From Paul Schwartzman and Nikita Stewart’s Sunday Post front-pager: “ If anyone could understand the plight of a second-class citizenry, it had to be a former community organizer on Chicago’s South Side. That Obama has not met those expectations is disappointing enough for those who view the District’s status as nothing less than the deprivation of a basic civil right. But their frustration is magnified by who Obama is and what they wanted from an African American president residing in the nation’s most prominent and predominant black city. ... ‘This is personal,’ said Donna Brazile, a Democratic political strategist. ‘I believe the president is sincere when he says that he believes in D.C. voting rights and home rule. But, as you know, D.C. residents like proof.’ Mark Plotkin, a WTOP political commentator who has made District statehood something of an obsession, said he sees little to distinguish Obama from his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush. ‘The greatest assault is indifference, and he has the hubris to take us for granted,’ Plotkin said of Obama. ‘He went to Cairo to talk about democracy. He won’t go to Brentwood or Deanwood. He has not made one utterance about D.C. to D.C. in D.C.’” Says the White House in a statement: “[T]he president is confident that the budget agreement ... is not just in the best interests of the American people, but also the best interests of District residents.” See also Politico, whose Joe Williams talks to Brazile and activist Anise Jenkins before going off on a tangent about Obama’s troubles with black voters outside the District.

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