FLASHBACK: Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student

Boston.com national news ^ | June 7, 2005 | Michael Kranish

[isthisnickcool]

More of John Kerry's "uneducated" American soldiers on the Bataan Death March.

[unkus]

A marriage of convenience-just like the Clintons. Always an alterior motive-nothing real or true to anyone but themselves first .

[Merry]

Some dimwit Democrat on FNC right now is blaming Bush for Kerry's remark. Can't Kerry just take responsibility for his stupid remark? I guess not because he was in Viet Nam.

[isthisnickcool]

More "uneducated" Americans on Sunday, December 7, 1941. They were abord the USS Arizona. 1104 "uneducated" American men were killed.

[VRWCmember]

Lilly, Grandpa has been putting things in my shorts again!

[Gay State Conservative]

I bet Yale is embarrassed that they gave this idiot a degree.

Having had some experience with the Ivys and,as a result,having some knowledge of how they "think",I believe it's far more likely that Yale (and Harvard) regret having given Bush a degree.

[GOPJ]

bump

[WVNan]

Oh my......kerry is NOT apologizing. He is attacking the President. He's going to hear from me.

[Verginius Rufus]

It never has been explained how The New Yorker got a copy of Bush's undergraduate transcript, which played a part in the Democrats constructing their "Bush is stupid" theme for the 2000 election campaign. Maybe some Democrat in the records office at Yale decided to make a copy and send it to the author of the hit piece in The New Yorker?

I suspect that (1) there are strict rules about releasing such records to unauthorized parties and (2) no action was taken and no investigation was made in this case.

[peeps36]

A Marine who had no formal education is still ten times the man John Kerry could ever be.The only thing prestigious school did for Kerry was turn him into an arrogant moron.

[GOPJ]

Oh my......kerry is NOT apologizing. He is attacking the President. He's going to hear from me.

You're right - it's bad enough that he insulted every member of our brave military, but to then attack the President instead of apologizing for being such a jerk? It's beyond the pale. Shame on Kerry. Shame on Democrats.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

And 2 D's in history class as well. He's doomed to repeat because he never learned anything from history (i.e. Vietnam era). Just keep shooting off your mouth, sKerry!

[Secret Agent Man]

You Rang?

[Redbob]

This is also the anniversary of the sinking of the Reuben James by a German u-boat before we even entered the war.

And FDR's response to that was...

[bannie]

Gack! That prominently-positioned lower lip is just too artifically superior.

[Redbob]

Seems to me that, during the '60s at least, a 70s average at Yale wasn't all that easy.

For me, it was impossible: thus the degrees from Auburn and Wayne State, instead.

So I find it a little hard to believe any of these tales about how "stupid" either of these gentlemen were.

(OTOH, I was taking intensive German, quantum physics, philosophy, chemistry, and calculus...)