Marxist? That's as good a description as any

Yeah, I'll call Obama a Marxist.  Just because he's willing to take a more a slower path doesn't mean that the long term goal is any different.

Obama's eternal critique

Ace nails it. As I have been saying for some time, Obama is nothing but a two-bit community organizer. Community organizers are not leaders. They have a specific function in the world of Marxist ideology; agitation. They continually attack the existing order, fomenting division and dissent. In short; they exist to stir things up. While that's great if you are trying to bring about revolution (or as Obama calls it: fundamental transformation of America), it sucks for actual governance. I don't think that Obama really cares that he is damaging the very foundation of American economic power. That result actually advances his goals. He does not like the capitalist system so he attacks it. Thanks to his continually positioning himself as an outsider and support from a slavish mainstream media, he is never connected to the economic damage. He actually gets to use the damage he causes as a reason to do more to fundamentally transform (read: destroy) America's economy.

Ace stops short of calling Obama a Marxist, but I won't. Obama has been immersed in Marxism literally since birth. He doesn't have to have a sign on his chest that says "Marxist"; all his actions and words tell the story just as clearly. Marxism is the wellhead of an ideology that has taken many names and many forms, but is fundamentally the same thing Karl Marx described a century and a half ago; a Utopian myth that promises equality for all. That every attempt to achieve Marx's Utopia has failed badly and resulted in death, destruction, misery and the loss of freedom should tell any thinking person that it is unworkable and therefore dangerous to pursue. But Marxism is not really a philosophy or ideology; it is a religion. Yes, it is a secular religion that is based on the mindless belief in the promised miracle of an Earthly Utopia created by man. And that's where it fails. Man is fallible. Man is prone to committing evil acts. Marxism just ignores this inconvenient truth, and so it is destined to bring about destruction and terror every time it is practiced. The problem is that the true believers in the Marxist Utopia behave exactly as fanatical religious cultists. No matter how many times the Utopian myth crashes and burns there will always be new Marxists lining up to drink the Kool-Aid.