That's how the Washington Post's Valerie Strauss, on the paper's Answer Sheet blog, described the D.C. premiere of Waiting for Superman. ?D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee,? Strauss wrote, ?used the occasion of the D.C. premiere of the ?Waiting for Superman' documentary?which portrays her as the educational Joan of Arc?to blast D.C. voters yet again for daring to reject her style of school reform.? According to Strauss, Rhee?proclaimed the following:
Let me not mince words, and say that yesterday's election results were devastating?devastating. Not for me, because I'll be fine. And not even for Fenty, because he'll be fine, too. It was devastating for the children of Washington, D.C.
?This,? Strauss writes, ?was the equivalent of saying that there is no use for anybody to hope that she and presumptive mayor Vincent Gray can come to some compromise to keep her here. The only question is when she'll leave.? True.
?Liam Julian