Obama is an ideologue, not a slow learner. His agenda comes first and reality be damned.
I submit that the two are not mutually exclusive and that he can be both.
At the risk of hewing to Godwin’s Law, Hitler was an ideologue too but obviously waged an effective campaign (many of them, in fact) to put his agenda in place.
Obama is no doubt an ideologue but he is, as usual, attempting to modify a pocket watch with a pipe wrench and frustrated by the results.