Obama sides with teachers union against kids in D.C.

When you are America's first mixed-race president, it has to be especially galling to flip on the news in America's majority-minority capital city and find commercials accusing you of failing to help the city's black children escape from substandard schools.

That's not the change people voted for.

But when President Obama tunes into Fox News, CNN, MSNBC or News Channel 8, the president hears his own words thrown in his face. "We're losing several generations of kids, and something has to be done," Mr. Obama says in the commercials.

The something that the president has done is cut off a scholarship program helping hundreds of students from the city's failing schools go to better private schools - a choice Washington's powerful and well-off liberal politicians often make for their own kids.