I’m sorry, but intelligence is as intelligence does. I’ve not seen this President do a single intelligent thing. I’ve not seen evidence of a single intelligent thing he did prior to being elected president.
This whole myth of an intelligent Obama is a whole-cloth fabrication by the leftist media, along with every other superlative that they invented for him. Obama is nothing more an the invention of the media. And there’s not a single iota of evidence to contradict this view.
I think he believes it; I suspect, like another poster, that his academic credentials tell a very different story. I also suspect that he has been told his entire life that he is very special and that he "doesn't test well" and that tests such as the SAT "don't do a good job of measuring the type of intelligence you have" and other, similar nonsense.
He seems to believe that he is so much more intelligent than the rest of us that we are not really capable of comprehending just how intelligent he is and how good and wise his decisions are. That, of course, is the only reason why we don't line up to bow down and kiss his feet.