On Apr 8, 7:01 pm, bowman <bow...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> scottlowt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > "In April 2004, Barack Obama told a re****ter from the Chicago Sun-
> > Times that he had three spiritual mentors or counselors: Jeremiah
> > Wright, James Meeks, and Father Michael Pfleger--for a change of pace,
> > a white Catholic preacher who has a close personal feeling for the man
> > he calls (as does Obama) Minister Farrakhan."
> > .
>
> As alledged by ex-Trot, Christopher Hitchens. That Communistic
> indoctrination sure does make able propaganda machines.
Nicely done. Well, if you define "nice" to be "simple-minded knee-jerk
reaction that involves no thought because it goes against built-in
ideology."
The sad thing about this very popular leftist rhetorical tractic of
attacking the messenger is that it is very easily defeated. What
"allegations", exactly, does Hitchins present? Well, he says this: "In
April 2004, Barack Obama told a re****ter from the Chicago Sun-Times
that he had three spiritual mentors or counselors: Jeremiah Wright,
James Meeks, and Father Michael Pfleger..." And due to the magic of
Google, we can find out whether that's true or not.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/falsani/726619,obamafalsani040504.article
"
Friends and advisers, such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St.
Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the Auburn- Gresham community on the
South Side, who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help
him keep that compass set, he says.
"I always have felt in him this consciousness that, at the end of the
day, with all of us, you've got to face God," Pfleger says of Obama.
"Faith is key to his life, no question about it. It is central to who
he is, and not just in his work in the political field, but as a man,
as a black man, as a husband, as a father.... I don't think he could
easily divorce his faith from who he is."
"
Sounds reasonably accurate to what Hitchins wrote.
As to the description of Pflegers anti-American activities... those
did *not* come from Hitchens. So, apparenly your problem is that
Hitchens said what an earlier newspaper article re****ted.
Nik and Eric must be so very, very proud. You see a valid complaint
made against an extreme leftist, and rather than dealing with the
issue, you try to change the focus instead to the guy who's pointing
out the problem. Well done.
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