He’s a Marxist pure and simple.
Anyone who chooses to believe otherwise has a severe case of “Emperor’s New Clothes” Syndrome.
Obama is the most rigid ideologue to head a country since Mao starved his country with the "Cultural Revolution" and Pol Pot emulated him in Cambodia, even Lenin was pragmatic when necessary.
The only thing holding him back is the need to be re elected so he can consolidate implement the ground work he has laid in his first term to “his fundamentally change the United States”.
He has been telling the truth about his intentions all along, it's just that most don't grasp his meaning of “fundamentally change” When Obama thinks of change, he thinks of the Cultural Revolution and his administration has been putting in place most of the pieces to impose his high tech version of the Cultural Revolution on this country.