To the surprise of no one, President Obama is not blaming white people for his low approval ratings. This was entirely predictable. No black politician in the last fifty years has passed on the opportunity to play the race card. The only thing remarkable here is that it took this long for Obama to start doing it. His use of the race card in his re-election bid was rather subtle. Of course, he no longer has to worry about getting white votes now, so he can let his freak flag fly, as the smart set is fond of saying.

As Theodore Dalrymple points out, politicians are mediocre people with ambition. They succeed because they have a ruthlessness that allows them to do horrible things to the other people in their way. That’s what democracy selects for, which is why every democracy is overrun with sociopaths and lunatics. Obama was able to rise to the top because he was useful to his backers and he was willing to say whatever had to be said in order to rise to the top. Like all politicians, he has no soul.

For Obama, it manifests a bit differently. Blacks in American politics operate under some different rules than whites. Obama was not getting anywhere if he walked around with a nappy afro and a pick sticking out of it. He was never going to get far with the Choom-gang look either. In fairness, a white guy is not getting far if he looks like Kid Rock and a Latino cannot look like Aaron Hernandez. But, blacks are raised to believe they must act white in order to succeed, so they rage against this forced adaptation.

Because all politicians are are special form of sociopath, they see anything less than unconditional love as an unconditional assault. That means when they fall in the polls, they want to rage against the voters. For whites, this usually means blaming their advisers or the media. For black politicians it means blaming that white avatar that always have hovering over them. For lame duck Obama, fading into obscurity, he is free to vent his rage against the people who made it possible for him be in the White House.