‘Barack threw me under bus, literally’

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The Reverend 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, Reverend 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,” Reverend 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 Reverend Wright’s remarks. Several phone messages left by the AP for Reverend Wright at the Trinity United Church of Christ, where he is listed as a pastor emeritus, were not returned. Reverend Wright’s spokeswoman, his daughter Jeri Wright, did not immediately comment on the substance of the letter.
Then-Senator Obama cut ties with Reverend Wright when his more incendiary remarks became an Internet sensation in the spring of 2008.