Personally, I think we give too much credit to Barack Obama when when we try to figure out what motivates him. A lot of us -- especially those who have grown up in urban areas and deal with people from all walks of life on a regular basis -- have run into a lot of people like him. He's the @sshole who runs for class president in high school on some kind of idiotic, idealistic platform that has nothing to do with education and does nothing to groom students to be adults. He's the jack@ss thirty-something who has never held a real job in his life, but somehow manages to find his way into the most expensive private schools and drive his BMW to private gatherings of like-minded idiots discussing their "revolution" against "the rich white man." He's either Barry Soetoro or Barack Hussein Obama, depending on where he is, what he's doing, and who's paying his bills. But when all is said and done and he finds his was into the White House, he's just an incompetent, stunted, underexposed misfit who isn't suited to do much more than get on television and tell us who he's got in his NCAA basketball tournament brackets.
I can't think of anyone who has done more to discredit the presidency of the United States than Barack Obama ... not because of what he's done, but because anyone who has even a modicum of intelligence and an ambition to improve his or her life just a little bit knows that it doesn't make sense to even waste time with @ssholes like that.
Think about his childhood.
Growing up in Hawaii and wealthy Indonesia is the poor Asian’s version of growing up with a silver spoon in your mouth. Living in Hawaii at the tail end of Vietnam, serving ice cream to make a few bucks in Hawaii, doesn’t make him innocuous to the military way of life, but it’s conducive of a narcissistic childhood.