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June 10, 2008


Obama, faith and patriotism


Sam Greenfield on how questions about patriotism will affect the Obama campaign (2 of 3)


GREENFIELD: He wants to be president. He wants to be president. You know, do I want to be a faithful member of this guy who has turned on me, you know, or do I want to be president? The worst case to me is Father Pfleger, who, you know, does this Hillary as a white woman kind of thing, you know, and he's head of a predominantly black Catholic church. And the right is criticizing Obama over a guy who's not his minister. But I don't hear anybody criticizing McCain for embracing Jerry Falwell, who is a vile, anti-Semitic racist. You know, that's okay. Or Hagee, who's clearly insane. I don't hear that nearly to the extent I hear it from Wright. And one of the reasons is people in this country who aren't black do not have a concept of the black church.