“This seems to me to have been sort of a reverse operation.”
You are right.
One has to conclude the job has been in progress for some years and the work appears to have been performed skillfully and professionally.
That suggests O is part of a world-class team, that he is only the chosen one and is not at the top of the team. There is wonderful food here for the paranoid and those with imagination.
Who bought his books and made them a best seller when he was a nobody? Why was his autobigraphy important before he’d even done anything?
Was his speech at the 2004 campaign such a groundbreaking event or was it the introduction of the myth of OBAMA1.0? He was campaiging for the White House from that moment on.