Jeremiah Wright: 'Obama Threw Me Under the Bus'

He's back.

Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor and spiritual mentor for 20 years, is still haunting him.

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 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.

...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.

Here's a copy of Wright's letter, dated February 18, 2010.



Wright is ticked off that he's not receiving special attention, or any attention, from the White House. Obama is probably more ticked off than Wright. How many times does one have to throw one's former pastor under the bus before one is rid of him?

It's possible that Wright's irritation is just a ruse. Maybe the White House wants this story out there so the lib media will have reason to recall Obama's speech on race and drool anew.