ANDREW KLAVAN: A Fantasy Election, an Imaginary Man: Barack Obama has always been less real than dream—a media dream. “The mystery Obama — the hollow receptacle of out-sized fantasies left and right — is not a creation of his own making, political chameleon though he may well be. It emanates instead from a journalistic community that no longer in any way fulfills its designated function, that no longer even attempts the fair presentation of facts and current events aimed at helping the American electorate make up its mind according to its own lights.”