Flashback: When Father Pfleger Gave Campaign Contributions to Barack Obama and Obama Delivered Earmarks

With Obama linked radical Rev. Michael Pfleger in the news, it's flashback time:

Pfleger has had a longstanding friendly relationship (since the late 1980s) with Barack Obama and has played a significant role as a spiritual advisor for the latter. Between 1995 and 2001, Pfleger contributed a total of $1,500 to Obama's various political campaigns -- including a $200 donation in April 2001, approximately three months after Obama (who was then an Illinois State Senator) had helped steer $225,000 in grants to St. Sabina programs. (After Obama's 2004 election to the U.S. Senate, he would earmark an additional $100,000 in federal tax money for Pfleger's work.)

You might wonder how someone who has taken a vow of poverty has $1500 to donate to a Cook County Democrat politician like Barack Obama? Did you really think Obama believed in separation of church and state?