Al Gore flunked out of Yale according to Weldon (R) on Washington Journal

[Viva_La_Revolution]

and it's a lie.

However, he did flunk out of Vanderbilt Divinity school. (Which just makes my estimation of his intelligence rise.)

edit for details:

He took the religious studies courses while also working full time as a journalist at the Nashville Tennessean, and after getting off to a strong start with an A-minus in Ethics, he failed to complete any of the three courses he took in the fall of 1971, and those incompletes eventually lapsed into F's. He returned for another semester in the spring of 1972, when two more incompletes turned into F's. Two years later, he enrolled in law school and spent three semesters there taking heavy course loads while still working at the newspaper. He performed satisfactorily, with a high grade of 81 in Legal Writing and a low grade of 69 in Civil Procedures II. Partway through the spring semester in 1976, he decided to run for an open seat in Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District. His mother, Pauline Gore, herself a lawyer, tried to persuade him to remain in school while running, but he withdrew, turning away for good from the academic life, while beginning a political career in which he increasingly took on the characteristics of a scholar.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A37397-2000Mar18

[av8rdave]

1. Al has probably had more lied told about him than nearly anybody

[Cha]

25. Does that mean the liars

fear Al Gore the most of anyone else they continously lie about?

[av8rdave]

27. That's certainly what I believe!

[SteppingRazor]

2. Is that Florida congressman Weldon?

And if so, got a link or anything?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL),

He was on WJ this morning, decrying the use of stem cells to save the lives of the already-born.
http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp?Cat=Series&Code=WJE&ShowVidNum=9&Rot_Cat_CD=WJ&Rot_HT=206&Rot_WD=&ShowVidDays=100&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=30#

updated the OP with a link to Al's history... :)

[SteppingRazor]

10. Thanks!

Any excuse to flog the shit out of my state's idiot representatives! :evilgrin:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

12. glad to help

:evilgrin:

[MH1]

14. There is no longer a PA congressman Weldon...

Thanks to Joe Sestak and the fine people of the 7th district of Pennsylvania.

:evilgrin:

Just in case anyone was wondering.

[PRETZEL]

17. you're welcome

I was more than glad to do my part.:patriot:

[MH1]

20. Actually, I also should thank many more people too...

I know that Sestak received support, financial and otherwise, from many folks outside PA-7.

So thank you all!!!

:patriot: :toast:

[hobbit709]

3. Wonder what Weldon flunked out of

At the least, he wouldn't get in line when the brains were passed out.

[onenote]

23. actually, Weldon graduated from medical school

Which makes his stupidity even harder to figure out.

[elehhhhna]

Next: "Al Gore was too stoopid to get out of going to Viet Nam."

[jerryme1]

16. Or better yet, ala Kerry, "Gore went to vietnam because he was already considering

running for president.

[porphyrian]

4. Flunking and graduating aren't measures of intelligence, anyway.

Average people graduate all the time simply by working very hard and anyone can flunk just by not doing the required work for whatever reason. Higher education is a business before anything else, and libraries contain most, if not all, of the information the colleges make you pay for.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. I know

I dropped out of HS, was flunking most classes anyway.
and my IQ is apparently between 125 and 130.

[porphyrian]

8. Exactly. A lot of my friends have similar stories.

I just hate it when some people treat level of education as equivalent to intelligence, which I'm sure you've encountered as well.

[WinkyDink]

6. What was this jerk's point? Hey, Weldon, newsflash! Gore WON in 2000!

Stuff THAT up your SAT's.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. He was replying to a caller who said

#1 - that these pro-life people make her sick, they have no concern for all the people we are killing in Iraq

and

#2 - Bush is an idiot, who's IQ test shows he's only 20 points above Moron.

:rofl:
she was my favorite caller this morning. :)

[no_hypocrisy]

11. I can understand Gore not continuing with Vanderbilt Divinity School.

Al Gore utilizes reason and that skill is not necessary to successfully complete religion courses. (All you need is a memory and the ability to repeat what you've read or been told.)

He made the correct career choice IMO.

[jwirr]

15. It is clear that his interest did not lie in the ministry. The only wrong

here is that he did not opt out formally so the grades merely reflected his disinterest. As far as intelligence: many of our founding fathers were self taught or learned from tutors. They read books to learn on a wide variety of subjects but they were also excellent observers of the world around them. I think that describes Al Gore to a tee.

[EVDebs]

13. And GWBush passed his Harvard MBS course with straight A's ?

History is a harsh judge.

[blueworld]

18. Of course Bush & the GOP are a regular Ivy-League brain trust n/t

[peacetalksforall]

19. Do Democrats latch on to a lie and repeat it for a decade?

Do Democrats lie as blatantly as Weldon and many, many other callers and guests on WJ and all the other programs as well as print?

The Republican lie machine revved up antique Gore lies.

Call 'em on it.

What is the site that lists the lies followed by the truth?

[karynnj]

21. Cheney did flunk out of Yale though

[eppur_se_muova]

24. Gore, Cheney -- everyone gets those two mixed up! nt

:bullshitsarcasm:

[onenote]

22. Al Gore didn't even go to Yale

He went to Harvard for his undergraduate degree (graduating cum laude in 1969).

[johnaries]

26. He graduated from Harvard WITH HONORS. nt