[editor-surveyor]

"Is this the same mental illness that ‘Lil Dick Gephardt had - making up fictional friends?"

When I make up fictional friends, I make sure they are the kind that have really great parties that they invite me to!

[cricket]

If Obama cannot put the words in his Grandmother's mouth; his dog. . .or that of a Republican; he then must make up the source/friend.

A necessary SOP for the 'people of the lie' and it bothers them not a wit to be so practiced.