Father Pfleger may be a crusader, but he also knows what side his bread is buttered on:
Rev. Michael Pfleger, the politically active leader of St. Sabina Church . . . gave Obama’s campaign $1,500 between 1995 and 2001, including $200 in April 2001, about three months after Obama announced $225,000 in grants to St. Sabina programs.
P. defends himself flimsily:
“At a time when less people vote than ever, I don’t think pastors should be silent on politics,” Pfleger said.
He wants to say fewer, not less. I am shocked at that mis-usage more than at the money-passing, but am becoming inured to such violence to the king’s English.
And to elementary logic.
Didn’t Obama the other day on the Meet Russert show condemn Hillary (remember her?) for promoting a summertime gas-tax moratorium, calling it “a political response . . . “ — pausing, searching, as he does, and me wondering in amazement, he’s going to say “economic” problem? (which it most surely is) — and finally completing his thought: “. . . that we have neglected for decades”!
Does he mean there’s no such thing as a political answer to a longstanding problem? What does he think the 1965 voting rights law was?
He’s a whippersnapper who should go back to Columbia or Harvard for remediation.
Blithe Spirit 