kerry edwards
OK, it is coming up on July and "the johns" lost in November, take your f-ing bumper stickers off. It ain't gonna happen, the Supreme Court won't save you, this just labels you as a loser. Get over yourselves and move on. Go ahead and get your Hilary/Sharpton '08 stickers and cover the old ones up.
While I am on a political rant, how about the release of grades from Yale showing George W. Bush had better grades than Kerry?!?!?! So much for saying Kerry is smarter. Gore was also near retarded in school, so the liberals are actually the dopes out there. WOW ,.. no wonder Kerry refused to release them until after the election.
While I am on a political rant, how about the release of grades from Yale showing George W. Bush had better grades than Kerry?!?!?! So much for saying Kerry is smarter. Gore was also near retarded in school, so the liberals are actually the dopes out there. WOW ,.. no wonder Kerry refused to release them until after the election.
posted by Desperate Househusband at
9:14 AM
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lol...how do you really feel about Kerry?
Well,.. I guess I can say that Kerry is my favorite Senator from Massachusets(sp?),.. but just barely
What are you, high? Where do you get your information, the Rush Limbaugh show?
Bush got into school by his daddy's greasy connections sliding him past admissions requirements.
So wouldn't the same people fix his grades to reflect he was capable of passing classes?
Just like his daddy's military connected friends had to fix this jackasses military records so he could pretend he did his patriotic duty.
And they didn't even do a good job at that, because we all found out anyway Bush spent the entire time getting high and drunk. Those records were fixed also.
I see why this low standard would be ok with you, however. I read your excuses for avoiding the military.
When the rest of the country catches up to the world, and it finally makes the six o'clock news that Bush and Co. are as rotten as day old dog crap, I'll bet you'll be the first to deny you ever supported him.
what a complete flake. If you don't agree with it then those crazy Bush guys must have cheated or fixed those grades. Apparently they went back in time and fixed John Kerry's grades while they had those files open. Let me guess, Jeb Bush fixed the Florida election, Larry Bush fixed Ohio, Oscar Bush paid off the Supreme Court. It is all a big conspiracy, to make you look like a moron,.. and it has worked.
Put down the crack pipe.
By the way my injury that precludes me from military service was more severe than anything our friend John Kerry got in Vietnam.
You even give liberals a bad name.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/06/07/yale_grades_portray_kerry_as_a_lackluster_student?mode=PF
there is your link,.. apparently the Bush people have the media on it too!
here is what it says
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | June 7, 2005
WASHINGTON -- 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 authorizes release of his full military and medical records. A7.
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.
Under Yale's grading system in effect at the time, grades between 90 and 100 equaled an A, 80-89 a B, 70-79 a C, 60 to 69 a D, and anything below that was a failing grade. In addition to Kerry's four D's in his freshman year, he received one D in his sophomore year. He did not fail any courses.
''I always told my Dad that D stood for distinction," Kerry said yesterday in a written response to questions, noting that he has previously acknowledged that he spent a lot of time learning to fly instead of focusing on his studies.
Kerry's weak grades came despite years of education at some of the world's most elite prep schools, ranging from Fessenden School in Massachusetts to St. Paul's School in New Hampshire.
It is noteworthy, however, that Kerry received a high honor at Yale despite his mediocre grades: He was chosen to deliver his senior class oration, a testament to his reputation as a public speaker. He delivered a speech questioning the wisdom of the Vietnam War, in which he would soon see combat.
Kerry gradually improved his grades, averaging 81 in his senior year. His highest single grade was an 89, for a political science class in his senior year. Despite his slow start, he went on to be a top student at Naval Candidate School, command a patrol boat in Vietnam, graduate from law school, and become a prosecutor, lieutenant governor, US senator, and presidential candidate.
In his Navy application, Kerry made clear that he spent much of his college time on extracurricular activities, including the Yale Political Union, the Debating Association, soccer, hockey, fencing, and membership in the elite Skull and Bones Society. Asked to describe nonschool training that qualified him for the Navy, Kerry wrote: ''A great deal of sailing -- ocean and otherwise, including some navigation. Scuba diving. Rifle. Beginning of life saving." He said his special interests were ''filming," writing, and politics, noting that the latter subject occupied 15 hours per week.
Gaddis Smith, a retired Yale history professor who taught both Kerry and Bush, said in a telephone interview that he vividly remembers Kerry as a student during the 1964-1965 school year, when Kerry would have been a junior. However, Smith said he doesn't have a specific memory about Bush.
Based on what Smith recalls teaching that year, Kerry scored a 71 and 79 in two of Smith's courses. When Smith was told those scores, he responded: ''Uh, oh. I thought he was good student. Those aren't very good grades." To put the grades in perspective, Smith said that he had a well-earned reputation for being tough, and noted that such grades would probably be about 10 points higher in a similar class today because of the impact of what he called ''grade inflation."
Bush went to Yale from 1964 to 1968; his highest grades were 88s in anthropology, history, and philosophy, according to The New Yorker article. He received one D in his four years, a 69 in astronomy. Bush has said he was a C student.
Like Kerry, Bush reportedly suffered through a difficult freshman year and then pulled his grades up.
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