More of John Kerry's "uneducated" American soldiers on the Bataan Death March.
Posted on 10/31/2006 11:14:14 AM PST by seanmerc
During last year's presidential campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate often portrayed as intellectual and complex, while George W. Bush was the populist who mangled his sentences.
But newly released records show that Bush and Kerry had a virtually identical grade average at Yale University four decades ago.
In 1999, The New Yorker published a transcript indicating that Bush had received a cumulative score of 77 for his first three years at Yale and a roughly similar average under a non-numerical rating system during his senior year.
Kerry, who graduated two years before Bush, got a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy when he was applying for officer training school. He received four D's in his freshman year out of 10 courses, but improved his average in later years.
The grade transcript, which Kerry has always declined to release, was included in his Navy record. During the campaign the Globe sought Kerry's naval records, but he refused to waive privacy restrictions for the full file. Late last month, Kerry gave the Navy permission to send the documents to the Globe.
Kerry appeared to be responding to critics who suspected that there might be damaging information in the file about his activities in Vietnam. The military and medical records, however, appear identical to what Kerry has already released. This marks the first time Kerry's grades have been publicly reported.
The transcript shows that Kerry's 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.
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More of John Kerry's "uneducated" American soldiers on the Bataan Death March.
A marriage of convenience-just like the Clintons. Always an alterior motive-nothing real or true to anyone but themselves first .
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.
More "uneducated" Americans on Sunday, December 7, 1941. They were abord the USS Arizona. 1104 "uneducated" American men were killed.
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.
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Oh my......kerry is NOT apologizing. He is attacking the President. He's going to hear from me.
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.
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.
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!
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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...
Gack! That prominently-positioned lower lip is just too artifically superior.
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...)
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