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

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

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."

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.

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.

LOL...what ?
did that Pastor think he was automatically qualified to help run the country just because
he could "see Obama's house from the Church windows ? "

>"No one in the Obama administration will respond to me, listen to me, talk to me or read anything that I write to them.<


Thats politics Rev.

BMG wrote:

>"No one in the Obama administration will respond to me, listen to me, talk to me or read anything that I write to them.<


Thats politics Rev.

they don't even listen to us and we spend a lot of time figuring everything out for them
right here on these important forums

Madison wrote:

BMG wrote:

>"No one in the Obama administration will respond to me, listen to me, talk to me or read anything that I write to them.<


Thats politics Rev.

they don't even listen to us and we spend a lot of time figuring everything out for them
right here on these important forums

lmao, see, now if they only registered here the world could be fixed

I'm suprised that he's suprised.

Joebert wrote:

I'm suprised that he's suprised.

i think he thought he was going to ride obamas coat tails to revolution

The guys a nut but I'm glad he came out so we can see how Obama was raised.

Joebert wrote:

The guys a nut but I'm glad he came out so we can see how Obama was raised.

read obama's book, he was raised a muslim, schooled as a community aggitator

KK wrote:

Joebert wrote:

The guys a nut but I'm glad he came out so we can see how Obama was raised.

read obama's book, he was raised a muslim, schooled as a community aggitator

I know but why couldn't anyone see that. It;s not like it's a surprise.

Joebert wrote:

The guys a nut but I'm glad he came out so we can see how Obama was raised.

The scary part is that it didnt seem to matter.

Joebert wrote:

KK wrote:

Joebert wrote:

The guys a nut but I'm glad he came out so we can see how Obama was raised.

read obama's book, he was raised a muslim, schooled as a community aggitator

I know but why couldn't anyone see that. It;s not like it's a surprise.

people don't look deep enough, the believe it when they hear what they want to hear

did ya see Miss USA 2010 ? I dont' have the temperament for watching that crazy stuff

but headlines say she's mostly Arab... has porn pics coming out of the woodwork now
and fell on stage during the pageant....LOL


uhmmm... it's past time to give up that silly nonsense

c/thru wrote:

did ya see Miss USA 2010 ? I dont' have the temperament for watching that crazy stuff

but headlines say she's mostly Arab... has porn pics coming out of the woodwork now
and fell on stage during the pageant....LOL


uhmmm... it's past time to give up that silly nonsense

I havent watched any kind of pageant for years but I figure what the hell.......if people are into it thats their gig, whatever.

c/thru wrote:

did ya see Miss USA 2010 ? I dont' have the temperament for watching that crazy stuff

but headlines say she's mostly Arab... has porn pics coming out of the woodwork now
and fell on stage during the pageant....LOL


uhmmm... it's past time to give up that silly nonsense

yea, but she said she made eye contact with donald trump and knew at that monent she had won

BOING!

BMG wrote:

c/thru wrote:

did ya see Miss USA 2010 ? I dont' have the temperament for watching that crazy stuff

but headlines say she's mostly Arab... has porn pics coming out of the woodwork now
and fell on stage during the pageant....LOL


uhmmm... it's past time to give up that silly nonsense

I havent watched any kind of pageant for years but I figure what the hell.......if people are into it thats their gig, whatever.

i haven't watched it since miss congeniality exposed it for what it is

KK wrote:

BMG wrote:

c/thru wrote:

did ya see Miss USA 2010 ? I dont' have the temperament for watching that crazy stuff

but headlines say she's mostly Arab... has porn pics coming out of the woodwork now
and fell on stage during the pageant....LOL


uhmmm... it's past time to give up that silly nonsense

I havent watched any kind of pageant for years but I figure what the hell.......if people are into it thats their gig, whatever.

i haven't watched it since miss congeniality exposed it for what it is

I haven't watched it for 20 years but I may need to see those pictures

Joebert wrote:

KK wrote:

BMG wrote:

c/thru wrote:

did ya see Miss USA 2010 ? I dont' have the temperament for watching that crazy stuff

but headlines say she's mostly Arab... has porn pics coming out of the woodwork now
and fell on stage during the pageant....LOL


uhmmm... it's past time to give up that silly nonsense

I havent watched any kind of pageant for years but I figure what the hell.......if people are into it thats their gig, whatever.

i haven't watched it since miss congeniality exposed it for what it is

I haven't watched it for 20 years but I may need to see those pictures

i'll look, just to validate if she really deserves this crown

KK wrote:

Joebert wrote:

KK wrote:

BMG wrote:

c/thru wrote:

did ya see Miss USA 2010 ? I dont' have the temperament for watching that crazy stuff

but headlines say she's mostly Arab... has porn pics coming out of the woodwork now
and fell on stage during the pageant....LOL


uhmmm... it's past time to give up that silly nonsense

I havent watched any kind of pageant for years but I figure what the hell.......if people are into it thats their gig, whatever.

i haven't watched it since miss congeniality exposed it for what it is

I haven't watched it for 20 years but I may need to see those pictures

i'll look, just to validate if she really deserves this crown

I remember vanessa Williams had some picture come out. Can't show them here though.

I remember vanessa Williams had some picture come out. Can't show them here though.[/quote]

weren't they all black and whites

KK wrote:

I remember vanessa Williams had some picture come out. Can't show them here though.

weren't they all black and whites[/quote]

Yes she was black and the other one was white

Joebert wrote:

KK wrote:

I remember vanessa Williams had some picture come out. Can't show them here though.

weren't they all black and whites

Yes she was black and the other one was white [/quote]she's actually a really good looking woman

That's why she won. She's an excellent singer too.

Joebert wrote:

That's why she won. She's an excellent singer too.

is she?