BARACK OBAMA IS GUILTY as charged by the Clinton campaign–of using without attribution words uttered by Deval Patrick during his successful run last year for the governorship of Massachusetts. Patrick, a friend of Obama’s and one of his campaign chairmen, is hardly aggrieved about this, nor do Democratic primary voters seem to care. The “issue” is going nowhere. But since Patrick’s name has come up, it’s worth recalling that while serving in the Clinton administration as assistant attorney general for the civil rights division, he embraced a truly radical view of civil rights law–one that would permit employment discrimination in the name of “racial diversity.”