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I think I remember something about Bush having a better GPA then Bill Clinton. What differnce did that make?
I think we should be more concerned about a V.P. candidate who has plagerized his speeches and writings. What good are high marks in college if you then turn around cheat off someone else's paper.
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quote:Originally posted by Lockman: I think I remember something about Bush having a better GPA then Bill Clinton. What differnce did that make?
I think we should be more concerned about a V.P. candidate who has plagerized his speeches and writings. What good are high marks in college if you then turn around cheat off someone else's paper.
Bush? hardly... i won't vote for any Clinton, but Bill was a Rhodes scholar... Bush was a "C" student.. and yeah, i voted for Bush in '00..but i wanted Mccain then..
as for the plagiarising? i think that was blown out of proportion...
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quote:Originally posted by Machiavelli: C Student? We have a C student for a Prez? Still want McCain Glass?
Obamas grades are one of his stronger points..
he appears to be a well organised person both in speech and management decisions. but we really only have his campaign to look at for his management skills...
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quote:Originally posted by Machiavelli: Yeah, but he wasn't Prez lol so that point is mute... but I like to think Gore is a little above in the IQ department then Bush...
i agree... his SAT's were 1355..
Bush's were 1200, but i have no doubt that he was trained to take them...
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It measures obedience and submissiveness rather than intellect.
At best it is a joke, at worst, it denies a decent college to some of the best and brightest and fills the rolls instead with adherents of what was believed fifty years ago.
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quote:Originally posted by Lockman: I think I remember something about Bush having a better GPA then Bill Clinton. What differnce did that make?
I think we should be more concerned about a V.P. candidate who has plagerized his speeches and writings. What good are high marks in college if you then turn around cheat off someone else's paper.
Bush? hardly... i won't vote for any Clinton, but Bill was a Rhodes scholar... Bush was a "C" student.. and yeah, i voted for Bush in '00..but i wanted Mccain then..
as for the plagiarising? i think that was blown out of proportion...
A Rhodes "scholar" is Just someone that did their graduate work in england. It's made to sound like something special but all you need is money to get into the school. Bush could have been a Rhodes "scholar" if he chose too.
And I find using someone elses words as your own to be very disturbing. I like joe biden but what original ideas can we believe he has?
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A Rhodes "scholar" is Just someone that did their graduate work in england. It's made to sound like something special but all you need is money to get into the school. Bush could have been a Rhodes "scholar" if he chose too.
please, i hate defending Clinton , but he was poor..
he didn't have dady's money to go..
and i beleive you should look up what a rhodes scholarship really is...
Bush might have been able to get one but not on merit...
my wife turned down a post-doc at Oxford (not the one in MS) because we could not afford the low pay...
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Why would you care about what someone's GPA was when they were 24 years old?
Palin's college experience: 5 schools in 6 years before graduating with journalism degree By Nicholas K. Geranios Associated Press Article Launched: 09/04/2008 03:23:46 PM PDT
SPOKANE, Wash. — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended five colleges in six years before graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987.
Federal privacy laws prohibit the schools from disclosing her grades, and none of the schools contacted by The Associated Press could say why she transferred. There was no indication any of them were contacted as part of the background investigation of Palin by presidential candidate John McCain's campaign.
"Our office was not contacted by anyone," said Tania Thompson, spokeswoman for the University of Idaho in Moscow.
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Note that dubya hid his college transcripts too and refused to answer question about his grades.
Now don't get me wrong. I think that is a protected right of any person, politician or not. Actually, Palin achieved the requirements for a degree and exactly how isn't a proper question.
My own record of grades isn't pretty. I started off doing quite poorly. Then, via work I did away from school, I earned a research fellowship in chemistry, which not only paid for my tuition and books, but provided money otherwise, so that for the first time ever, I knew that I could eat from day to day. That burden had been one that was way too much for me. From the point of getting that fellowship on, through two more years of the the BA, the MA, and the Ph.D. I made less than A in only only two courses.
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You really really don't know much about the academic world and you have proved it.
You are much much better quoting the RNC's talking points.
Who asked you? Go back to your Dumocrat readings.
You did, Lockstep, by the simple act of posting on a public forum. Or, are you too dim witted to understand that social reality.
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: A Rhodes "scholar" is Just someone that did their graduate work in england. It's made to sound like something special but all you need is money to get into the school. Bush could have been a Rhodes "scholar" if he chose too.
please, i hate defending Clinton , but he was poor..
he didn't have dady's money to go..
and i beleive you should look up what a rhodes scholarship really is...
Bush might have been able to get one but not on merit...
my wife turned down a post-doc at Oxford (not the one in MS) because we could not afford the low pay...
I should have looked up the rhodes scholarship, my bad. I still don't see the significance of a persons GPA , twenty years ago.
Palin may have gone to several colleges before getting her degree. Determination and a need to be a success are a good trait to have.
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: . I still don't see the significance of a persons GPA , twenty years ago.
Palin may have gone to several colleges before getting her degree. Determination and a need to be a success are a good trait to have.
excellent point...
now if you were going to hire an executive administrator for your co? would you ask or not?
cuz that's what we are doing..
only in politics do these questions get swept aside...
I would like to know what they've been doing for the last 20 years. I wouldn't ask much more than did you graduate from college. Graduating from college shows you have the staying power to complete something, not really much more than that.
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You probably have a better source of information from your own than I do. However, though I have never personally tried it, I hear (mostly from some coal miners I've known) it is most uncomfortable for human beings under rocks.
You might find it agreeable, I cant say, but if you are interested, I could possibly find a rock big enough and in such a state it could be dropped on you. Might I advise that you duck your head and avoid the inevitable questions about the impact of two such hard objects being solved with the fracturing of the rock.
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The real question does graduating from college mean you have the instincts to lead?
I've met people considered to be scholars or aleast consider themselves to be scholars, that I wouldn't follow across the street. Working as a college professor is an example of someone being an expert on what they've been taught but never appling it to the real world.
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You probably have a better source of information from your own than I do. However, though I have never personally tried it, I hear (mostly from some coal miners I've known) it is most uncomfortable for human beings under rocks.
You might find it agreeable, I cant say, but if you are interested, I could possibly find a rock big enough and in such a state it could be dropped on you. Might I advise that you duck your head and avoid the inevitable questions about the impact of two such hard objects being solved with the fracturing of the rock.
Go away please!
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