D.C. voting rights proponents’ faith in Obama sinks

[onehandle]

Source: Washington Post

President Obama’s arrival in the White House two years ago inspired unabashed optimism among civic leaders in the District, who had long yearned for an ally to trumpet their quest for statehood and voting rights in Congress.

As the country’s first black president, Obama’s words and biography suggested an innate appreciation for political disenfranchisement. 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.

“The expectations were very high that, since he had made human rights an important part of his platform, he would speak out for D.C.,” said Philip Pannell, a former member of the D.C. Democratic State Committee and longtime advocate for statehood. “It seems that President Obama’s heart and his conscience are missing in action.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2011/04/15/AFb0T5qD_story.html

[msongs]

1. Open mic Obama came....and went. bye bye lol nt

[Doctor_J]

2. He's turned into a caartoonish appeaser, fighting more

for the rights of criminals and hyper-rich corporations than for citizens. He has no heart and conscience.

[Pirate Smile]

5. That's as divorced from reality as the crap Donald Trump spouts.

[sendero]

7. No..

... it is exactly correct.

[Pirate Smile]

10. Sure, and Bill Ayers wrote Obama's first book.

[primavera]

3. They'll have to take a number

The line of people disappointed in Obambi's milquetoast performance already stretches around the block.

[No Elephants]

4. Ah, that "hope" thing again.

[sendero]

8. They mean...

.. hopium.

[dameocrat67]

6. Conservadems want the blacks to move back to the south

Where their liberalism can be smothered by right wing white people. DC is gentrifying with white military contractors and Wall-street lobbyists and their children, who do not need voting rights since the maintain residencies in other states and they do not need public schools since most are filthy rich.

[Frances]

9. DC will get voting rights on the same day that it is definite

that the majority of its residents are white Republicans.

[dameocrat67]

12. exactly

poor blacks are sitting on some valuable real estate!

[katnapped]

11. Obvious they never loved him....

And secretly want Sarah Palin (or Donald Trump) in the White House.

Isn't that correct?

:sarcasm:

[Doctor_J]

13. Hey, what's special about you?

I posted the exact same sentiment when Cornell West came out against the prez's appeasement a week ago. That post was yanked before I finished my morning constitutional.

SO, before it's gone,

Amen!