he's interested in being everything to everyone to the extent that it furthers his career.

I don't think that really applies to the US president - he has nowhere further to go in his career.

ormondotvos:

Frankly, I do subscribe to the "Obama is a genius" theory.

So do I: to get where he is with his colour he has to be.

He has now had a year to get his feet under the table. I think that the events of 2010 - as the next wave of the financial crisis sweeps in - will give him his chance to shine.

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson