Obama and Radical Father Pfleger

Frontpage reports:

while Obama has promised to follow a new political model, one above the partisan jousting of Washington, his connection to Pfleger suggests that Obama is a practitioner of that oldest brand of partisanship: patronage politics. Thus, the Chicago Tribune has reported that between 1995 and 2001, when Obama was a state senator, Pfleger contributed some $1,500 to the young politician’s campaign. In what seems suspiciously like a quid pro quo, Obama later would pad the state budget with earmarks to favored constituents, steering some $225,000 in grants to St. Sabina. Despite condemning “business-as-usual in Washington,” Obama now stood revealed as a veteran of the traditional approach.

Michael Pfleger is not easily confused with Barack Obama. To Obama’s smooth, calming approach, he is gruff and outraged. Listen more closely, however, and it’s hard not to discern some similarities. When, in one recent sermon, Fr. Pfleger preached to his congregation -- “We can recover!” “We can recover!” -- it was impossible to miss the echo of Obama’s stump slogan, “Yes we can.”

You'll be hearing a lot more on Father Pfleger's views on guns.Count on it.