Obama has become target of sick minds (barf alert)

The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | April 2, 2008 | Andrew Greeley

[cdga5for4]

When Chicagoans who know Sen. Obama read the columns about him turned out by the national punditocracy, we tend to gasp and shake our heads in bemusement. He has become an ink blot for sick minds, very clever sick minds. Call up realclearpolitics.com and see what I mean. My favorite recent outbursts of hate come from Thomas Sowell, an African-American conservative economist, and from Naomi Schaefer Riley, the "assistant taste editor" of the Wall Street Journal (which title may be an oxymoron). Both write about Obama's connection with the Trinity United Church of Christ.

[detch]

Andrew Greeley calls himself a Catholic priest.

He is no way endorsed or supported by the Catholic Church.

He disgusts me. He is an over-the-top liberal, political hack of the worst kind, NEVER OBJECTIVE on any political topic, and almost all of his his published pieces spew politics, NOT theology.

He writes of Iraq and the Middle East in his anti-Bush diatribes, uses the Vietnam War as an analogy. He knows NOTHING about the Middle East, even less about the Vietnam War. Now he's a political hack for Obama and Jeremiah Wright.

[DarthVader]

The Church is filled with heretics in the pulpit

[DarthVader]

Greely is a “Berrigan” type of Catholic priest.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

" The people, including the young ones, are the best dressed and best groomed congregants I have ever seen, and they emerge from the most elegant collection of cars displayed in Sunday morning Chicago. No Catholic parish in Chicago I know of displays such relaxed prosperity on a Sunday. "

What on earth is that supposed to mean and what does that have to do with anything? This is like saying he can vouch for Farrakhan's theology because he wears great bow ties from Burberry's. As for the "elegant collection of cars" comment, there is a line about serving God and Mammon that comes to mind. Perhaps Fr. Greeley remembers it from the seminary when he was still a Catholic.

Good grief. This fake priest porn novelist is sure they can't be racists, "why, look at their cars."!!! Does naive liberalism get any better than this???

[detch]

My first thought with your comments about Greeley were “Look to what depth Greeley has fallen — materialism, materialism, materialism...”

On the other hand, perhaps he has always been that way, and about as far from the vow of poverty that any priest could be.

[Beckwith]

What does it tell you when the notorious Marxist, the Rev. Andrew Greeley is on your side?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

He's about 80 now so maybe he is going senile.

But by his theological and spiritual training he should be sophisticated enough to know that external appearances (fashion and luxury automobiles) do not confer exemption from original sin or bigotry.

But why is he so familiar with this congregation on Sunday mornings? Aren't there Catholic parishes in Chicago that need a priest to say Mass or people in a hospital who need the sacraments? Why is he bowing before the Gospel of prosperity and elegant automobiles?

His article is inappropriate for a Catholic priest. Wright's sermons were bigoted and racist while the congregation cheered. And Obama is a pro-abortion maniac who deserves no help in his quest for power by a Catholic priest, albeit a crazy, old, senile one, overly impressed by freshly-waxed Cadillacs, Lincoln Continentals, Mercedes, and Jaguars. Is he really that naive not to know this is a stereotype?

[ApplegateRanch]

Decent people pick up and move on when the pastor goes in that direction. We all make our choices — the Bible tells us that humans often make bad choices, but we are called upon to try to do the right thing.

Decent people STAY, and send the false preacher packing, before he leads any more of God's children astray.

It is CHRIST's church, not the pulpit-pounder's; and Paul explicitly told us what to do with anyone bearing/preaching false doctrines.

It is past time to go Biblical on these of whom we were warned, and drum them out of our midst.

[ApplegateRanch]

But why is he so familiar with this congregation on Sunday mornings? Aren't there Catholic parishes in Chicago that need a priest to say Mass or people in a hospital who need the sacraments?

I believe he splits those duties, week on/week off, with the other Catholic priest in Chicago, Father Pflegler...unless participation in obligatory demonstrations forces such 'mundane' ministry duties onto the back burner.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Still, it's hard to believe that even an 80-year-old crackpot modernist liberal like Greeley would be so stupid not to know that flashy cars reveal nothing distinctive about such a congregation.

Next, he will tell us he is sure Obama could never support vulgar, trash-mouth racism because he went to Harvard and wears stylish suits.

[RipSawyer]

. He is no more a priest than my horse is.
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Probably much less so, a good horse can be an inspiration.