[KYGrandma]

Carter was near the top of his Naval Academy class, and was able to pick nuclear subs. Can't remember what his number was. If I come across my alumni book I will let you know. Also, I am not a Carter fan. Even the alumni wouldn't endorse his for President, they chose Gerald Ford.

[MrB]

The funny thing about Carter is, being a nyukular engineer, he pronounced the word the same way that the leftards make fun of Bush for.

[wideawake]

Carter was near the top of his Naval Academy class

He finished in the top 8% of his class at Annapolis in 1945 (59th out of 820), but this number should be judged against the fact that he was a transfer student who was able to import grades from the much less demanding Georgia Southwestern into his total grade average, and against the fact that many top candidates who would normally have graduated Annapolis in 1945 were serving in the Pacific fleet instead.

It was a very special year with very special circumstances.

After graduation he chose to continue his studies rather than follow most of his classmates to the Pacific theater.

and was able to pick nuclear subs

It would be pretty tough to pick nuclear subs before they existed.

He never did serve on a nuclear sub, since he resigned from the program before he was scheduled to complete it. The first nuclear sub was launched two years after he resigned from the Navy.

He only took a few months of postgraduate physics (studies he abandoned not long after V-E day) and never served on a nuclear submarine.

yet until this day the myth persists among many that he was a nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the founding of America's nuclear submarine program.

[chesley]

I've got a pretty high IQ, too. Although not in Mr. Carter's elevated class, I did manage to pick up a PhD in metallurgical engineering.

However, as my wife and co-workers would line up to tell you, I am utterly lacking in common sense and mechanical ability both.

Facility with words and numbers, does not add up to anything except facility with words and numbers. Clinton is hollow inside, with no moral center. Carter has a moral center, but something, perhaps a diet heavy in peanuts, has twisted and deformed it.

Neither was worth a spit as President. I could throw a rock at a FReeper picnic and hit a better president than either.