Quoted: Jeremiah Wright on why Obama won't return his phone calls

My bad, if you already caught this the other day. I've been out of the office a lot this week.

From a story in the Hampton Roads, VA Daily Press:

"Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me," Wright said. "I told my baby daughter that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. ...

"They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. ... I said from the beginning: He's a politician; I'm a pastor. He's got to do what politicians do."

Wright also said Obama should have sent a U.S. delegation to the World Conference on Racism held recently in Geneva, Switzerland, but that the president did not for fear of offending Jews and Israel. He specifically cited the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an influential pro-Israel lobbying group.

"Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing (by) the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don't want Barack talking like that because that's anti-Israel," Wright said.

Wright later clarified his statement, saying he wasn't talking about all Jews, just Zionists.

Checkit: Rev. Jeremiah Wright says "Jews" are keeping him from President Obama [Daily Press]

And after the jump is Keith Olbermann declaring Jeremiah Wright the worst person in the world.