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After Sidwell Friends canceled school yesterday, President Barack Obama had some harsh words for D.C.

"Can I make a comment that is unrelated to the economy very quickly?" Obama asked at a morning economic briefing. "It has to do with Washington. My children's school was canceled today. Because of what—some ice? As my children pointed out, in Chicago, school is never canceled."

Obama went on to suggest that D.C. would do well to emulate "flinty Chicago toughness."

"I'm saying when it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don't seem to be able to handle things," he concluded.

That's right: Our new president considers capital-dwellers a bunch of pansy-asses who can't deal with a little dusting of snow.

Sad part is, he's probably right.

Video after the jump, courtesy of NBC Washington.

It will be Maret's first visit since the rivalry between the two schools really got funny, or ugly, depending on how seriously you take sophomoric taunts.

Maret was leading during a game at Sidwell last month when the home team's fans nailed the visitors with a group chant of "O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!"

Both schools had been finalists in the effort to land tuition fees for First Daughters Elect Malia and Sasha. In case anybody from Maret had forgotten, the chant reminded 'em that Sidwell won the competition for the Obama girls.

And, compounding the hurt, the home crowd's participation inspired the Sidwell boys to come back and beat Maret --- whose fans had retorted with a cheer of "Oatmeal Sucks!" to play on Sidwell's Quaker roots --- by a point.

City Desk's write-up of the cheer-war went viral, and students from both schools used our comments section to call each other some variant of "doo-doo head."

Soon after the digital brouhaha, a Sidwell student contacted me to say that his school's headmaster went on the PA system during classes earlier that day and warned students that City Paper's website was now being monitored.

Anybody from Sidwell who posted objectionable material here could be subject to punishments, including suspensions, for honor code violations.

Bottom line: Don't expect a repeat of the revelry at tomorrow night's rematch.

"Everybody here's looking around to see who's going to rat on who,"  the Sidwell student told me. "Nobody would have been cursing or calling Maret gay or anything if they knew our dean was reading this. We thought nobody would read this. We thought it was all funny. But, the 'O-ba-ma' chants are done. We can't do them again."

Apparently no such edicts were handed down at Maret: A student there told me that she thought her school's administrators were "secretly proud" of the "Oatmeal Sucks!" comeback.

You gonna let 'em do you like that, Sidwell?

On Saturday, Maret's basketball boys were leading Sidwell Friends on the road when the home crowd taunted the visitors with a chant ripped from the headlines:

"The Sidwell kids started yelling 'O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!' at us," a Maret parent who attended the game tells me.

The First Family Elect's first major post-election decision, of course, dealt with where to send daughters Malia and Sasha to school. Most reports had Maret and Sidwell as the finalists in the Obama sweepstakes.

After tours of both, Sidwell landed the kids for next year. So while Malia and Sasha aren't even enrolled there yet, they're already cheerleaders. And what the Sidwell fans were telling Maret with their "O-ba-ma!" chant was: "Even if you whup us at hoops, we still beat you in a bigger game!"

The Maret parent says Maret's administrators looked confused, and Sidwell's bemused, as "O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!" rained down from the grandstand.

Just words? Hardly.

"On the Maret side, that was insulting and incendiary," says the Maret parent, who requested anonymity. "How crass!"

Maret's side eventually responded by yelling "Oatmeal sucks!" -- a play on Sidwell's nickname, the Quakers.

To add insult to insult: Perhaps inspired by the clever nastiness of the home fans, Sidwell came back and beat Maret by a point, 47-46.

A call to Sidwell's athletic director to get a comment on the fans' alleged un-Friendly chant hasn't yet been returned. But we'll follow this story and do everything journalistically possible to build the Sidwell/Maret rivalry into something that can last two terms.

The big news for now: There's a Sidwell/Maret rematch tomorrow night at Maret.

Come game time, the Maret kids will have had almost a week to come up with something better, or at least something bitterer, than "Oatmeal Sucks!"

The whole world is watching!