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11/10/2008: "Louis Farrakhan says Obama's victory will allow him freedom of speech."

"For nine months, I kept quiet," Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said today at Mosque Maryam in Chicago, "because I saw that the good words that I spoke about this beautiful young man" - President-elect Obama - "at our Saviours' Day convention and the way they were misused. I decided it would be better for me to just be quiet rather than be drawn into the controversy that was swirling around his pastor, Father Pfleger, and others."

"I feel freer today to say the things that are in my heart," said the controversial religious leader.

[ He is going to be very disappointed. ]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/11/election-over-a.html