George W. Bush wasn’t the best college student around. But at least he’s been up front about his college record, unlike Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Sarah Palin. John McCain, on the other hand, has been quite upfront about the fact that he was ranked 894 out of 899 in the Naval Academy.
In fact, George W. Bush has openly released his Yale University undergraduate transcript. As you can see, Bush truly was a solid C student. He never got an A in anything the entire time that he was in college (although he never got a D or an F either). Bush almost got As in history and anthropology, and earned a high pass in Japanese, of all things. However, he received a 71 and a 73 respectively in his two political science and government classes. His lowest grade was in sociology — a 70.
Bush earned a 1206 on the SATs, which is pretty good. These days, though, a 1200 won’t get you anywhere near Yale, so I wonder how true that was back then, and how much Bush’s father’s connections had to do with getting him in.
posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Naomi
Tags: college record, george w bush, transcripts, yale
Posted in Celebrities, Politics | 3 Comments »
November 11th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Al Gore and Obama graduated from Harvard with honors. Gore was active with providing internet access to the country and won himself a shared Nobel prize for his work towards a world summit on global warming. Obama was a grassroots community organizer who became President of the Harvard Law review. In contrast W was proud of his low grades and covered up all questions about his undocumented lackluster ROTC record and his father’s monetary donations to his alma maters.
As I’ve been saying for 9 years, college delinquent G.W. Bush would get the U.S. embroiled in wars on multiple fronts like Napolean and set the country on a path to an Orwellian hell with global warming thrown in. However, I forgot that W was also a spendthrift neocon nazi, and would ruin Wall Street with Ayn Rand-style corporate elitism causing a global financial meltdown.
Obama met with Bush and his wife socially yesterday at the White House (For the final time, at the Bushs’ insistence.) In a Texas exit poll last Tuesday 23% of the big oil state’s residents still insisted that Obama was a moslem terrorist. I know what I would have said to Bush if I were Obama. “Get your shiite outta my house!” [Note to GOP flaggers: 'shiite' in this context means a muslim extremist.]
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