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No, I don't think so, you'll notice that later on I use George W. Bush as an example. Heck, let's get even more current: a story starring Barrack Obama is probably not going to be a account of the historical Obama, the person Obama. He appears on comic book covers to shake the superhero's hand, serving to symbolize the comic's relevance to current events, that the comic book publishers are modern and with it and so on. His actual polices as president are irrelevant to the book. Conversely, he also serves as a boogeyman of elitism, socialism, an illegal immigrant usurper, etc.

Take Steven Weismann's Barrack Hussein Obama, a surrealist account of Obama's life. Obama pretends to be a tree, he talks about the Jonas Brothers and Teen Vogue, he talks to demons and watches Joe Biden shoot lasers out of his eyes. He doesn't act at all like the historical figure Barrack Obama because that's not the point. Because even though he is a living figure whose history is more readily available to us, Obama's main use in fiction is as an icon to symbolize a whole spectrum of American hopes and neuroses and absurdities.