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Posted: Tuesday, 16 January 2007 2:21PM
Local Priest Worried That Public May Not Be Ready For Obama
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CHICAGO (WBBM) -- Chicago's activist priest, Father Michael Pfleger, is concerned that Senator Barack Obama's high profile could make him a target for people who are not able to accept an African American in power.
WBBM's Steve Miller reports.
And today Father Pfleger, pastor at St. Sabina on the city's South Sdie, is out with a warning.
Father Pfleger says he has known Senator Obama for 20 years.
"I think Barack Obama is in a class of his own. I think he is the best thing that has come across the political scene since Bobby Kennedy."
And just as Kennedy was vulnerable, Pfleger is afraid that Obama is vulnerable, too.
"When anybody comes with that much hope, whether it's a Bobby Kennedy or whether it's a Martin Luther King Jr., they do become vulnerable. They become vulnerable because they tell the country and the world that we can be better and we don't have to accept what is. And unfortunately, we live in a world where not everybody wants it to be different."
So Father Pfleger is out with a warning: "Do not touch this man," he says, "for if you do, you will answer to us all."
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