Last Friday in Chicago, the Obama Presidential Center opened with Bruce Springsteen, Steven Spielberg, and other celebrities joining former presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden, along with 2024 presidential loser Kamala Harris. The Center aims to celebrate “the remarkable story of President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, America’s first Black president and First Lady.” What it truly signifies was best outlined by two prominent liberals who did notattend the gala event.

In an August 2023 article at Tablet magazine, editor David Samuels interviewed Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, David Garrow. In this massive tome, published in May, 2017, Garrow revealed:

Dreams from My Father was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction. It featured many true-to-life figures and a bevy of accurately described events that indeed had occurred, but it employed the techniques and literary license of a novel, and its most important composite character was the narrator himself.

The outing of his definitive work as fiction did not please America’s first black president.  “For me to conclude that Dreams from My Father was historical fiction—oh God, did that infuriate him,” Garrow told Samuels. For Obama, “everything has to be a success, everything has to be a victory” but “it does go back to Dreams being a work of fiction.” Although Samuels had been a longtime Obama admirer, he took it to another level in this interview which happened in the lead up to the last year of Biden’s presidency.

“There was something about this fictional character that he created actually becoming president that helped precipitate the disaster that we are living through now,” Samuels told Garrow (emphasis added).  “The easy explanation, of course, is that Joe Biden is not running that part of his administration. Obama is. He doesn’t even have to pick up the phone because all of his people are already inside the White House. They hold the Iran file. Tony Blinken doesn’t.”

Samuels rattled off names: Rob Malley, Brett McGurk, Dan Shapiro in Israel, Lisa Monaco in Justice and Susan Rice running domestic policy. “It’s turtles all the way down,” Samuels said. “There are obviously large parts of White House policymaking that belong to Barack Obama because they’re staffed by his people, who worked for him and no doubt report back to him.”

For Samuels, it was “a very odd and kind of spooky arrangement. Spooky, because it is happening outside the constitutional framework of the U.S. government, and yet somehow it’s been placed off the list of permitted subjects to report on.” Samuels had

heard from more than one source that there are regular meetings at Obama’s house in Kalorama involving top figures in the current White House, with Secret Service and cars outside. I don’t write about it because it’s not my lane. There are over a thousand reporters in Washington, and yet there are zero stakeouts of Obama’s mansion, if only to tell us who is coming and going. But he clearly has his oar in.

As Samuels had come to understand,

a new milieu had been created consisting of party operatives, the people in the FBI and the CIA who are carrying out White House policy, and the press. It is all one world now. And that’s something people still seem loathe to admit, even to themselves, in part because it puts them in a state of dissonance with this new kind of controlled consensus that the press maintains, which is obviously garbage. But if you question it, you’re some kind of nut.

The Tablet sage was on to it at last. Barack Obama is a fictitious character, and in 2023, he was still running the country under the hapless Joe Biden and was responsible for the disaster the nation was living through at the time. From the hideously ugly Obama Presidential Center, the Obama is doubtless hoping for Bidens all the way down—Democratic presidents that he can control moving forward. This is more like the “guided democracy” of Indonesia, where young Barry Soetoro was raised, than anything in the American tradition.

As Garrow noted in Rising Star, the former president, born in Hawaii in 1961, was raised in Indonesia as the stepson of Lolo Soetoro, the Indonesian student his mother Ann Dunham married in 1965. On the other hand, the Kenyan Barack Obama, Sr., in all his writing and documents from 1958 to 1964, mentions nothing about an American wife and son. So it seems POTUS44, in preparing his book on his father, never viewed the archive at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York where Sr.’s writings are housed.

For the fictional character who became president, America was smothered in oppression and racism until he arrived on the scene.  He promptly  canceled missile defense for U.S. allies Poland and the Czech Republic. Fidel Castro was regarded by him as a “singular figure” with “enormous impact,” and the white Stalinist dictator never did anything Obama chose publicly to condemn. The Fort Hood mass murder by “soldier of Allah” Nidal Hasan was only considered “workplace violence,” not terrorism or even gun violence. And so on.

The “Affordable Care Act,” which David Garrow regarded as “in large part, a fraud,” was part of Obama’s fundamental transformation of the USA into a nation where the people get only what the government wants them to have. If the people therefore regard the Obama as the true divider-in-chief it would be hard to blame them.

As the Obama Presidential Center opens, in the run-up to the nation’s 250^th birthday, prominent Democrats are panting for socialism, which has proved itself a failure. The “remarkable story” of the first fictional character president is still in progress, and that could spell disaster for the people in 2028 and beyond. So as Trump says, we’ll have to see what happens.