Fool me twice, shame on me.
Hopefully American will wake up and see with what kind of people Obama chooses to hang out. This is his church and his friend (Rev. Pfleger).
Mocking of Clinton at Obama's Church Reverberates
CHICAGO -- Reverberations from the Sunday sermon of a Roman Catholic priest who mocked Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton at Senator Barack Obama's home church....
In a guest appearance at Trinity United Church of Christ, the priest, Rev. Michael Pfleger, who resigned about 2 weeks ago from the Obama campaign's Catholic advisory council, delivered a tirade against Mrs. Clinton that included fake tears, a high-pitched voice and top-of-the-lungs screaming. He also gave a racially tinged critique of so-called "white entitlement," of which he says Mrs. Clinton is guilty.
"When Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on -- I really don't believe it was put on," said Father Pfleger, 59, the white pastor of a predominantly black South Side church. "I really believe that she just always thought: '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, damn. Where did you come from? I'm white. I'm entitled. There's a black man stealing my show."
Father Pfleger, a well-known longtime activist and friend of Mr. Obama, issued an apology late Thursday. "I regret the words I chose on 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."
The Clinton campaign repeated on Friday, for a second day, its displeasure with how Mr. Obama has handled the situation, calling for him to reject Father Pfleger more forcefully.
In a statement issued Thursday, Mr. Obama, who was not at the church during the sermon, said he was "deeply disappointed" with Father Pfleger's "backward-looking" remarks.
The Clinton camp said it had hoped for more.
"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," said Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton. "We are disappointed that Senator Obama didn't specifically reject Father Pfleger's despicable comments about Senator Clinton, and assume he will do so."
On Friday, an Obama spokesman said the campaign had nothing new to add.
...Mr. Obama's strategist, David Axelrod,...adding that the priest had had only a small role in the campaign.
Whatever that role was, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Francis George, has demanded that it be over, the cardinal said in a statement released Friday.
... Father Pfleger has promised me that he will not enter into campaigning, will not publicly mention any candidate by name and will abide by the discipline common to all Catholic priests," Cardinal George said.
Father Pfleger's remarks were "both partisan and amount to a personal attack," he continued, adding, "I regret that deeply."
The flare-up was not well timed for Mr. Obama, who seemed to have finally put to rest similarly controversial remarks by his former Trinity pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
