A right mess

Twice I have picked on Jacques Berlinerblau, a professor at Georgetown who writes regularly for the Washington Post. But today I must give credit where credit is due, he comes up with the funniest line I have seen lately, about the deranged racist Michael Pfleger.

The action took place last Sunday at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Yes. That Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago! This time, however, the valedictory is made not by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but by a white Chicago Catholic priest by the name of Rev. Michael Pfleger.
During his sermon, Father Pfleger mocked Hillary Clinton’s tears before the New Hampshire primary. He opines that she cried because she felt “entitled” because she is white “and there’s a black man stealing my show.” Father Pfleger apologized late Thursday for the remarks, saying his sermon was “inconsistent with Senator Obama’s life and message.”

But by delivering his remarks, Father Pfleger seems to have officially submitted his entry to the What Else Can We At Trinity Do to Further Assure that the United States Does Not Have Its First African-American President Any Time Soon? video competition. And this application has “Finalist” marked all over it.

My past criticisms of Berlinerblau were for being frivolous and foolish. Here, I simply do not know whether Berlinerblau’s funny line is accurate. My suspicions that Obama is a black nationalist with a racist streak are growing, but its effect on my voting will be nil. It is pretty clear he is Jimmy Carter revisited, and that Hillary would make a substantially better president. Granted, in many respects they would be similar, but if Hillary had been president on 9/11, she would have started wondering who to nuke, whereas Obama would have started making a list of people to apologize to. But how other voters think, I do not know.