"Nuanced" or Nitwitted?

Following up on Son of Nixon's lead, Soxblog dares to ask: Is John Kerry a dolt?

Where are John Kerry's grades and SAT scores?

We knew Al Gore's and George Bush's grades and SAT scores more than a year before the election last time around. Why is the media embargoing John Kerry's academic indicators?

I have my suspicions. If John Kerry were an A student, or if he'd scored 1500 on the SAT's, I think we'd have heard about it by now. I think we'd be hearing not just about John Kerry's amazing four Cong-killin' months in Vietnam, but about his heroic three hours taking a standardized admissions test.

And Soxblog points out that it was relatively easy, in pre-meritocracy days, for well-connected, well-bred young men to get into Harvard. George Bush got into Harvard's Business School, for example. But Genius John, who is just as blue-blooded as any Bush and in fact went to the same superelite prep school, had to settle for respected-but-not-elite BC Law.

Why?

Where are Kerry's grades and scores? Why is no one apparently even attempting to dig these records up?

Hat tip to Kausfiles.

posted by Ace at 05:19 PM

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