True, but it does help that I am a battle-tested grizzled FR veteran.
As far as what truly motivates Obama, the disquiet you felt upon reading Dreams of My Father are best explored by reading Dinesh D'Sousa's essays.
Dinesh is perhaps the best analyst of Obama I have ever read.
...What then is Obama's dream? We don't have to speculate because the President tells us himself in his autobiography, Dreams from My Father. According to Obama, his dream is his father's dream. Notice that his title is not Dreams of My Father but rather Dreams from My Father. Obama isn't writing about his father's dreams; he is writing about the dreams he received from his father.
and then it continues:
So who was Barack Obama Sr.?
So that's where I stopped reading, because NOTHING so far has convinced me his father was the coal-black native from Keyna. It should read:
So who was Barry Little, aka Malcolm X and El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
Careful reading of these two links is my due requirement. One has to be very wary of what is within the now president. It might be said by his defenders, that all great men can rise above what once they had been.
My remark was after reading "Dreams From My Father" was - "They have got him!"