The hypocrisy of Anita Hill glares so brilliantly that she is apparently blind to it. The woman who attempted to deep-six Clarence Thomas now says that it's "high time" for diversity on the Supreme Court. When the nominee's name is Sonia Sotomayor, diversity is the flowery rationale. When the nominee's name is Clarence Thomas, he's lambasted as an affirmative action pick. The cynicism that inspires Barack Obama to select a second-rater because the ethnic immunity she brings to the hearings and the coalition-building she provides during electoral season, provokes his partisans, who see the world through a similarly distorted lense, to project their own machinations upon their adversaries.

What do you expect from the affirmative action President?