Stunning: Obama revises 'fable' that got him elected

In his new memoir, "A Promised Land," Barack Obama attempts to do something the reviewers have chosen not to notice, namely to surgically excise his father from his fabled and apparently fabricated life story.

In brief, Obama has shored up his American roots by obliterating his international ones. This move took some thought. Obama wrote his first memoir, "Dreams from My Father," about his Homeric quest for identity, a Telemachus searching for his own Odysseus, the Kenyan Barack Obama.

Stunningly, in "A Promised Land," the Kenyan is an afterthought.

"Since I didn't know my father," writes Obama casually, "he didn't have much input."

This lack of "input" will come as news to popular conservative author Dinesh D'Souza. In his bestseller, "The Roots of Obama's Rage," D'Souza argued that that the senior Barack Obama was "first and foremost" an anti-colonialist and that his son was too. Both assertions are arguably true.

Essential to D'Souza's thesis was that Obama inherited the philosophy and its attendant rage from the father with whom he shared a home until the age of 2. After his father's departure, his mother preserved and passed along the Kenyan's anti-colonialism.

Although I have dissented in the past from D'Souza's thesis, Obama left enough clues in "Dreams" and elsewhere to make that thesis viable.

On any number of occasions, including in the pages of "Dreams," Obama claimed his father left Hawaii in 1963, "when I was only two years old."

In a talk to America's schoolchildren in September 2009, Obama repeated the canard. "I get it," he told his coerced audience. "I know what that's like. My father left my family when I was 2 years old, and I was raised by a single mother."

"A Promised Land" all but erases the Kenyan from Obama's history. Obama says he met his presumed father only once when, at age 10, the older Obama visited Honolulu. "That was the first and last I saw of him," writes Obama.

The first? This is a stunning admission, one that mainstream reviewers chose not to notice. Obama began his 2004 convention speech talking about a man he now admits to having met only once.

After thanking everyone, Obama dedicated the next three paragraphs to the father who allegedly helped him become the man he became. Although he begrudged his mother only one paragraph in the speech, he said that together, as a couple, Barack Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham made Obama's ascendancy possible.

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation," said Obama. "They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential."

Obama built his candidacy on this tale. According to friendly biographer David Remnick, Obama's "signature appeal" was just this: "the use of the details of his own life as a reflection of a kind of multicultural ideal."

And now in "A Promised Land," Obama quietly concedes it was all a fairy tale. There was no improbable love, no faith in the future of America, no father, no family.

The mystery surrounding Obama's birth might best be left behind were it not for his obsession with the people who question it During the 2008 primary campaign, Bill Clinton was accused of racism for using the term "fairy tale" in regards to Barack Obama, an accusation used strategically to crush Hillary in the South Carolina primary.

Of course, no one has caught more flack for questioning Obama's origins than President Donald Trump. Nearly 10 years after he first challenged Obama's nativity story, Trump still haunts Obama's imagination the way Kong did the natives of Shull Island.

Obama argues that Trump jeopardized not only his reputation, but also the very safety of his family by questioning his birth certificate. "Trump didn't care about the consequences of spreading conspiracy theories that he almost certainly knew to be false, so long as it achieved his aims," Obama insists.

Yet, the fact remains that it was Obama and his acolytes who were spreading the conspiracy theories about Obama's origins. Worse, they imputed racism to anyone who questioned them, even the Clintons.

Not until 2017, with the publication of David Garrow's "Rising Star," did anyone on the left acknowledge what most informed people on the right had known since 2009 and as early as 2008: that Obama's "signature appeal" was a complete fraud.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Garrow writes, "In truth, as one scholar would acutely put it, Barack Hussein Obama was only 'a sperm donor in his son's life.'"

As some suspect, Barack Hussein Obama may not even have been that.

For the whole story read Jack Cashill's new book, "Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency." See also Cashill.com