In this column Thomas Sowell takes a look at the way Obama and his defenders continually play the race card in efforts to shield themselves from rational criticism.

Here’s my favorite line. Referring to the fact that in 2008 many voters were taken in by Obama’s soothing rhetoric and supported him: “Still, it was an honest mistake of the kind that decent people have often made when dealing with people whose agendas are not constrained by decency, but only by what they think they can get away with.”

That pretty well sums up the whole Obama presidency.