I find him more to continue along the trends of a very mixed economy dependent on big government. This includes aspects of Socialism, but the biggest threat here is corporatism, which Obama is in big support of. Socialism is scary, but for Obama to be a true Socialist he would have to disband his unfiltered support of the largest corporations.

Mixed economies, as we see, have become even more dangerous than the threat of Socialism because now we have a bureaucratic mess that is almost impossible to dismantle. The entire economy is becoming dependent on the largest corporations and those corporations are dependent on the strength and cooperation of government. We've created a dilemma in which if we decide to cut back on government drastically (in order to restore independence to the people) we would have to go through major sacrifices (specifically the dependents, whom are the masses at the moment). It's an infused machine of business with government. Socialism was easy to get rid of, but a system like this has too many supporters and dependents (and most of them don't know about the infusion of corporatism and socialism in this new, mixed economy).