Well lookie here. "Mediocre" Bush failed to get into his in state law school after Yale

[Proud2BAmurkin]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072799.htm

After freshman year, he gathered up his Andover pals and lived with the same group in Davenport College for three years. A mediocre student, Bush majored in history, with grades that were apparently not good enough for admission to the University of Texas law school, which turned him down as an in-state applicant two years after he graduated. Bush has not given permission to either Andover or Yale to release his grades.

[williesgirl]

1. I'm surprised he got out of high school with a diploma. recommended

[On the Road]

2. People are Obtuse for Many Reasons

Some of them genetic. Some environmental. Some are unable to learn because they think they know everything and no one is going to tell them what to do. It's unfortunable someone from the last category was able to become president.

[reprobate]

19. Not "unfortunate". TREASON!

As far as I'm concerned the twisting of elections, barring citizens from righteously voting, creating riots at election supervisors offices, and the United States Extreme Court interfering in elections to appoint one candidate for no other reason than they had financial interests in that candidate winning is even worse than someone turning military secrets over to an enemy. TREASON!

And the Justices that enabled this addle brained loser to wind up in the White House MUST be impeached, then tried and convicted. Treason is a capital federal crime and carries a possible death penalty. While I am normally opposed by principle to the death penalty, in this case and considering the outcome and all the deaths of American and other lives sacrificed in the name of profit, I will make an exception. I'd be happy to sit on the jury that convicts them, although that would likely bar me from being the on to pull the lever on the trap door of the gallows.

Our nation DIED on the day they appointed Commander Bonkers. Someone must pay for that.

[madokie]

25. yes, so very true

Our nation DIED on the day they appointed Commander Bonkers. Someone must pay for that.

[hobbit709]

3. The reason he went to Yale in the first place

was his SAT scores weren't good enough to get him into UT in the first place(and UT at the time took just about anybody). Being a legacy at Yale meant he didn't have to pass the even more stringent entrance exams.

[tbyg52]

21. Mmmmm Hmmmm. Money rules. nt

[acmavm]

4. If he's as smart as he keeps telling us he is he needs to release

his grades.

We could all use a good laugh. Or maybe it would be a good cry.

[wilt the stilt]

6. hey, just wait a minute

he reads 60 books a year. Superman 1-60

[Giant Robot]

9. As a comic book geek, I don't think he could do that

Following words and pictures requires an integration that speaks to higher order cognitive processes. As it stands, I doubt he could do more than smile like a chimp at the pretty colors.

[KamaAina]

20. They're all over the Web

http://www.americanpolitics.com/bushtranscript.html

it isn't pretty: straight "gentleman's C's". :dunce:

[DrDan]

5. I had forgotten about this - the clapping

He was the head football cheerleader his senior year, a member of his class rock-and-roll band, the Torqueys – not singing or playing an instrument but clapping – and organizer of the school's stickball league.

hahahahaha

[bunkerbuster1]

10. That's just sad.

A "clapper?"

Was he rhythm or lead clapper?

[DrDan]

17. I am sure he was a soloist . . .

I can't see him playing second-clapper to anyone

[corkhead]

7. Yale should be ashamed they let him in and that they have institutionalized admissions nepotism

a picture of him and his entire cabinet should be next to the Wikipedia definition of "Peter Principle"

[DrDan]

8. so he was a Yale graduate and had a Texas congressman for a father

and could not get into UT law school.

Those Yale grades must have been quite revealing.

[onenote]

11. we already know chimpy's an idiot. Is there some reason for posting a 1999 story?

I mean, at this point, who cares whether he did or didn't get into law school. For more than six years he has demonstrated, on the most public stage available to anyone in the world, that he's a dunce.

[The Stranger]

13. Of course there is a reason for posting it -- so people will know about it.

:wtf:

[onenote]

14. Okay, although I'm still not sure why it matters

As I said, the fact that he's an idiot is out there for everyone to see. I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think he's an idiot already is going to care that he didn't get into law school. And since he's not running for election I still don't see the point.

I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with posting the info, just trying to understand why it matters at this point.

[Jackpine Radical]

26. Right. This post is too trivial for GD, taking up space that could otherwise

be devoted to the meaningless poll du jour or the latest thing Fucker Carlson said or the latest public display of Tommy Thompson's foot-in-mouth disease or something meaningful like that.

Really, I mean DU is far too exalted a forum to be sullied with the likes of this Bush-bashing thread. Couldn't we at least bash Hillary?

[progressoid]

12. Nuh uh. I heard Sean say that he had better grades than Kerry so there

nya nya nya

[Jim__]

15. He may not have had good grades, but he has a "great" pedigree.

Look where it's got him. :sarcasm:

[Proud2BAmurkin]

16. Even though RePUKES claim they don't believe in Darwinism

they're all about pedigree. Hypocrites as usual

[DFW]

18. I can well imagine he won't allow Andover to release his grades

I graduated from there 5 years or so after he did, so I might
well have had some of the same teachers. It was no breeze, and
although I'm no genius, I think I would dare to match my academic
prowess against the Smirk and come out ahead.

By the way. I was a first year senior, and I hated the place!

[PA Democrat]

22. I always wonder of his rejection from UT law school is part of the reason he has such disdain for

the rule of law.

[Bridget Burke]

23. I heard his LSAT or GRE scores were the problem at UT.

From Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush--by Molly Ivins & Lou Dubose:

It's possible Bush's dislike of lawyers stems from the fact that he was rejected by the University of Texas Law School as a young man; this proves, as we have always suspected, that UT has higher standards than Harvard.

Page Keeton, then dean of the University of Texas Law School, wrote one of the people who had supported Bush's application: "I am sure young Mr. Bush has all the many amiable qualities you describe, and so will find a place at one of many fine institutions around the country. But not at the University of Texas."

Of course, Bush never made it into any law school. He went to Harvard for an MBA.

[Hubert Flottz]

24. Pay your fee get your C Bush!

He's still failing.