In his 1995 memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama claimed his father left Hawaii in 1963, when he “was only 2 years old.” Unchallenged by the major media, Obama continued to peddle this fiction throughout his presidency. It sustained what Obama biographer David Remnick called Obama’s “signature appeal: the use of the details of his own life as a reflection of a kind of multicultural ideal.” Like much of what Obama said, it was false.