Occidental college isn't a community college. it's one of the top liberal art schools in the country. i dunno where you get some of your stuff c-gold lol
its in the 2nd tier behind a carleton, amherst, or a middlebury, but it's probably the best out on the west coast besides maybe claremont mckenna. anybody getting into those schools is ivy league capable. the choice is what environment you want to be in. small school vs. large school setting.
When did you become an expert on evaluating liberal arts colleges.
Try Haverford, Swarthmore, Emory & Henry, Bates, Bodwoin, Williams, Connecticut Wesleyan, Colby they all dwarf Occidental by a mile. I'll give you Amherst & Middlebury.
BO is a better than average scholar everyone will give him that. So is William Ayers. Probably the most intellectually capable scholar to recently run for office was Dukakis from Swarthmore it didn't get him very far did it!
There is not an inextricable nexus between intellectual aspirations & presidential capabilies. If so Adlai Stevenson & Dukais would have become great presidents and Harry Truman would have not!