Obama, extreme leftist views???

What I see is that most of the country's resources are currently going to Wall Street, not Main Street. The people's resources are propping up the capitalists. If Obama was really launching some kind of leftist revolution, he would simply seize these companies, and turn the sources of production (and their returns) to society.

It's tough getting much production out of a bunch of pissed off (or scared) peasants, so making sure there's some kind of social safety net of the Social Democratic style, like much of Europe, could actually be in the long term interest of capitalist/wealth.