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 two-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. [...] "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!'
Obviously, Barack Obama did not literally throw the Reverend Jeremiah Wright under a bus. First, unless then-Senator Obama had access to a private bus depot, such an act would most likely have taken place in public and would therefore have drawn the attention of passersby (some of whom would surely have been Republicans or supporters of Hillary Clinton and therefore unwilling to hush the incident 
up) and maybe the attention of the police. Second, Rev. Wright is a rather solidly built man; it is unlikely that anyone as wiry as (and whose lungs are as polluted with tar as those of) Barack Obama could literally throw him anywhere.
What Rev. Wright means is that Obama figuratively threw him under the bus. And, as figuratively is the opposite of literally, Wright actually meant the opposite of what he wrote.
One wonders whether saying the opposite of what he means is a pattern with Rev. Wright, a kind of verbal tic as it were.
Maybe he has wanted God to bless America all along.
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