The Legend of Barack Hussein Obama as Promoted with Taxpayer Dollars

Husna Haq of the Christian Science Monitor reported on October 27, 2011 that the United States State Department purchased $70,000 worth of Barack Obama books, mostly his autobiography, Dreams From My Father.  When questioned about the appropriateness of the action, according to Haq:

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told CNN it is "longstanding practice" to allow embassies to buy books, "to put them out in libraries ... give them to contacts, which they think will help deepen understanding of the U.S. political system, of U.S. political figures and leaders of U.S. history, U.S. culture."

Fox News pointed out, however, that the State Department did not disseminate either George W. Bush’s book or Bill Clinton’s.

Neither Haq nor Fox mentioned what I regard as the essential issue, however: the relevance of Dreams From My Father to anything remotely related to the State Department.  One could argue that John F. Kennedy’s best seller Profiles in Courage was the kind of book that warranted distribution by the State.  Profiles celebrated others—eight U.S. Senators who took unpopular positions of conscience in the interest of our country.  Dreams, on the other hand, amounted to a duplicitous, manipulative self-agrandizing fantasy—Barack Obama as a legend in his own mind. 

Obama, the narcissist, spent his time obsessing and writing about his favorite subject—himself.  And the State Department reinforced his self-absorption by helping to spread his self-serving identity propaganda as far and wide as possible.  Equally outrageous, Barack Obama will make a few bucks from the royalties that follow from the State’s purchases.

Nowhere could I find any information identifying the governmental official who made the decision to buy and disseminate the book.  I’m sure we never will discover who did so.  But we reasonably can speculate about that person. 

If it was not Barack or Michelle who chose use taxpayer money to buy and disseminate the Obamafuscation book, it clearly was someone enamored by the Emperor’s New Clothes, a person for whom fantasy of personal identity substitutes for hard-core reality, a person who REALLY wants to believe.  The person who made the purchase is the kind of individual who has made “President” Barack Hussein Obama possible, someone so intent on creating an identity-assuaging myth that he/she will do anything to promulgate it.   A little president-pandering probably played a part as well.