<p>In fact, being a Bush can put one into great disadvantage.</p>
<p>I have faith in Yale. I may never ever get admitted to Yale (for undergrad or postgrad), but the process of striving to become a qualified candidate for Yale has made me a much better person. And for that, I am grateful.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree. I despise people who say that our president isn't qualified becasue he's a C student and whatnot. I mean, he is a C student at Yale. I simply retort, "You go to Yale and let's see how well you do."</p>
<p>Even telling someone to go to Yale today and see how they do doesn't really make the Bush comparison a good one. Probably every college in the country has had significant grade inflation since the 1960s. Lots more people were C students at Yale in the 1960s than they are today because grades were deflated. Competition for graduate school was much less rigorous so you didn't have that incentive to push really hard either. Not saying the president is a great intellectual, just putting it all into context.</p>
<p>And, just to provide more context, Al Gore was also a C student at Harvard at that time - not commenting on his possible presidential capabilities, but C was average at that time.</p>
<p>Just to provide more context, a decade earlier, Henry Kissinger graduated from Harvard with a nearly straight-A record. (nearly, the story goes, because of a B in Relational Logic).</p>
<p>Urban</a> Legends Reference Pages: Henty Kissinger Perfect Grades</p>
<p>Being a C student has nothing to do with it. Lots of brilliant people have very rocky records in terms of grades. </p>
<p>The Shrub, however, is not one of them. The problem with him is not so much that he is stupid--I think that he does have a certain innate cunning--but that he is willfully ignorant. For a person <em>of his background and age</em> to never have traveled abroad, for example, can only be described as bizarre.</p>