It turns out that John Kerry and George W. Bush, Yale students of the mid-Sixties, were both solid C students

National Review, July 4, 2005

It turns out that John Kerry and George W. Bush, Yale students of the mid-Sixties, were both solid C students. Kerry, class of '66, had a cumulative average of 76; Bush, class of '68, averaged about 77 (Yale switched to non-numerical grading in Bush's senior year, which explains the "about"). It turns out that John Kerry and George W.

Bush, Yale students of the mid-Sixties, were both solid C students. Kerry, class of '66, had a cumulative average of 76; Bush, class of '68, averaged about 77 (Yale switched to non-numerical grading in Bush's senior year, which explains the "about"). The cream of our MSM, graduates of fancy schools all, no doubt smile inwardly at their superiority, even to the candidate they preferred. Don't smile too much: Historian Gaddis Smith, who taught both Bush and Kerry, points out that post-Sixties grade inflation would boost their scores by at least ten points. And who says that testing well is the most important qualification for the White House? Aslew of smart but troubled presidents, from John Adams to Richard Nixon, can answer that one. We are debating these questions now, of course, because Kerry would not release his Navy records, and hence his college transcript, before America voted (he still hasn't released all his Navy records). The contrast between his alleged intelligence and Bush's supposed dumbness was too important to be complicated by facts. If Kerry wrote college papers that way, he's lucky he got Cs and Ds.