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43's records were leaked after he became prez ... nobody needed to know his grades to to figure out he was a dope
As far as I remember GW's grades were higher than Kerry's AND Gore's grades.
ETA: They were released in 1999 not leaked.
College Transcripts of George W. Bush Show C Average
he was ranked 894 out of 899 in the Naval Academy.
C student ....
And?
"WASHINGTON (USATODAY.com) — While the general impression during the 2004 presidential campaign was that Democrat John Kerry was the intellectual superior to President Bush, it turns out that their grades while undergraduate students at Yale were remarkably similar.
In fact, Bush's were a tad higher. His four-year average was 77; Kerry's 76. Both were C students. Kerry graduated from Yale in 1966; Bush in 1968.
But last year, when Bush and Kerry were campaigning against each other, we only knew Bush's grades, revealed in 1999 during his first presidential campaign by the New Yorker magazine. Kerry's were widely assumed to be much higher, a notion his campaign did little to quell and much to promote.
When Bush's grades were first made public in 1999, he was then the Texas governor and Republican front-runner for the 2000 presidential nomination. Vice President Al Gore was his likely Democratic opponent. Bush's mediocre college record was trumpeted by Gore backers as proof that the Republican candidate was a dummy. But in the spring of 2000, The Washington Post published Gore's college grades at Harvard. Like Kerry, he was hardly an honor student, either.
Nonetheless, Gore backers kept up the "dumb Bush" mantra. Gore himself tried to lend the impression during his first debate with Bush that he was the smart one, often sighing and shaking his head in disdain when Bush answered questions. Post-debate polling suggested that the strategy might have backfired. Many of those surveyed said Gore came off as too arrogant."
More at link:
USATODAY.com - Who is smarter, Kerry or Bush?
and what, you brought it up, there it is.
sheesh ...
personally, I don't give a rats ass.