By- Suzie-Q @ 11:00 AM MST
Flashback: McCain Admits He’s Dumber Than Bush
Crooks and Liars
By: Bill W. on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 3:40 PM – PDT
Another great video catch by Jed:
When McCain was asked last year at a Candidates@Google event how his GPA compared to President Bush’s C average at Yale, McCain offered up some straight talk, my friends:
McCain: My GPA earned me fifth from the bottom of my class at the Naval Academy status. So, the GPA was based –since that was in the Coolidge administration it was a different measurement, but I can assure you in today’s standards it would be barely passing.
For good measure, Jed adds to that a clip from a January interview with Politico’s Mike Allen where McCain admits that he’s “an illiterate” who lacks the ability to utilize decades-old technology. At least Bush knows how to use “the Google.”
One note, if the McCain campaign is going to rely so heavily on his military service to make the case that he’s more fit to be commander-in-chief, why won’t the media actually take a look at his military record, especially considering he freely admits he placed 894th out of 899 in his class? Oh, that’s right. Apparently it’s a secret.
When John Kerry refused to release all of his military records before the election in 2004, which he subsequently did, the press relentlessly pushed him to do so. So why is McCain getting a complete pass? Are there any real journalists left in the U.S. who aren’t part of McCain’s base? Apparently not.
Are we proud yet America?
LMAO
Let’s see: McCain goes to a school that is typically one of the hardest to get in to. Many who don’t get into the Naval Academy are accepted at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, etc.
McCain, even though at the bottom of his class at graduation rises to be among the top 5% in performance as a naval officer as an O-6. He is Commanding Officer of the largest aviation command in the Navy.
Class standing from a service academy has very little relationship to later success in the service or fleet. Class standing at the service academies only uses academic performance as a part of determining class standing.
Many outstanding members of the service have ranked low in the class. Gen. George Pickett was the absolute bottom of his class at West Point.
yeah, and look what happened to Pickett at Gettysburg.