[robertpaulsen]

"Which presidential candidate do you think understands and fully respects the above paragraph."

First I don't know. Second, I'm not a single-issue voter, which makes your question irrelevant. Third, the President didn't write the DC law -- Congress did. Fourth, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide this issue, not the President.

Leading me to ask, why do you want to know?

[B4Ranch]

>First I don’t know. Second, I’m not a single-issue voter, which makes your question irrelevant.<

Your question is the same as mine, irrelevant.

[El Gato]

Third, the President didn't write the DC law -- Congress did.

Actually the DC council wrote it. That itself may be a Constitutional violation, since the Constitution states:

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;

However Congress gets a chance to review Acts of the Council before they become law..so maybe not.