?The president should have said something in support of Fenty? according to NPR commentator Juan Williams, who referred to Barack Obama's silence on Washington, D.C.'s mayoral Democratic Party primary race. D.C. Councilman Jim Graham believes that the president, had he given Adrian Fenty his public backing, ?could have won the election for Adrian.? And the Wall Street Journal's John Fund writes:
Mr. Obama talks a good game on education reform, telling an audience recently that ?the status quo in education is unacceptable.? But when he had a chance to make a difference and ensure the continuance of education reform in the nation's capital, he did the functional equivalent of what he did over 140 times while serving in the Illinois legislature: identify himself as only being ?present.?
UPDATE:?More, from the Daily Caller.
?Liam Julian