Can I see your grades, Obama? I hear they were mediocre!
Of course, from another perspective altogether, one might say that for a lazy student to get as far as Obama has requires another kind of "smarts."
Grifters and con-men have that kind...it's called dishonesty.
Ok, regardless of what the opinion is of any of the following Presidents and their politics or political views, the following are clearly ahead of Obama in pure intellectual ability:
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
James Madison
John Quincy Adams
Franklin Pierce
Abraham Lincoln
James Garfield
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
William Taft
Franklin Roosevelt
George H.W. Bush
William Clinton
Again, this is just pure “intelligence” not support for any on the list or disrespect for any not on the list. These men who served at President were clearly intellectual heavy-weights. Unlike our current President.
A “gaffe” was famously defined by (liberal) Michael Kinsley as an instance where a politician accidentally tells the truth. This was no gaffe — it was an outright lie.