Wow. I just got a look at that Pfleger video. I'm stunned.

[Bucky]

It's like the pastors are out to destroy the Obama campaign. How does a minister talk like this and then pass himself off as a Christian? Why aren't their parishioners getting up and walking out on hateful language like that?

Let me clarify where I stand--I'm an unwavering Obama supporter. But this is cringe inducing. Pfleger is seems to be out there trying to whip up racial divisions. Would Jesus do that? No, I think Jesus drove people like that out of the temple. Christians are supposed to believe in healing. This man has not interest in healing--his intent is to divide and create hatreds and animosity.

I've always said race is dumb and all discussions of race tend to quickly turn Americans into blithering, mewling idiots. The Rev. Pfleger just proved my point. So did the vast majority of the parishioners at Trinity who applauded this political speech.

I've never liked much the way the Clintons have run their campaign, but Pflegar's characterization of her is simply unhinged from reality. This supposed "friend" of Obama is stabbing him in the back. I simply do not understand people who think like this, who have values that justify this kind of hateful speech.

I'm a liberal first and I believe wholeheartedly in the separation of church and state. Churches with preachers who take sides in political contests need to lose their non-profit status. I know Pfleger and Wright before him are "supporting" the same candidate as me, but there is nothing liberal about them and the divisions they seek to widen. Barack Obama in his speeches speaks of racial healing. Pfleger and Wright seek only to profit by racial divisions.

I'm a liberal first and I believe that we should treat our fellow countrymen with dignity and generosity even when we disagree with them politically. I believe in responsibility and that before you can tell someone else to clean up their side of the fence, you should first clean up your own side of the fence. The Revs Pfleger & Wright are part of the mess on my side of the fence. They hurt the man best suited to leading this country. They hurt liberalism. They hurt all of us. It is not enough to apologize--and I notice that Pfleger's apology included that nullifying word "if"--they should atone for the damage they do.

However, I have little hope that they will. Damn them.