnish this mans name. everytime someone comes out and says something negative and they “just happen” to be an Obama supporter, the media trys to drag this mans through the mud. i wouldn’t be surprised if both pflgher and wright weren’t both paid to do just that.
Pray for the preachers, people!
This country does need unity but it must heal first. SO PLEASE PEOPLE DEAL WITH REALITY !!! The reality is that this country was build on the backs of black people and white people must first admit their wrongs and being to correct them by stoping their racist ways and help us heal as a whole and then we must move on but until this happens we can’t. We all know the statements are true by both pastors, so get over it. I am so glad people are speaking out about racist and how it has so deeply hurt the black race ! Now God is good and he is using Obama to bring us together and I believe if we want togetherness then it will be granted.
The words said by Father Pfleger are just as bad as the 3 words Don Imus said and he should be fired from his job. Why is no one outraged? Why isn’t other of our publicity Reverands shouting how racist theses remarks were? Does the racial door not swing both ways? It’s a sad day when a priest can act like a comic at the pulpit.