since when are grades an implication of intelligence??? if that was the case, i'd be cruising with a 3.8 right now. that being said, i think both guys are dumb, but no way is kerry dumber than Bush. Bush is borderline r****ded.
Borderline r****ded. Right. I'm not saying the man is a genius but don't confuse a lack of eloquence with a lack of intelligence. There are plenty of people who are extremely intelligent but sound otherwise when put in a speaking situation.
His policies are borderline r****ded. I'd rather assume he's an idiot than a genius manipulator of public trust.
Grades don't really mean much, and as these examples show, their significance for your future success in life is being overestimated.
But this would never have been an issue if the left wasn't constantly blasting Bush for a lack of intelligence. Personally, I wouldn't consider either man stupid. There's a reason they rose up through their parties' ranks and were vying for the single most powerful position on Earth. Kerry certainly looks to be more well-read than Bush, but that doesn't necessarily translate into him being better for the job. He just didn't seem to get it, and the voters thought so too. (countdown until "the voters were the ones who didn't get it!": 10... 9...)
I wasn't too excited about Kerry - sorta had to pick the "lesser of the two evils", given the choices forced upon us. But honestly what kind of reactions do you expect when chase put out a thread bashing Kerry seven months after the election? Who was Kerry's rival, Ralph Nader?
I thought it was an interesting thread. Because, given the c-student-at-Yale label that Bush wore so well...I'd assumed Kerry had done much better. Interesting.....no more. What did I expect???? Well, pretty much what we saw. Everyone taking sides and drumming up the usual sound-bites. You'd have thought the Bush bashers would have found it a little surprising that Kerry did so poorly in his first three years. Not enough to embrace Georgie...but interesting none the less.
Actually wnes, if you read my original post it wasn't to bash Kerry. It was to bash people who tried to use Bush's grades as an arguement against him. I think it's ironic (and funny) now that Kerry's grades have come out as being worse than Bush's.
Yes your carefully chosen wording (in your original post) was duly noticed. But even if I wasn't enthusiastic about Kerry, I couldn't help flinging something back at Bush supporters when their love affair with the man become annoying. Isn't this D&D all about?
The fun part about Bush's grade isn't that he is a C student, it is he got into Harvard MBA with that grade! How many C student does Harvard MBA take a year?
The funny part about this and the only thing even bordering on a real issue(someone's grades in college aren't a real issue no matter who made them) is the release of Kerry's military records and the egg on the face on the swift vets group that was dishonest. It is hilarious that so many of the members of that group are now officially on record as having praised, and comendated Kerry for his service at the time. I think most thinking people realized their lack of legitimacy early on, but there were plenty of people who either weren't thinking, or wanted to ignore the evidence exposing their claims as other than factual. I'm glad this added one more piece of evidence to debunk their trash campaign motivated by personal dislike and not anything factual.
Why is this hilarious? Many of these same people at the time were on record of having done so back then already too. But it didn't matter then, people did what they had to do , regardless of anything else, you had junior G-men around the country poring over maps of the Mekong in pursuit of liberty, -- it' s not like it mattered what anybody said, these same people would have done so regardless to stop various scourges, real and imagined.
