We are getting a clearer picture today on how Obama is tied to the controversial Catholic Priest, Father Michael Pfleger and surprise, surprise, it involves money flowing in both directions.
The Chicago Tribune ran a story today titled “Cardinal George weighs in on Pfleger flap” reporting that the Cardinal of Chicago, Francis George, announced that Pfleger has agreed not to campaign from the pulpit for the remainder of this election year. But you have to read a little farther to get to the meat. Toward the end of the article the following is written:
In a Tribune story a year ago, Obama defended special budget earmarks for his district while he was a state legislator, including ones that went to programs associated with Pfleger’s church.
Pfleger gave Obama’s campaigns $1,500 between 1995 and 2001, including $200 in April 2001, about three months after Obama announced at least $100,000 in grants to St. Sabina programs.
So as a state senator, Obama helped secure money for Pfleger. That’s at least $100,000 for Pfleger’s work according to the Chicago Tribune. This only manages to strengthen the entanglement in which Obama finds himself in regarding the controversial priest who crafted the inflammatory sermon that was delivered to Trinity Church.
It only gets worse for Obama. While it’s well reported that Pfleger has helped the disadvantaged, it is also quite clear now that Pfleger is a well known proponent of Nation of Islam leader Luis Farrakhan and the love is apparently mutual. Watch for yourself:
I wonder how Pfleger felt when Obama rejected the endorsement of Farrakhan?
Also, it’s almost surreal that the rookie senator from Illinois that is trying to become the leader of the United States of America has called Pfleger as one who helps Obama keep his “moral compass.” The following is written in a 2004 Chicago Sun Times article:
“The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass.”
Friends and advisers, such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the Auburn- Gresham community on the South Side, who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help him keep that compass set, he says.
We have a 20-year relationship between Jeremiah Wright and Obama and a 20-year relationship between Michael Pfleger and Obama. Obama’s campaign has already started to try to erase his connection with Pfleger. Unfortunately for them, there is this little persistence problem for them with the journalism in Chicago that has accurately chronicled a long and likely politically important relationship for Obama with Pfleger.
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