The Rev Jeremiah Wright, US President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, has accused the President of "throwing him under the bus", in his bid for election
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Barack Obama threw me under a bus: Ex pastor
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The Rev Jeremiah Wright, US President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, has accused the President of "throwing him under the bus", in his bid for election.
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I'm radioactive
"I am radioactive, Sir. When Obama threw me under the bus, he threw me under the bus literally!" he wrote.
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"Any advice that I offer is going to be taken as something to be avoided. Please understand that!"
Cut ties
When he was still a senator, Obama cut ties with Wright after the pastor's more incendiary remarks became an Internet sensation in the spring of 2008.
At a National Press Club appearance in April 2008, he claimed the US 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 his church.
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