How Obama invented himself

If Barack Obama did not exist, it would have been necessary to invent him.

From the Telegraph:

David Remnick’s new biography of Barack Obama shines a light on a man who only saw his father for 10 days, and whose dazzling success may have hinged on his wife’s willingness to take risks.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates I wanted to start with a particular question for you in terms of identity. The book is obviously very much about Barack Obama’s identity. I wonder how much your own identity influenced how you approached the story, if at all.

David Remnick I got mine at the kitchen table. I got mine in the community that I grew up in. It came easy to me, to some degree. Look at how much Barack Obama had to figure out. I mean, he’s born who he is, he can look in the mirror; but it must have been extraordinarily confusing to have this father who was a ghost, a myth, a collection of stories that he barely knew, and by the way, were highly unreliable.

As Mark Steyn put it:

Nearly as confusing as electing a post-partisan centrist-redeemer president who turns out to be a ghost, a myth, a collection of stories that we barely knew, and by the way, were highly unreliable.

Instinctively, after listening to one of his speeches, it struck me that Barack Obama was a consummate phony.

I don't think I'm happy at all to see more evidence pile up that the President of the United States is no more real than the unicorns and pixie dust he has been peddling to the uninformed masses.

Our country has a cardboard cutout for a president. Do you think our enemies have noticed?