Only Americans are dumb enough to think it's an Insult to say Kerry

[Egalitarian Zetetic]

seems european. Lets see educated, cosmopolitan, urbane yep those are european qualities. While bush is incoherrant, overly macho except when it comes down to the real battle. I love hearing people say that. It reminds me of those days back in elementry where something was wrong with the A students. By the way did you hear bush bragging about being a c student in a speech to grads?

[dorktv]

1. You know...grades really are not reflective of a person's ability.

I know very bright people (such as myself) who get crappy grades because frankly they have other priorities and stupid people who get good grades because they suck up.

[Egalitarian Zetetic]

2. I was always an average student but he brags about...

it, in the manner of "look i slacked off and i'm the president"

[Tims]

6. Someone I would want to be president

I would want to have their performance in college to be a high priority, especially if that person can't show a long record of success and intelligent actions to offset a youthful aversion study. Since Bush is the ultimate "suck-up" with family connections and still got poor grades pretty much says he simply wasn't up to the task. The fact is, most of our presidents have been excellent students, often the top of their class.

Bush seems like such a slow learner that I even question his SAT scores. At the time he entered Yale most ivy league schools required a minimum of 1200 on the SAT to even be considered for admission. The fact that he scored just over that seems somewhat suspicious to me. I scored in the low 1200's (took the test only a couple of years after Bush) and I would hate to think that our academic qualifications were roughly equal. Even with coaching and the benefits of one of the nation's best prep schools, he cannot mask his lack of verbal skills and I can't believe he would be capable scoring much higher than 400 on the verbal portion of the exam which would mean he would have to have scored a perfect 800 on the math portion (also highly unlikely) to break 1200.

When I took the test and when Bush supposedly took his test, there were no photo ID's. The public schools didn't even issue ID's. Even driver's licenses only gave a printed age, height, hair and eye color. It would have been very easy to have someone else take your examine for you since a photo ID was not required. His SAT score is the only thing from his entire academic record that indicates he was above average in his abilities. My feeling is he probably bought the score from one of his Andover classmates willing to take the test again using Bush's ID.

[Rowdyboy]

3. Ridiculous as that is, I've seem worse...

Here in Mississippi, in the governor's race in 1987, one of the Republican charges against Gov Mabus that he was a graduate of Harvard. That's right, he was a "Harvard-educated elitist!" Total bullshit, still he only lasted one term before being defeated in 1991 by a crude, loud mouth construction company owner-Kirk Fordice

[boxster]

4. Ethnocentrism at its best.

Or worst, that is.

People in this country are so enamored with themselves. And, many of them buy the BS about the rest of the world being second-rate.

Bush and his cronies have taken elitism and ethnocentrism to heights no one could have ever imagined, alienating the rest of the world in the process. Unfortunately, it's an indicator of the direction our society is heading.

Someone should explain to Bush and his Administration that it's impossible to rise above other people when your head is stuck up your ass.

[CBHagman]

5. Besides, where the hell do they think our forebears came from?

If you count all the mixed-race people in this country, plus the whites, most of us have European ancestors. This is an insult? Who has a problem with looking European. Sixty percent or so of us look European!

[Dirk39]

7. Kerry's wife replied:

when some republicans "insulted" Kerry to look french: Some members of the current administration don't even speak french. At least I did read this in a book about Kerry, published in Germany.
(Not to long ago, every educated human being in Europe had to speak french)

Hello from Germany,
Dirk