Ex-Obama pastor: 'Obama threw me under the bus'

[The Northerner]

NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press that he is "toxic" to the Obama administration and that the president "threw me under the bus."

In his strongest language to date about the administration's 2-year-old rift with the Chicago pastor, Wright told a group raising money for African relief that his pleas to release frozen funds for use in earthquake-ravaged Haiti would likely be ignored.

"No one in the Obama administration will respond to me, listen to me, talk to me or read anything that I write to them. I am 'toxic' in terms of the Obama administration," Wright wrote the president of Africa 6000 International earlier this year.

"I am 'radioactive,' Sir. When Obama threw me under the bus, he threw me under the bus literally!" he wrote. "Any advice that I offer is going to be taken as something to be avoided. Please understand that!"

The White House didn't respond to requests for comment on Monday about Wright's remarks. Several phone messages left by the AP for Wright at the Trinity United Church of Christ, where he is listed as a pastor emeritus, were not returned. Wright's spokeswoman, his daughter Jeri Wright, did not immediately comment on the substance of the letter.

Then-Sen. Obama cut ties with Wright when his more incendiary remarks became an Internet sensation in the spring of 2008. At a National Press Club appearance in April 2008, he claimed the U.S. government could plant AIDS in the black community, praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and suggested Obama was putting his pastor at arm's length for political purposes while privately agreeing with him.

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[mzteris]

1. too bad he seems to have

dodged the wheels. . .

[Brickbat]

2. "He threw me under the bus literally!"

:rofl:

[NJmaverick]

3. Was it an express or local or tour bus?

[progressoid]

6. Ridiculous right?

Hell, he can hardly knock down two pins in bowling. I doubt he could throw an entire preacher under a bus.

[brendan120678]

8. I was about to point out the same thing.

"Literally"
"That word, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

[Jefferson23]

4. "was putting his pastor at arm's length for political purposes while privately agreeing with him."

And that was what essentially broke the camels back. Obama defended him, in what will be remembered as one of his
greatest speeches. But that wasn't good enough for Wright evidently, and Obama then disengaged, and rightfully so.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. Jeremiah Wright helped himself along.

It seems he couldn't keep his mouth shut for six critical months.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. He is old news now, but this may cause some doubt for future partnerships

[TheWraith]

9. Which is where you belong. nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. When you have cancer, you remove it

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. Obama's trying to cover up the secret government plot to invent AIDS.

:crazy: