Barry Soetoro has demonstrated that he is a shenanigans man:
1)He usually gets it wrong on the first attempt and then starts modifying his positions. Sometimes you have to take the first position most seriously, as it may be based on some sort of core belief, before that position gets doctored and manipulated by advisers and pollsters.
2) He is willing to say and do whatever it takes to achieve some electoral objective, including dumping core principles, such as public financing of elections, and such as refusing to help reform the corrupt Cook County Chicago political machine he supports and is a part of.
3) He is so loosely anchored to core principles that he is a perpetual motion machine, constantly flip flopping, sidestepping, somersaulting and back-pedaling as the latest crisis or electoral problem demands.
So the best way to understand him is to look at his core beliefs and record to date,undistorted by the electoral gyrations of the moment.
4) He is a far-left liberal, with radical and extremist ideas. He has a heavy slant toward redistribution and socialism.
5) He is weak on national security and national defense. He tends to run with anti-Americans, racists and bigots and favors a European world-view (bowing to international organizations and favoring talking and appeasing rather than strength and victory).