Day: May 29, 2008

Father Pfleger on Hillary as racist

Hillary looked like a sure thing for president, but

“. . . 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.’”

That’s Chicago’s own Father Pfleger Sunday in O’s Trinity Church on 95th Street, citing Hillary Clinton as a case of “white entitlement and supremacy” which he felt bound to “expose.”

Addressing Rev. Otis Moss, the Trinity pastor and successor to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, he said from the pulpit:

“Reverend Moss, when Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on, I really don’t believe it was put on. 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.’

He

then mimicked Clinton crying as the audience erupted into applause and gave [him] a standing ovation.  . . . .  “She wasn’t the only one crying [he added]. There was a whole lot of white people cryin’.”  . . . .  Apparently realizing his remarks might attract media attention, Pfleger stated, “I’m sorry. I don’t want to get you into any more trouble.”

Moss thanked God for Pfleger’s comments.

Pfleger also pitched for reparations, demanding that whites give up their money to make up for slavery:

“Honestly now, to address the one who says, ‘Don’t hold me responsible for what my ancestors did.’ But you have enjoyed the benefits of what your ancestors did … and unless you are ready to give up the benefits, throw away your 401 fund, throw away your trust fund, throw away all the monies you put away into the company you walked into because your daddy and grand daddy. …”

Shouting, Pfleger continued, “Unless you are willing to give up the benefits then you must be responsible for what was done in your generation, because you are the beneficiaries of this insurance policy.”

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Keeping up with Gramps

The Big O. on his grandfather in Dreams of My Father:

“Gramps returned from the war never having seen real combat, and the family moved to California, where he enrolled at Berkeley under the GI bill,” he writes. “But the classroom couldn’t contain his ambitions, his restlessness, and so the family moved again.”

The Big O. in New Mexico on Memorial Day:

“My grandfather marched in Patton’s Army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you.”

The Big O. in a 2002 antiwar speech:

“My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain.”

He thinks he’s conning people in a South Side church basement.

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Keeping up with Gramps

The Big O. on his grandfather in Dreams of My Father:

“Gramps returned from the war never having seen real combat, and the family moved to California, where he enrolled at Berkeley under the GI bill,” he writes. “But the classroom couldn’t contain his ambitions, his restlessness, and so the family moved again.”

The Big O. in New Mexico on Memorial Day:

“My grandfather marched in Patton’s Army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you.”

The Big O. in a 2002 antiwar speech:

“My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain.”

He thinks he’s conning people in a South Side church basement.

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Quit Iraq? Now, when things are going so well?

Right, Al Qaeda was not in Iraq in 2003, concedes Ralph Peters in NY Post.  “But it’s 2008, not 2003. And our next president will take office in 2009. It’s today’s reality that matters.”

To argue the 2003 scenario is “as if, in June 1944, critics had argued from facts frozen in June 1939. (‘Why invade Normandy? Hitler’s content with Czechoslovakia.’)”

War’s not like that, says Peters.

[T]he situation changes, enemies evolve and goals shift. A war to preserve the Union becomes a war to end slavery; a war to defeat one set of totalitarian systems empowers a new network of tyrannies. It’s a rare war whose end can be forecast neatly at its outset.

How many newsies are saying that?

To date, not one “mainstream media” journalist has pressed the leading advocates of unconditional surrender to describe in detail what might happen after we “bring the troops home now.”

There’s plenty of unchallenged sloganeering, but no serious debate. This selective political softball and pep-rally journalism serves neither our country nor our political process well.

Consider these items that contribute to today’s lay of the land:

* After our troops reached Baghdad, al Qaeda’s leaders made a colossal strategic miscalculation and publicly declared that Iraq was now the central front in their jihad against us. Matter of record, in the enemy’s own words.

Some Sunnis “rallied to the terrorists,” at which point:

Al Qaeda in Iraq and its affiliates then embarked on a campaign of widespread atrocities: videotaped beheadings, mass bombings of civilians, assassinations, widespread rape (of boys and girls, as well as of women), kidnappings and brutal efforts to dictate the intimate details of Iraqi lives.

. . . .  Suddenly, those American “occupiers” looked like saviors.

Millions turned against al Qaeda, U.S. and Iraqi forces defeated them,

At present, the terror organization’s own Web masters admit that al Qaeda is nearing final collapse in Iraq.

So now we quit?

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