06-07-2005, 12:56 PM
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Junkie
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Bush is stupider
Well, apparently not.
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Bush just as smart as Kerry, uni marks show
By Michael Kranish in Washington
June 8, 2005
John Kerry … "I always told my dad that D stood for distinction."
During last year's presidential campaign, John Kerry was the candidate often portrayed as intellectual and complex, while George Bush was the populist who mangled his sentences.
But newly released records show that Mr Bush and Senator Kerry had a virtually identical grade average at Yale University four decades ago.
In 1999 The New Yorker published a transcript indicating that Mr Bush had received a cumulative score of 77 for his first three years at Yale and a roughly similar average during his senior year.
Senator Kerry, who graduated two years before Mr Bush, received a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that he sent to the US Navy when he applied for officer training school. He received four Ds, out of 10 courses, in his freshman year but improved his average in later years.
The grades transcript, which Senator Kerry had always declined to release, was included in his navy military record. Late last month he gave the navy permission to send the documents to the Globe.
Senator Kerry appeared to be responding to critics who suspected that there might be damaging information in the file about his activities in Vietnam.
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The military and medical records, however, appear identical to what the senator had already released. This marks the first time his grades have been publicly reported.
The transcript shows that his freshman-year average was 71. He scored a 61 in geology, a 63 and 68 in two history classes, and a 69 in political science. His top score was a 79, in another political science course. Another of his strongest efforts, a 77, came in French class.
Under Yale's grading system at the time, grades between 90 and 100 equalled an A, 80-89 a B, 70-79 a C, 60 to 69 a D, and anything below that was a failing grade.
In addition to Senator Kerry's four Ds in his freshman year, he received one D in his second year, but he did not fail any courses.
"I always told my dad that D stood for distinction," Senator Kerry said on Monday in a written response to questions, noting that he has previously acknowledged that he spent a lot of time learning to fly instead of focusing on his studies.
The senator did, however, receive a high honour at Yale despite his mediocre grades: he was chosen to deliver his senior class oration, a testament to his reputation as a public speaker. He delivered a speech questioning the wisdom of the Vietnam War, in which he would soon see combat.
Like Senator Kerry, Mr Bush reportedly experienced a difficult freshman year, then improved his grades.
The Boston Globe
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REF: http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Bus...123840079.html
So, just goes to show that Bush, inept as he is at spontaneous public speaking, is no dunce. I'm surprised, to be perfectly honest, as I always believed he was honestly a little dumberer than Kerry.
"D stood for distinction"
hehehe
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