Of course.
Basically, the embellishment is all there was to it.
And it was the only point I tried to make back then: that Obama had cooked his own biography for his benefit, and this should be kept in mind. And yeah, he's not alone among politicians in that department. Or a lot of other people.
But back then I watched liberals here spew their guts out like sea cucumbers trying to evade that simple fact. That comment you just made would have shortened some threads considerably.