Intelligence isn't one-size-fits-all. Obama is clearly very intelligent, he just has zero executive experience or temperament and it shows.
As much as many people either don't know or won't admit, being an effective executive with managerial functions is a very difficult job that requires a specific and significantly advanced skill set.
Of course, many think that anyone who advanced beyond them into managerial positions don't deserve that and didn't earn that and cheated someone to get that 'n stuff, but they're not interested in what happens in the real world.
What's "very intelligent" though?
He's not in the ranks of professors. He's not in the ranks of physicians. He's not in the ranks of engineers.
At 130 IQ a person is in the top 2.3% of the population and Obama's not at that level, he admitted that he received affirmative action in university. I'd put in about 120+ or so. A number of his University of Chicago colleagues have observed that he mimics the affectations of an intellectual but doesn't actually say much of anything that is original, so he appears more intelligent than he actually is.
Again... as someone earlier mentioned... He is Chance-- (played by Peter Sellers)...simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted adviser to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.... in the movie "Being There"! Everytime I see Obama speak I'm reminded of some of Chance's memorable lines...
[With other poor black seniors, watching Chance on TV]
Louise: It's for sure a white man's world in America. Look here: I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. And I'll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th' ears. Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you've gotta be is white in America, to get whatever you want. Gobbledy-gook!
[Riding in a car for the first time]
Chance the Gardener: This is just like television, only you can see much further.
Obama recently said:
(CNSNews.com) - Speaking in a
video message to residents of West African countries currently experiencing outbreaks of Ebola, President Barack Obama dispensed advice on how residents can avoid the disease, including:
"You cannot get it through casual contact like sitting next to someone on a bus."
At the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising Americans who travel to the Ebola-stricken nations to "avoid public transportation!!!
Obama You Can t Get Ebola Sitting Next to Someone on a Bus CDC Avoid Public Transportation CNS News