IHMO, obama is way beyond socialism. His actions to date seem to be right out of the playbook of a former German “community organizer” from back in the day. He’s more fascist than socialist.
What puzzles me is, to what ultimate end does Obama aspire. If he can be said to aspire. Maybe as you suggested it’s just his private ideas of what society all over the world should be like and he wants to be the nanny in chief of that? Like Bloomberg writ larger and with a (D) by his name? Even Joe Biden, the willing village idiot, could come up with better ideas than that. If this is fascism, he weaves a pretty weak fasces. It seems to follow a recipe for coming apart at the seams, not cohering.