{"id":3312,"date":"2010-05-18T13:34:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:34:04","slug":"the-wright-reverend-rants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3312","title":{"rendered":"The Wright Reverend Rants"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Barack Obama was campaigning for President, I wondered if the views of a candidate’s pastor were fair game for scrutiny as part of looking at the complete candidate.  A commenter told me, "Absolutely."<\/a>  Then candidate Obama distanced himself from that same pastor, and later cut ties with him.  (That same commenter then told me that, since the pastor wasn’t running, his views were a "distraction"<\/a>.  Convenient.)<\/p>\n

Today, that same pastor is whining about how he got thrown under the bus<\/a>, allegedly "literally".<\/p>\n

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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."<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

"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.<\/p>\n

"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!"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Hat tip: Bruce McQuain at Q&O<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I await the video showing that our President literally<\/em> threw anyone<\/em> under a bus before I believe the Reverend’s words in that regard.  In the meantime, his rantings serve to remind us that Obama will throw anyone, figuratively, under the bus, even after a close association of 20 years, if it will serve his purposes.  That’s the kind of guy we have as President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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