Obama is like a child that knows all the words but has no idea what they mean. His world view is that people should heed what he says and ignore what he does. But because he has a dim view at best of what his words mean his rhetoric provides little in the way of useful information. To truly understand Obama and other "liberal-progressive-collectivists" you need to do the opposite. Pay close attention to what they do and completely ignore everything they say.
Obama, like most liberal-progressives, has a very primitive understanding of economics in that they believe money has mystical properties that can be controlled by edict (incantations) rather than market forces. So in that sense he is a mystic of the ephemeral.

I think there are elements of both Mystic of Muscle and Spirit in Obama's behavior. Muscle in the form of using the IRS and other agencies to attack conservative groups (like Gibson Guitar) and Mystic of Spirit in his rhetoric regarding "hope" and the sell job of "Ocare is wonderful" and global warming is "settled science". The Oracle has said it is so ... to believe otherwise is blasphemy.

Both.
He is the classic combination of Shaman and Hun. However, he reserves his use of force for his own people. The thought of foreign war scares the crap out of him. He reminds me of the big brother who will only beat up his younger brother. Other kids make him wet his pants.

Jeb Bush said: "I've already stated my views about Donald Trump,"

Actually he has state nothing, only rambled on and on. There is a book I love, that is well used for writing college papers.

Title: "How to say NOTING in 500 words."

THAT is what Jeb and the vast majority of politicians do. They say NOTHING in 500 words assuming will either get bored, or distracted and move on.

Obama is a pragmatist who has surrounded himself with a mix of altruists and socialists who want power to compel their vision. Obama is just mentally lost between pragmatic politics and his ideologues. The danger is he cant choose based on his values. He has to choose who to reward in his circle. He is a mystic of confusion.

0 is the consummate mystic!!!!!!! 0 functions within his own world of believing that everything he does IS correct and everything everyone else does is incorrect. all of the pawns that serve him actually know this but will not tell him he has no clothes because they like their pay checks and what ever power they currently have, which goes when he goes. I am also of the opinion that he has brain damage from all of the weed he has ingested since his youth and of course it is now legal so he has never stopped. mysticism is his creed.

he believes in "existence without consciousness" -- he exists
and we have no consciousness. -- j
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John McCain: Roosevelt said "speak softly and carry a big stick. Senator Obama likes to talk loudly."

Obama said, we will crush Al Qaeda and kill Osama bin Laden.

We killed him.

he believes in "existence without consciousness" -- he exists
and we have no consciousness. -- j
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I have been reading a philosopher who has stated our societal situation: "Everywhere the mediocre are combining in order to make themselves master! Everything that makes softt and effeminate, that serves the ends of the "people" or the "feminine", works in the favor of suffrage universal, ie, the dominion of "inferior men". But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and to the bar of judgment."
Will to Power, F. Nietzsche
The following is where I stand and it when becomes available I will be first in line: ".... the production of a synthetic, summarizing, justifying man for whose existence this tranformation of mankind into a machine is a precondition, as a base which he can invent his "higher form of being".(Transhuman).
F. Nietzsche
These people in the above statement/question are "mediocre" at best. Anyone in the Gulch is better than any who we walk amoung. We must integrate ourselves and have the spirit of the Lion. Our "Will" is our own We must be our own center and the "Lord within ourselves". We walk amoung the people alone, they fear and loath us but seek to touch the hem of our coats thinking that they will become an whole. They can't and will not. The mediocre are unable to do this. They are unable to go beyound the flesh.

Funny, The mind and 'Consciousness' go together, you can't have one without the other. obama is only a brain, everything is external, no accountability and he depends upon an interconnected collective. He is clearly Bicameral by nature and even more mystical than the mystics. (Mark Hamilton's use of mysticism which goes beyond what can not be seen) (Bicameral as used by Julian Jaynes as merely a split brain unaware of itself)
In short, he doesn't fit into either of the proposed categories because you can not have an 'I' (identity) without conscious awareness. That awareness of yourself creates conscience witch leads to a mind. (brain inside the head and the mind outside the head; the subconscious and awareness of such is your connection to your mind. I do not call him a parasitical humanoid for no reason. LOL

I would classify Obama as neither, rather as Valerie Jarrett's puppet He has no obvious values, other than advancing himself no matter to whom he must bow. JFK was a pragmatist, this guy is a Marxist, evil hater of mankind.I am not sure the man thinks, he blindly follows the teachings of Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky.

President Obama is his own god. Even psychologists have admitted that he has a case of extreme narcissism. And as his own god, he expects us to worship him and cater to his every whim and desire.

No thanks.

Cast in the same mold as the Marxists that programmed him, he is a mystic of muscle.

Neither.
I would say:
Ideology without any reason and logic.

I think you need Consciousness to define existence.

Otherwise humans are nothing more than instinctive animals with no reason, only action/reaction.

There is something very similar in Galt's radio address, right? (my book is on loan trying to broaden its influence).