Obama is a hard guy to figure out. He certainly seems off-kilter to me. His political philosophy is clearly collectivist. That is a easy to see, of course, but his personality is hard to figure out. He is a cypher to me. We know little of his personal life beyond that his family was a bit weird. His grandmother seems to have been relatively normal, and Obama trashed her as a "typical white person." Robin of Berkeley, a therapist, calls Obama a "nowhere man." that may be a good description of him.