Kammala wannan jumla: A farkon watan Afrilu na shekarar 2009, dan jaridar Amurka Marc Ambinder ya yi hasashen cewa shugaban kasar da lokaci zai kasance ya dauki matsayi mafi mahimmanci game da matsayin shari'a na fursunoni. A halin da ake ciki, farfesa a fannin siyasar kasa da kasa Daniel Drezner ya ba da shawarar cewa koyarwar Obama ta sami tasiri ne daga masanin falsafar Faransa Montesquieu, wanda tunaninsa a cikin kalmomin Drezner za a iya taƙaita shi a taƙaice "rikice-rikice marasa amfani suna raunana rikice-rikice masu mahimmanci". Koyarwar Obama, a cikin fassarar Drezner, ita ce watsi da manufofin kasashen waje waɗanda suka tabbatar da rashin amfani da rashin farin ciki, don mayar da hankali ga al'amuran da suka fi muhimmanci da gaggawa. A ranar 16 ga Afrilu, E.J. Dionne ya rubuta wani shafi don The Washington Post yana nuna kyakkyawar ra'ayi game da abin da ya gani a matsayin Ka'idar Obama. Rubutun ya zo ne kai tsaye bayan nasarar
ceton Kyaftin Richard Phillips daga 'yan fashin teku na Somalia. Ya bayyana koyarwar a matsayin "wani nau'i na gaskiya wanda ba ya jin tsoron yin amfani da ikon Amurka amma yana sane cewa yin amfani da shi dole ne a daidaita shi ta hanyar amfani da iyaka da kuma fahimtar kai". Dionne ya kuma nuna tasirin Reinhold Niebuhr a kan Obama, kuma ya nakalto gargadin Niebuhr cewa wasu daga cikin "manyan haɗari ga dimokiradiyya sun fito ne daga tsattsauran ra'ayi na masu son ɗabi'a waɗanda ba su da masaniya game da cin hanci da rashawa na son kai" da kuma cewa "al'umma da ke da matsanancin ikon siyasa tana da jaraba sau biyu don ƙetare iyakokin damar tarihi".