Several things:
1. This very topic: that he has planned to introduce government dependence on a widespread scale (Obamacare, debt spending, unlimited unemployment extensions). The notion of 'creating jobs' was never going to happen, and was never the goal.
2. His training - the people he's sat at the feet of while growing up. You could (certainly) argue that his are the actions of a puppet, perhaps, but he's implementing their tactics.
3. None of his Presidential actions are accidents - they are plans being enacted to specifically reward his supporters and perpetuate the Democrat party (Porkulus, other 'stimulus', class warefare, F&F?)
Now yeah, TOTUS is hardly a "Presidential-quality Communicator" -- he can't make real speeches, he rambles on presser answers because he's trying not to give any direct answers to questions -- but that doesn't mean there isn't an agenda or that he's marching to it.
I contrast Obama with Jimmy Carter because Carter had all the appearances of simply being overwhelmed by the job and not having a clue how to get out of it. Obama, however, is a true believer and believes his ways are right and true.
The error, however, is that I believe Obama over-reached and under-estimated the backlash. Having a GOP/Tea Party Congress has slowed his train, and he's still trying to figure how to cope with this.
But if he wasn’t an idiot, he would know that Americans (majority) would never go along with his schemes. I see him as a puppet. I don’t think he is very smart at all.