The Vanity Fair writeup from 2007 has been cleaned from the archives. - the VF archives.
The subject matter of their reportage suggests that BHO was a test case (in part) to the idea of how much would the Americans resist a foreign national in the Oval Office.
Hah.....”Foreign national” as president....he spent an inordinate amt of time denying it.
His PR team said AFTER he got in....they never answered questions from the preess...they only old them what THEY wanted the press (and voters) to know.