Chicago Daily Observer

Barack Obama has thrown Rev. Michael Pfleger under the bus. Pfleger took Hillary to task, claiming she felt she should win over a black man.

CBS News notes that Pfleger is “another pastor friend.”

But he’s much more than that. Pfleger and Obama have had a long relationship. Pfleger backed Obama against Bobby Rush when Obama ran in 2000 for Congress.

Already by that time, Pfleger was on record supporting radicals like Louis Farrakhan.

Pfleger is a campaign contributor to Obama, in addition to being yet another “spiritual mentor,” and Obama got a $225,000.00 earmark for Pfleger’s church when Obama was in the state legislature in Illinois.

When Republican county chairmen recruited Martin Ozinga III of Homer Glen to step into the race for the 11th Congressional District seat, they secured what appeared to be a wealthy, successful businessman to the ticket with little political background.

Ozinga, 58, is certainly well off. According to his federal candidate financial disclosure, he earned $478,421 last year as president of the Ozinga Bros. ready-mix concrete company and 26 other companies and entities that he runs or is affiliated as a board member.

His individual and jointly held assets, which are declared in broad ranges of value, amounted to between $6.5 million to $25.2 million last year. They generated between $1.2 million and $6.2 million in additional income.