Completely true, and there is a name for this: charlatanie – there is so much, sensational Al. Dumas stuff in Obama’s career, but we haven’t gotten so far a comprehensive debunking of this operetta stuff (The Prince Beggar, The Beggar Prince, The False Czar, you name them).
Here I’d like though to add a few details to Moran’s analysis, details which show how calculated and calibrated all Obama’s efforts have for long been, everything done to position himself in the best angle for the enthralled media. Since I cannot spend my time reading his books (Oprah’s picks guarantee crappy stuff, anyway) the following are some scoops from LA Times/NY Times which describe Obama’s fraudulence:
A) his use of drugs during the college years = Oh, my god, this young man has faced so many difficulties, this is so inspiring! (Rebuttal: not much drugs use, the research shows, his school mates describe him as motivated and precise; Obama’s exaggerated description in his memoir was made exactly to elicit sympathy, compassion & admiration; NY Times)
B) his lavishly mentioning his indebtedness to the Kennedy clan, i.e., Ted Kennedy footing the bill for bringing/schooling Obama senior from Kenya to USA = oh, my god, this is so beautiful, so inspiring, so much generosity and how beautifully it worked with this excellent young man! (Rebuttal: not really, the research has shown that, while the Kennedy estate was contacted at the time for financing the education of some Kenyan students in US, they passed – only at a later time, when Obama junior was already born and Obama senior was already back in Kenya, the Kennedy-s made some contributions to the fund in question, money which anyway never touched Obama junior’s existence; LA Times).
C) his years in an “exclusivist” prep school in Hawaii = “exclusivist prep school”, poor Barrack among all those white rich kids who rejected him! (Rebuttal: not really. Hawaii is not Trondheim where you can expected that one half of the class to be pure white Johanssen and the other one pure white Arnulfsen – Hawaii is the most interracially mixed state in the Union and I’m pretty sure that Barrack wasn’t a sad, lonely figure among two tons of white kids – I’d say that a white kid is the rara avis in a Hawaian school.
I am certain that Obama’s memoirs and official bio are full of elements carefully arranged to elicit sympathy and admiration, and so far it really worked – we’re going Gothic & Fussli, expect evil twins, a testament written by Jefferson, some prophets, visions, murderers with poisoned daggers lurking behind curtains, monks with secret messages, imolations, hollowed books, mad philosophers, talking penguins, etc.
Leaving the funny part aside, this is a dangerous situation – we go through difficult times and the country’s helm is within the reach of an ambitious, lucky and incompetent adventurer.

I paid a visit to your blog and was impressed. You make some very good points. While I agree with probably all your positions (I read it late last night), I might add some of my own thoughts as a deeply “faith-led” Christian.

I don’t think we can afford, at any time in our lives – but especially in these somewhat more perilous times – to be a people without faith. If we have established a knowledge of – and a trusting relationship with – our Creator, we will be able to withstand whatever challenges we might face in life.

This is the evil of Obama’s solution: he makes government our god. He cheats man of a reliance on himself and his walk with his Creator. And government will not always be there. But God will.

Rather than look to the “world” in times of need, if man turns instead to the One who has “known us before we were born” and “has counted every hair on our head”, we might find that the very horrible situation we’re in will, in fact, be our greatest blessing. How? Because in relying on Him, we have allowed Him to work in our lives as never before. Our faith in – and love for – Him are only increased.

There is another evil that Obama’s “church” and his own intention to redistribute wealth cause. They encourage covetousness and envy. And so long as those are swirling within one’s heart, worldly solutions are only temporary. There will still be a void; a need not yet filled.

The times we live in are perilous. And Obama is clueless. It is the couragous, self-reliant, faith-filled middle American who has seen our nation through some very tough times in the past. God bless and keep him. We’re going to need him in the months and years ahead.

This guy is both”angry white and black ” all rolled into one.

He is a joke as I know him since the primaries started.Are you people really seriously in getting this joker into your whitehouse ? How about the next four years for the US and the world ??

One sure way to bring hailstorms to yourself is to have him in your team !!

We have in Obama an upper-class half-black man, trying desperately to convince the ghetto culture that he’s black like them and, at the same time, trying to convice the white majority that race is not an issue for him. He’s trying to walk down both sides of the street in opposite directions. I wonder how it will turn out.

Ironic, because inconvenient truths rile the masses.

How much mileage did the Obama campaign get out of their indignation over the “truthiness” of Geraldine Ferraro’s comments?

They launched a series of over-the-top responses within moments of the Drudge Report releasing a well-circulated of Obama in a turban, just because Drudge claimed it came from a Clinton worker.

Those scathing tirades were carried around the world, when the chances are better than not that it was planted by the Obama campaign, in order to ridicule Clinton.

The list is long, but the point is that the things that wind up biting you in the butt are probably not the things for which you deserve the bite.

With the help of the media, Obama has gotten a free pass on a lot of things that should have blown up in his face.

Maybe he is getting more abuse over this item than he deserves, but what goes around comes around.

He has been the prime beneficiary of playing the thin-skinned victim. It’s called “Karma.”