What type of President is Obama?

It looks like Obama is going to do Health Care. Bill Clinton couldn't do Health Care. Obama just opens talks with Iran. No recent President has ever done that. Haven't done that since the revolution, right? However, he pretends to be religious, he's an ivy-leaguer, his wife is racist, and I'm not sure what his basic ideals are. Maybe someone that's read one of his books can enlighten me as to what he thinks in terms of ideals.
In all the interviews of Obama that I've found, he's very evasive of tough questions and vague when answering them. It gives me the impression that he doesn't know all that much. A lot of the journalists call him a "pragmatist". Is that basically what he is? A dude who doesn't know that much but looks at problems realistically and critically, gets some good advice, and tries to solve it in the best way?
I get the impression he didn't have a very solid ideology when his presidency started, but he must be forming one as it goes on. He seems to be very much an interventionist economically (though we're yet to see any introductions in terms of economic regulation, I believe), open and practical in terms of international relations (but what about Cuba?), and he's increased focus on racial imbalance in the workforce (apparently this part of the government had been used for religious aims during the Bush administration). To me that's all the big stuff where I can clearly see his view on the issue, but they're still not as clear as I'd like them to be.

I'll start by saying that he's at the very least, the first President who's been legitimately elected in a while...
As to his ideology, I think pragmatism is fair.  This puts him in a league with Kennedy, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt.  When an intelligent person finds himself in circumstances that are antagonistic to well thought out solutions, like politics, pragmatism is the only reasonable response.  If you can't do what you should, then at least do what you can.  I'm always amused when accusations of a lack of experience are leveled at a candidate, because I know that "experience" in politics amounts to the ability to compromise your ideals and keep your head down.  President Obama is gaining experience.  He's learning that people will cheer when you call for change, and boo when you call for help.  He's learning to do what he can, rather than what he should, because that's what most people settle for, and our political system reflects that lack of integrity.

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He's the ill-informed, indecisive kind.

A do-nothing poster boy.

The ineffectual center-left compromise candidate that comes before every hard-right military dictatorship.

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You mean like Clinton and Carter?