I think he lusts for the 'purple', and his efforts are designed to create a 'Chavez-style' dictatorship.
But hopefully you are right, and he's just a corrupt pol.
Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of Indonesia, who is also known as B. Hussein Obama, is a confirmed Communist.
Barry/B. Hussein also considers himself to be a World Citizen.
America is just the first of the low-hanging fruit that B. Hussein plans to harvest.