New York – Ex-Obama Pastor: ‘Obama Threw Me Under The Bus’

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    New York – 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.”

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    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 Monday about Wright’s remarks. Several phone messages left by the AP for Wright, 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.

    Obama denounced Wright as “divisive and destructive” and later cut ties to the pastor altogether and left Wright’s church.

    The letter was sent Feb. 18 to Joseph Prischak, the president of Africa 6000 International in Erie, Pa. Wright subsequently agreed to write a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the group’s behalf to try to get access to millions of dollars.

    Wright’s original letter ranting against Obama’s treatment of him surfaced in an appeal filed by federal inmate Arthur Morrison, boxing great Muhammad Ali’s one-time manager, who was convicted of making phone threats.

    Charles Lofton, Wright’s executive assistant, told The Associated Press that he faxed a copy of the letter to Morrison’s attorney as requested. A copy of the faxed letter signed by Wright showed that it was sent from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago on March 31 to the fax number for Goodwin’s law office in Tulsa, Okla.

    Prischak, of Africa 6000 International, is a business partner of Morrison, who has been imprisoned for nearly 18 years after he was convicted of making phone threats between 1989 to 1992 to hospitals where an ex-girlfriend worked.

    Prischak told Wright in a Feb. 11 letter that he was seeking the clergyman’s help in reaching out to the U.S. Treasury Department. He said that Uday Hussein, the son of Saddam Hussein, had entrusted 87 million British pounds in 1990 to Morrison and Ali to buy pharmaceuticals, milk and food for the children of Iraq.

    Prischak said the money was never spent because Morrison was imprisoned. He sought Wright’s help in lobbying U.S. authorities to permit 25 million British pounds in interest from the money held in an overseas account to be allowed to be sent to faith-based groups for the children of Haiti.


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    David
    David
    13 years ago

    “he threw me under the bus literally”

    I wonder if the good Reverend knows what the word “literally” means? Anyhow, he seems like an awfully sensitive fellow– odd, for someone who spends so much time hurling invective at others.

    Milhouse
    Milhouse
    13 years ago

    And yet his name showed up on the White House visitor logs. He may be frozen out in public, but in private he’s still 0bama’s mentor.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    whatever. Obama hung with this guy for 22 years and now he suddenly does not know him…..

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    #2 are the presidents logs public information

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Election year!!!!! He is trying to help Obama

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    My heart bleeds for this inciteful hate-monger. Listen Rev. Wright: Obama publicly abandoned you, not because of the internet publicity of your hate-preaching, or your anti-semitic ranting. He did so because even his leftist, socialist, anti-American advisors felt that the extremes that you pout would disgust even the liberal left. Aren’t you smart enough to realize that your extremism was so beyond tolerance that even Obama had to sever ties? Stop crying. May you be abandoned by every other human alive. Under the bus? That would only be good if the bus is moving. Another few forms of destruction would suit you well.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Obamination may have thrown him under the bus, but sorry to say the bus did not run over this avowed Jew hater. To all you liberal Yidden who voted for this Obamination now you are coming to see the real agenda this man has for the USA and its not pretty.

    EQUAL Justice NOT Social Justice
    EQUAL Justice NOT Social Justice
    13 years ago

    You can’t sit in the pews of someone like jeremy wrong FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS & not be majorly influenced by what he says. Its either that or he agrees with Wrong 100%.

    There can be NO other way.

    Yiddle
    Yiddle
    13 years ago

    Alivai volt the prezident aim gevarfen inter a bus! Alivai!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    This is again obama politics, its a game he is trying to manipulate public opinion about him, cause the conservative movement constantly brings up the point of him being in rev wright’s church, and that he is just like him a self hated american and wants to change everything in this country, so he thinks the best way to completely make sure that no one will ever compare him again, look this won’t work mr president we know who you are we know what you think we almost know what your next move will be in every situation, so stop making us for fulls…

    Liepa
    Liepa
    13 years ago

    Pity, he certainly seems to have crawled away without a scratch from that bus.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    I think this is a strategy obama is using, to show that he cut off ties with his pastor