Al Gore's grades weren't that great either. No one really made a big deal of it during the 2000 election. I was wondering why.

One might be tempted to think that there is some sort of slightly leftwardly leanings in the mainstream press corp to account for this. Excuse me while I tighten my tinfoil hat to keep those kinds of thoughts from getting in.

In defense of both of them, Ivy League grade inflation is an issue (not that I'm exactly complaining, I benefited from it at Harvard in the early '90s). A "C" in the '60s would have been a lot more respectable than the same mark now.

As I understand it, "Social Networking Vets for Truth" is claiming that Kerry has vastly overstated his extracurricular activities and that the award of certain trophies is highly suspect.

(In Kerry's defense it should be pointed out that the group's membership is made up almost entirely of individuals who served on other hockey and debating teams and not directly with Kerry himself.)

Thanks as always for the link, Ace!

I didn't even notice that stuff about being too involved in extra-cirriculars like "sailing" and the "beginning of life saving."

Did the records say anything about his flying wonder dog and if he was on any of the sailing or life saving adventures?

Monsieur Douchenozzle was supposed to be fluent in French--having summered there as a youth-- and the best he can muster is a C.

I wonder if he took beginning livesaving so he could do a better job of diving for interns than Teddy?

Note the article says "on a par" and "virtually identical" without ever coming out and saying "lower" or "slightly lower". If Kerry's GPA had been infinitesmally higher than Bush's, who doubts that the Globe would have taken every opportunity to label it "higher" or "slightly higher"?

I know part of his extracurricular did not involve sex unless it was with himself based on the picture that was posted on Drudge.

Holy crap, Lurch has nothing on young John Kerry.

"First he pulled strings to get into my class. He was supposed to pass a physical for this PE Session, but was able to talk his way out of it. Then he failed to show up at all towards the end of the semester. I would have given him an F but he don't need the greif. Make sure not to have him in any more classes."

-recently uncovered faculty private records given to me buy this guy named rico down at the docks who swears he got it from a concerned citizen who works at yale

Er...

"...noble-born..."?

A while back, Clinton stalwart Lanny Davis had an opinion piece in the LA Times where he recalled his time at Yale alongside Bush. He warned that anybody underestimating W was only setting themselves up for a fall because Bush, in Davis' opinion, only got middling grades for lack of effort and not lack of ability. Just getting passing grades from Yale in those days was well beyond the average college student.

The Kerry folks could have gotten this directly from Lanny Davis during the campaign but OTOH, the Clinton inner circle was regarded as not wanting Kerry to win in order to open things up for Hillary in '08.

Holy CRAP, HOW DID that monstrosity known as Kerry EVER get laid? Gad, I thought the man was at his ugliest NOW. Barfola.

Later,
bbeck

Lucky for him, he eventually grew into his head.

Chose one to take your daughter out? shame on Mr Bush telling porkies about his grades, really did he think we would be fooled by his claims of c grade when really they were B???

In his Navy application, Kerry made clear (lied about) that he spent much of his college time on extracurricular activities, including the Yale Political Union and the Debating Association, (getting stoned every day and talking shit about the government)

soccer, hockey, fencing, (peeked through hole in girls locker room and jerked off while the teams were changing) and membership in the elite Skull and Bones Society (bribed way into a meeting before being rapidly ejected)

Asked to describe nonschool training that qualified him for the Navy, Kerry wrote: ''A great deal of sailing -- (as evidenced by the recent famous pictures of Kerry trying to windsurf and capsizing into the drink) ocean (bottom) and otherwise, including some navigation (got lost at Cape Cod). Scuba diving. (looked at scuba in store) Rifle (fucked around with a bb gun one day). Beginning of life saving." (conned co-ed into letting him try out "life saving" techniges-got slapped when he tried to slip her the tongue)

He said his special interests were ''filming," writing, and politics, noting that the latter subject occupied 15 hours per week. (trying to rewrite PT 109 to star himself as the intreped skipper who saved the day and was wounded by dangerous shrapnel from a bottle of Tequila he dropped).

Numbskulls and Boneheads