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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Isn't it interesting that one of his best grades was in a French class?
And where did he wind up? THE MILITARY! So you see? Kerry was right on the money with his words of wisdom.
Flashback to Jun 05.
69 in political science?...........No wonder his foot is always in his mouth..........
John Kerry is a very unattractive person. Period!
That is all.
This whole Kerry thing reminds me of his last "hunt" just a short time before the last presidential election. This guy could not have much intellect as he continues to find himself standing in a great big pile of crap-frquently! He opens his mouth just days before an election and manages to offend those serving the country in the military-again. This guy is a joke.
Some of John Kerry's "uneducated" American soldiers at work.
His mother was French born, he spent his summers in France, his first cousin is the mayor of a town in Normandy. This would be like you or me getting a 77 in English our first year at the Sorbonne.
"senator" kerry was dumber than a box of rocks at college according to his grades.
He was attractive enough to marry two rich women. Either they were hard up or he is hung like John Holmes.
I do believe that Theresa just wanted a way in to the Capitol Hill society parties after her husband died ,and Kerry was her ticket.
Not a flattering comparison for the box of rocks, is it?
I am sure that many in the academies and the general military had higher GPAs and SAT scores then Kerry. He looks dumb because he is dumb. I bet Yale is embarrassed that they gave this idiot a degree.
Eek! Just in time for Halloween.
You will need a much larger area to post the pictures of nearly every liberal in America.
Massachusett's two degenerate playboys at work.
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