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.
And Bill Clinton refused to release his medical records although Dole and Bush 41 had no problem doing so.
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My goodness, that is a hideous picture which accompanies the article at the Drudge Report. It's his god-given right to look that way, but must he be all in our faces with it?
He IS Herman Munster!
Must be a slow news day. I read a story along these lines sometime last year, and possibly in Podhoretz's book too. Harvard and Yale are the pinnacle of academic snobbishness except while W is enrolled. Somehow he must have gotten through on his connections.
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