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110 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography

trouble. Moss also had a policy of inviting incendiary racist provocateurs to join him during divine
services at Trinity United. One of these firebrands was a certain Father Michael Pfleger, a fiery
liberal social activist of the liberation theology school and a white reverend at an African-American
church, St. Sabina’s Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago. Pfleger, an expert in racial
pandering, is a longtime friend and associate of Obama, having known him since the Perfect Master
was a community activist poverty pimp. In September, the Obama campaign had brought Pfleger to
Iowa to host one of several interfaith forums for the campaign. So here we have yet another close
personal friend of Obama over more than two decades who turns out to be a race-baiting
provocateur.


Pfleger’s appearance at the post-Wright Trinity United was introduced by Rev. Otis Moss
personally with much praise for the visiting priest. Pfleger then launched into a tirade about the
importance of taking on “white entitlement and supremacy wherever it raises its head.” This goes
back directly to the classic Weatherman line of “white skin privilege” still embraced by Dohrn and
Ayers. Pfleger then turned his attention to those who have the temerity to oppose the ascendancy of
the Perfect Master: “Rev. Moss, when Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on, I really
don’t believe it was put on,” Pfleger raved from the pulpit. “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 gotta 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!’
Pfleger then mocks Hillary weeping, much to delight of the crowd, many of whom stand up and
applaud. “She wasn’t the only one crying, there was a whole lot of white people crying!” Pfleger
says to laughter. The tape, which shows only this one controversial part of Pfleger’s “sermon,” then
cuts to Moss thanking Pfleger: “We thank God for the message, we thank God for the messenger,
we thank God for Father Michael Pfleger,” Moss says.’ (Aaron Klein, World Net Daily, June 1,
2008)


PFLEGER: “AMERICA IS THE GREATEST SIN AGAINST GOD”


“Racism is still America’s greatest addiction,” Pfleger says. “I also believe that America is the
greatest sin against God.” There seems to be a mixed reaction to that from the pews. But Pfleger
explains: “If the greatest command is to love, than the sin against love must be the greatest sin
against God who IS love and who calls us to love one another. So that this greatest sin against God,
racism, it’s as natural as the air we breathe.” (Taylor Marsh, June 1, 2008) The New York Times
recently reported that Father Pfleger had “long worked with South Side political leaders to reduce
crime and improve the community” — so being a racist provocateur is only a sideline. “But he has
drawn fire from some quarters for defending the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and
inviting him to speak at his church.” (Jake Tapper, “Priest and Obama Ally Mocks Clinton’s Tears
from Obama’s Church’s Pulpit,” ABC New, May 29, 2008)


There could now be absolutely no doubt that Obama’s church represents an incendiary beacon
and clearing house of racist provocation, is the atmosphere of race-baiting and scurrilous insults
which Obama chose and embraced, not just for himself but for his entire family. Obama long
remained a member of this cesspool of hatred, thus guaranteeing that the entire issue will live on all
the way to the November election. ‘Sen. Barack Obama’s chief political strategist sits on the finance
committee of the Chicago church led by controversial pastor Michael Pfleger, who claimed in a
sermon last weekend Sen. Hillary Clinton cried in public because she thought being white entitled
her to the Democratic presidential nomination.’ (Aaron Klein, World Net Daily, June 1, 2008)

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