(Thick) Skull and Bones
This article in the Boston Globe compares the Yale academic records of John Kerry and George W. Bush, and they're nearly identical.
Neither of the two were "A" students by any means, but I would point out that they attended an Ivy League school at a time when such institutions were truly the pinnacle of academic challenge in America; a "C" average in such schools at that time was nothing to sneeze at. Today, of course, the Ivy League universities--like nearly every other post-secondary school in the country--have become nothing more than sheepskin factories which rubber-stamp students' egos in exchange for copious amounts of cash, which they need to pay the tenures they handed out like candy in the 1970's and early '80's.
My issue with the two candidates was never about their intelligence; both possess an acceptable I.Q. for a leader. Rather, I was more concerned about issues of honor and loyalty. One of them came up very short in that department.
Neither of the two were "A" students by any means, but I would point out that they attended an Ivy League school at a time when such institutions were truly the pinnacle of academic challenge in America; a "C" average in such schools at that time was nothing to sneeze at. Today, of course, the Ivy League universities--like nearly every other post-secondary school in the country--have become nothing more than sheepskin factories which rubber-stamp students' egos in exchange for copious amounts of cash, which they need to pay the tenures they handed out like candy in the 1970's and early '80's.
My issue with the two candidates was never about their intelligence; both possess an acceptable I.Q. for a leader. Rather, I was more concerned about issues of honor and loyalty. One of them came up very short in that department.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 16:53
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For me, it was just interesting how so many on the Left went gaga over how "intellectual" Kerry was as compared to Bush. Although, as has been said, 'Some people presume a person is highly intelligent if they can't understand what that person is saying." A sad but true statement from what I've observed among the "activist class". Wear a beat-up army surplus jacket (oh the irony), babble on incomprehensibly but forcefully and drop in the word proletariate and dialectic every few sentences and you're an "intellectual." And as P.J. O'Rourke once observed, in college it was an easy way to get laid. ;)
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