The Problem with Barack Obama

I was reading in a recent article (probably by a pundit) that Barack Obama has a stepbrother who he is, more or less, off speaking terms with. I suppose that wouldn't matter, but for the reason. From the passages in Barack Obama's memoir that I read, it appears that Senator Obama and his stepbrother decided not to write to one another because his brother did not have such kind "dreams of his father." Of course, Barack Obama hardly knew his father, so what is disturbing is that an abstraction of Sen. Obama's dreams could matter more to him than an actual person. Why we would want a leader like that I can't imagine.