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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Excellent topic, Albania, and I also agree with Jinnkai's assessment. I find it interesting that Kerry and Bush went to Yale and both had mediocre grades, so we might assume that they are of equal intelligence. The perceived intelligence of each in their first debate would never have suggested that. Kerry was communicating clearly, whereas Bush struggled throughout the debate.
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Grades and having similar GPA's mean nothing. Kerry could have taken far heavier courses, not saying that in fact is what happened just saying it is a possibility as is Bush taking harder courses than Kerry.
My 8th grade English teacher told me once when she saw me doing just enough to get C's..... "The measure of a man and his intelligence is not what he has, but how he uses it. The man who may not have it, yet works hard is by far truly the more intelligent man then the man who has intelligence, yet coasts through life expecting his intelligence to get him through."
It took me many years to realize exactly what she meant, but I can see the latter in Bush and the former in Kerry, but that is just my opinion comparing the 2. Not that my opinion or the comparison of the 2 matter.