Maybe this is one of the reasons that Kerry did not want his service record released.
I never get tired of this story....
Goes to show with both gentlemen, that you don't need either brains or academic ability or knowledge to become either President of the United States or the runner up. Our standards have fallen too far.
Okay, how do FReepers' scores match up?
Anyone knows what Cheney's grades was at Yale? I heard he flunked out but later got his act together. Karl Rowe also didn't have a good academic career but Dick Cheney and Karl Rowe is thought of as two of the smartest operators in Washington.
Not defending Kerry or Bush but grades is not always an indicator of brains.
On DU they're saying this is becasue of "grade inflation". Still, George was smart enough to be President, and Kerry was not.
Bush just wants people to think he's dumb so they can 'misunderestimate' him. He's sharp as a tack, and only dumb people can't seem to realize that.
I understand that Yale is, or at least was, a demanding school, but to go four years and never once get an A?
Clearly, it didn't apply to Ronald Reagan, whose Economics training and his deep love and reading of the writings of America's Founders made him far superior in his understanding of the challenges of the Cold War era and how to deal with them. His handwritten letters and notes, as well as his own thoughts in his speeches reveal a far deeper intellectual ability than his critics would have had us believe.
Even the attempts at discrediting Dan Quayle were pathetic and reveal much more of the failed and failing ideas of the Left than they did of the qualifications of Quayle, whose conservative ideas were the Left's real target, not his mental qualifications.
If one wanted a quick check and comparison of the intellect and decision-making ability of George Bush vs. John Kerry, one had to look no further than the first choice each made for a Vice President for these United States. Really now! What did the millionaire personal injury lawyer from NC bring to the job except ambition and pompous rhetoric?
By the way, in this post-9-11 world, have you ever heard anyone (Right or Left) say: "I'm just so sorry that Al Gore is not our President"? Didn't think so!!
That means Dubya is MUCH smarter than Effin' Kerry - no?
I think of John Adams, who said:
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. --John Adams (1735-1826)
and,
"It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.--John Adams
Divine Providence, believed by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin and others present at the creation of the "miracle of America," to have intended America to be a beacon for liberty, or, as Reagan remembered, a "shining city on a hill," yet inspires men and women to spread the philosophy of light and liberty to a world in which darkness and oppression rule.
Light and liberty vs. darkness and oppression: this is the battle. Reagan understood that, as did the Founders.
Adams' son, John Quincy, challenged all future generations:
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.