Chicago Daily Observer

Pfleger chuckled when I asked if he would be in the Mile High City this week: “It would be feeding time if I went.”

The pastor of St. Sabina Church, a staunch Obama-ite, wants his candidate to “deluge the press” with programs that have not been top priorities in the campaign so far: racism, sexism, education and poverty. Pfleger cautions that Obama shouldn’t be diverted by “flavor of the day” issues such as high gas prices. “The president has to say, ‘I’m not willing to negotiate these things as second priorities.’ He must keep that moral focus.”

As we look toward Senator Obama delivering his acceptance speech this Thursday night, few, if any, mentors loom so large in Obama’s methodical march toward the presidency over the last quarter of the century, as State Senate President Emil Jones. From community organizer in Chicago to becoming the first African-American President of the Harvard Law School to being a practicing civil rights lawyer active in politics on the South side of Chicago to becoming a State Senator and a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School to becoming a U. S. Senator who would make and win the improbable run against the best the Democratic Party had to offer, i.e., the Clinton partnership of Hillary and Mr. Bill, there has been Senate President Jones, who spoke to Barack as recently as last Monday.

Of course, Jones and Obama are quite different in style, age and in their public persona. ... Read More...

The pundits have thoroughly dissected the answer that Barak Obama gave to Pastor Rick Warren’s question about abortion at the Saddleback Forum . . . but how many of them were really listening to the question that Warren had actually asked?

Contrary to prevalent accounts, Warren’s remarkably nuanced question did not ask the candidates to identify the point at which human life begins (even though Obama decided to answer as if that had been the actual question).

No, in formulating his question, Warren shrewdly departed from the anticipated conventional script for which Obama – despite his clumsy delivery – had undoubtedly prepared a few talking points.

Warren’s actual question was, “At what point does a baby get human rights?” At first glance, the difference may appear superficial. A closer examination shows otherwise; and, in his response, Obama inadvertently underscored the difference by attempting to cram a square peg into a ... Read More...

Barack Obama and the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers have worked closely together on education reform since 1995, and possibly since 1987. Obama has obfuscated and minimized this association in his public statements and on his website. Why the cover-up? We don’t know, since we aren’t sure what is being concealed.

It’s becoming known as the Annenberg Challenge cover-up and it’s become big news since the McCain campaign highlighted it in a press release late Wednesday.

In the past few days, Stanley Kurtz of the National Review has been trying to get access to the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an education reform group co-founded by Bill Ayers in 1995 and chaired by Barack Obama from 1995 to 1999. After originally giving Mr. Kurtz permission, the library then told him that he could not proceed because they did not have proper authorization from the donor of the archives. They would ... Read More...