He knows exactly what his handlers/money men want him to deliver.
Obama was hard left long before he thought of running for office. I personally think he was groomed by the left when he was in college-hence Columbia and Harvard Law.
I don't think this is as much about special interest or 'handlers' as it is about messianic Marxism. He's had a lifetime of evangelical indoctrination and now runs from place to place tormented by the Furies in an attempt to legitimize his life's corruption. But unlike Orestes, Athena will NOT be there to argue on his behalf.