'Pfleger's short answer? He didn't think the service and his "conversation" -- a more casual address than a classic sermon, he explained -- were being broadcast live online, as Trinity often does. 'They told me it was down,' Pfleger said. 'Their live streaming had been down all day, and they didn't know whether it was back up...I regret...that I was naive enough to believe (this) was just going to be kept among the church.' "
Let his answer marinade in your mind for a moment. The only reason he referred to Hillary Clinton as basically a white supremacist is that he thought the cameras weren't working.
It's been said that the very definition of integrity is how someone behaves when he or she thinks no one is watching. By that litmus test, this pathetic "priest" failed miserably. His total and complete moral abdication should disqualify him from being in a position to pastor anyone.
And his sorry excuse for an explanation comes right back to the doorstep of the man so many millions seem to think is the great hope for America, the junior senator from Illinois.
Is it possible that Sen. Obama condones such ugly language? Could it be that Barack and Michelle Obama are capable of surrounding themselves with white-hating racists? If two of Obama's three declared spiritual advisors are such bigots, what does that say about the judgment of the Democrat nominee for president, not to mention his views on race relations?
There is a good reason that so many working-class, white voters have refused to vote for Sen. Obama during the primary process. Despite the whining of the mainstream media, it's not that white voters are afraid to vote for a black man. It's that they are unwilling to vote for a man who chooses vicious, angry radicals to guide him through life's many challenges.
Obama and his supporters might hope that come November, the controversy over his spiritual advisors and mentors will have faded away.
Those who love and cherish this country cannot let that happen. This matters.
The very definition of integrity is how someone behaves when he or she thinks no one is watching.
This time, we're watching, Senator.