Obama is moving slowly but surely towards more overt state socialism.
There is an interesting twist of crony capitalism in his Administration especially from his economics team. It will be interesting to see how that develops. Will it become something akin to the post-Soviet Russian oligarchs with official state ties?
"The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse."
R. J. Rummel, Mass Murder and Genocide, 1994