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Guilt by Association Strikes Again

Apparently, the new pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ did not get the memo that a member of his congregation is actually attempting to become the next president of the United States. So, he invited Father Michael Fleger to speak at the church.

Whether the new pastor knew what Father Fleger was going to do or not, he should have known that the Father would be controversial. Fleger has called Louis Farrakhan one of the best Bible scholars in America today and apparently, has some rather strong beliefs about the concept of white entitlement. We know that he has these opinions because he said so, from the pulpit of Barack Obama’s church last weekend. Oh, and for the record, Father Fleger is white.

Ugh. Are you really that big of a supporter of the other side, Father Fleger?  Surely, you had to know that mocking Hillary Clinton and claiming she felt entitled to the nomination because she is white would have a horrid backlash against Senator Obama. You can’t really expect anyone to believe that you thought claiming she and other white Americans were crying because of the loss of their entitlement would be good for Barack, can you?  Are we supposed to believe that the priesthood left you stupid?

Father Fleger, perhaps because he really believes it, claimed from the pulpit that Senator Clinton was upset because she thought she was entitled to the presidency because she is white. Umm, hello?  Since we have had so many white women as president before, his logic seems a bit faulty. Sure, there may have been a sense of entitlement in Hillary, but I don’t think it had anything to do with her race. It had to do with the work she put in. She thought the years of standing by Bill through his shenanigans and working for the party would earn her the nomination. If anything, the party showed Hillary that a charismatic man would be preferred to a hard-working woman.

That is by no means a slap at Seantor Obama. I like Obama. I voted for him in my primary election and will probably vote for him again in November. But seriously, he did kind of sneak in out of nowhere and win the election that she had been working toward for years. Notice I didn’t say he stole it.  Senator Obama obeyed the rules and did things right and deserves to win. Senator Clinton screwed up. She trusted image makers who cannot connect with real people in America and she trusted the Democratic Party which has shown oh-so-much concern for women over the years. She threw her own people under the bus, like Geraldine Ferraro, instead of saying that “Yes, it matters that Barack is a black man. It’s not a reason to vote against him, but it has made him a ’special’ candidate just like being a woman mae me a ’special’ candidate.”

Barack won the contest, obeying the rules as they were explained to him and now people want to change the rules about Michigan and Florida. That, Mrs. Clinton, is your mistake. You can claim that you want every vote to count, but everyone can see that you don’t like the outcome, so you want to change the rules.  That makes you someone I do not want to play games with, but does not make you guilty of feeling entitled to the job based on your race. Unfortunately, for Father Fleger to say so smacks of his own liberal white guilt or an attempt to sabotage Barack Obama.

Surely everyone associated with the church knows by now that whatever happens in that pulpit will be fodder for talk show hosts and another way to point fingers of guilt by association at Barack. So, what were you thinking, Father Fleger?

Was this some sort of revenge against Obama for his disavowing the sermons of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright? Are you a closet supporter of white entitlement?  Did you just get so wrapped up in preaching a popular message to a black church that you were willing to cut off the favored son for your own fifteen minutes of fame?

As far as I know, Barack Obama has no control over the pulpit of the church he attends, at least not anymore than any other congregation member and yet he is beat up again and again because of the people in the pulpit. Maybe the pulpit ought to pay more attention to preaching the word of God and less attention to preaching the politics of the country!

Barack’s opponents use this same tactic to blast him over a prfoessional affiliation with William Ayers, an English professor and former member of the Weather Underground.  Apparently, every person that Barack encounters is an opportunity for people to cast aspersions on his judgment, ethics and character. Until this week though, it had died down and people were talking about issues–that is until Father Fleger opened his mouth and secured the world with the knowledge that he is either a fool or an agent working against Obama.

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