I understand that Gore had fairly poor grades at times as well and I've heard or heard of pretty stupid statements from him.
Read this interview (yes the whole thing) if you really want an accurate understanding of the intellectual qualities of Al Gore.
EXCERPT:
It's all true: In person, he is unbelievably stiff. His clothes are too tight. He is a little too perfect -- too monotonously didactic, too insistently righteous -- to be immediately likable. But in conversation, Al Gore is also thoughtful, informed, inquisitive, and technologically literate. He is sincerely interested in how business, globalization, and the Internet are changing the world. He is capable of moments of genuinely inspired synthesis, as when he told us that, "the American democratic system was an early political version of Napster."
For while the vice president can be punishingly specific about public policy -- see his 191-page economic plan, or his proposed tax reform -- during our two lengthy interviews he was unapologetically intellectual. His answers to our questions were discursive and abstract. To explain his ideas, he spoke not just in paragraphs, but in entire chapters. He drew inspiration from management theory, computer architecture, and thermodynamics.
redherring.com
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You may be a bit surprised...
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