Posted by Jed Lewison on Fri May 30, 2008 at 12:55 AM Pacific

Another overwrought attack from the Clinton campaign

Here's the background: Father Michael Pfleger, a Catholic priest from Chicago who has known Barack Obama for years, gave a guest sermon at Trinity this past weekend. In his sermon, he mocked Hillary's tears in New Hampshire and suggested she was crying merely because she had felt she was entitled to the the nomination based on her relationship with Bill and the fact that she was white.

In some ways it was reminiscent of Geraldine Ferraro's attack on Obama as a sexist, except Ferraro was once a part of the Clinton campaign, and she went on national television. Pfleger made his remarks from the pulpit of a church in Chicago. Here's a video of Pfleger and Ferraro side-by-side, if you're interested in making the comparison.

Anyway, Barack Obama gets out ahead of the story and flatly condemns Pfleger's remarks:

I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause.

Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that the Clinton campaign was unhappy with Barack's condemnation. Here's Howard Wolfson's response:

We are disappointed that Senator Obama didn't specifically reject Father's Pflegler's despicable comments about Senator Clinton, and assume he will do so.

Huh? Does Howard live on the same planet as you and me? "Divisive" and "backward-loooking" aren't good enough? Expression deep disappointment isn't good enough? What do they want him to do? Curse up a storm? For crying out loud!

Someone over in Camp Clinton needs to chill out. Seriously -- take a deep breath.