“often the deliberative air of an ivory tower intellectual”
Seriously? He is not smart. Listen to Netanyahu, then listen to Obama. No comparison.
He has the air of an intellectual; he does not seem to have the mind of one.
That in and of itself is not a reason to not be President. The best Presidents in history, with one exception (Jefferson), were not intellectuals: Lincoln, TR, Eisenhower, Reagan, Bush 43 were well read, but they left being intellectual to advisors, such as Dean Atcheson or Bill Bennett or Condoleezza Rice (or, in other instances, Rusk, Kissinger, Brzezinski). Obama is a horrible President because he is an pseudo-intellectual agitator, rather than a leader: he knows how to put on the airs of intellect, and how to stir up trouble, but not how to truly be wise, nor how to deal with trouble when it comes.