I’m sorry to break the news to you Antone, but Obama was just as astro turf as any candidate we have ever seen. How indeed does an “obscure state senator become president of the US”. Answer: The best consultants in the business creating focus group slogans, telling each constituent group exactly what they wanted to hear, triangulating all ways from DNP enough to make even a Clinton’s head spin. Because if you were correct, we Dems wouldn’t have lost the House in 2010, and then the Senate. But dear Antone, it was all part of the plan. So sad that even 8 years after the fact you don’t know from shinola.