agreed that this article should concentrate on obama's positions not their policy effect or what opinions people have of them outside views are okay in terms of analyzing and getting to the heart of things neutral independent reliable secondary sourcing is better than simply picking and choosing among obama's diect statements but outside opinions either reported directly by primary sourcing or coverage of those opinions are not relevant and would turn this article into something else that is far less encyclopedic one thing to note as i've pointed out before is that positions is a nebulous thing because it encompasses campaign promises and platforms official statements legislative proposals actual official acts and coverage of obama's actual beliefs and motivations on things that's a lot of different things to wrap up in a bundle and we should be clear to distinguish among them