Al Gore, Brainiac
It's never easy to tell if Dana Milbank is serious, but he seems to mean it when he suggests in WaPo today that Al Gore is too smart to be President of a dumb country like America:
Imagine the Iowa hog farmer cracking open "Assault on Reason," and meeting Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Paine, John Kenneth Galbraith, Walter Lippmann, Johannes Gutenberg, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson and Marshall McLuhan — all before finishing the introduction.
Or maybe Milbank is just making fun of the Goracle's intellectual pretentiousness and the fawning idiocy of his servile fans. One is described as wearing a t-shirt depicting W as the "Worst President Ever" and quoted as slobbering,
I want the smartest guy around to be president. [… But] how do you convince people it's okay to feel inferior to their leaders?
A little background on Gore's intellectual achievements:
Gore's undergraduate transcript from Harvard is riddled with C's, including a C-minus in introductory economics, a D in one science course, and a C-plus in another. "In his sophomore year at Harvard," the Post reported, "Gore's grades were lower than any semester recorded on Bush's transcript from Yale." Moreover, Gore's graduate school record — consistently glossed over by the press — is nothing short of shameful. In 1971, Gore enrolled in Vanderbilt Divinity School where, according to Bill Turque, author of "Inventing Al Gore," he received F's in five of the eight classes he took over the course of three semesters. Not surprisingly, Gore did not receive a degree from the divinity school. Nor did Gore graduate from Vanderbilt Law School, where he enrolled for a brief time and received his fair share of C's. (Bush went on to earn an MBA from Harvard).
Historical name-dropping and $5 words dug out of a thesaurus do not make Gore intelligent — though he is certainly smarter than those he has suckered with the global warming hoax.
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