There's been this concerted campaign by the media and liberals to portray W. as being too stupid to be President. I'm curious as to what their basis for this was, other than their general hatred of Republicans.
Anyhoo, I came across this history on the "smartest kid in the class": (Source: Washinton Post, March 19, 2000; "Gore's Grades Belie Image of Studiousness; His School Transcripts Are a Lot Like Bush's,"
"From ninth through twelfth grade at St. Alban's School in Gore earned an equal number of C's and B's in English, but no A's. In history during those four years, he also moved between C's and B's until his senior year, when he broke through with an A-plus in Sacred Studies, a religious history course. He pulled steady C's for all three years of high school French. The one course in which he received straight A's was art, which he took all four years of high school.
What makes Gore's lackluster grades all the more interesting is that he was, by all accounts, a hard worker. He had to apply himself to be mediocre. And he didn't do much better at Harvard, making a C and a C-minus in his first two English courses. In his sophomore year, Gore's grades were lower than any semester recorded on Bush's transcript from Yale. That year, Gore received one D, one C-minus, two C's, two C-pluses, and one B-minus. Gore improved in his junior year and earned a B, a B-minus, and an A-minus in three government courses.
After college and the Army, Gore went to Vanderbilt for graduate work in religious studies. Gore failed to complete any of the three courses he took in the fall of 1971, and those incompletes eventually lapsed into F's. He returned for another semester in the spring of 1972, when two more incompletes turned into F's. At that point, Gore enrolled in Vanderbilt's law school, where his course grades ranged from a high of 81 (in Legal Writing) to a low of 69 (in Civil Procedures). He dropped out in 1976.
If political writers insist on bringing academics into the equation, they should remember this: One candidate (Gore) was an average student at an Ivy League school who later flunked out of graduate school and dropped out of law school. The other candidate (Bush) was an average student at an Ivy League school who later earned a graduate degree (MBA from Harvard) from another Ivy League school (and became a jet pilot, to boot)."
So, Bush may not be all that and a bag of chips, BUT at least he's nowhere as stupid (academically speaking) as y'all (You Commies know who you are!) like to claim. If the media is lying about how smart Gore is, what else are they saying to prop him up that's not true?
Anyhoo, I came across this history on the "smartest kid in the class": (Source: Washinton Post, March 19, 2000; "Gore's Grades Belie Image of Studiousness; His School Transcripts Are a Lot Like Bush's,"
"From ninth through twelfth grade at St. Alban's School in Gore earned an equal number of C's and B's in English, but no A's. In history during those four years, he also moved between C's and B's until his senior year, when he broke through with an A-plus in Sacred Studies, a religious history course. He pulled steady C's for all three years of high school French. The one course in which he received straight A's was art, which he took all four years of high school.
What makes Gore's lackluster grades all the more interesting is that he was, by all accounts, a hard worker. He had to apply himself to be mediocre. And he didn't do much better at Harvard, making a C and a C-minus in his first two English courses. In his sophomore year, Gore's grades were lower than any semester recorded on Bush's transcript from Yale. That year, Gore received one D, one C-minus, two C's, two C-pluses, and one B-minus. Gore improved in his junior year and earned a B, a B-minus, and an A-minus in three government courses.
After college and the Army, Gore went to Vanderbilt for graduate work in religious studies. Gore failed to complete any of the three courses he took in the fall of 1971, and those incompletes eventually lapsed into F's. He returned for another semester in the spring of 1972, when two more incompletes turned into F's. At that point, Gore enrolled in Vanderbilt's law school, where his course grades ranged from a high of 81 (in Legal Writing) to a low of 69 (in Civil Procedures). He dropped out in 1976.
If political writers insist on bringing academics into the equation, they should remember this: One candidate (Gore) was an average student at an Ivy League school who later flunked out of graduate school and dropped out of law school. The other candidate (Bush) was an average student at an Ivy League school who later earned a graduate degree (MBA from Harvard) from another Ivy League school (and became a jet pilot, to boot)."
So, Bush may not be all that and a bag of chips, BUT at least he's nowhere as stupid (academically speaking) as y'all (You Commies know who you are!) like to claim. If the media is lying about how smart Gore is, what else are they saying to prop him up that's not true?
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