Kodiak, let me see if I understand your response:
Debating star at Yale? They have them every year, lemme tell you, and everyone who graduates from the ivies who was on the debate team will tell you what a star he/she was.
Interpretation <Big deal, being on the debating team at Yale doesn't impress you and he may be lying about that too.>
I'll just let your other encomiums for Vietnam's Audie Murphy go unchallenged, as I wish to give you the last word (as many as you like) on the subject. I still can't figure out why JK didn't get the medal of honor, though . .
Interpretation <When someone I don't like picks up wounds, gets recognized for valor and puts his life on the line for his country, I ask what more could he have done and can he "without a doubt" prove it. Cause after all, that stuff doesn't mean much to me.>
shall we assume that he was about a grade inflated B+ student? And, coming out of Yale, even if he wanted to stay in the Northeast area, ya gotta figure he didn't make it into Harvard, Yale, Penn, Columbia, NYU, Cornell, Georgetown, or even Boston University. Ended up at Boston College for law school.
Interpretation <So Ed's much to impressed with that "ivies debater" stuff but then how smart could he be if he couldn't get into one of the "ivie" law schools. See-I can take either side of the debate-that proves how flexible my mind is.>
But I know, in the hagiography that accompanies all Democratic candidates, they are all brilliant students (the Kennedys were notoriously poor students at Harvard, none made it into the Law School there, no matter how much $$ the family had, Teddy was thrown out ("rusticated") for a year for cheating while an undergrad), and every single Republican who has held high office has been characterized as stupid or, in the rare case (which, see, Nixon), smart but devious. It's just part of the scenery.
(The truth is, one of the most intelligent presidents we had, on pure academic achievement, was Gerald Ford: football star at Michigan AND Yale Law school, but he was constantly lampooned as "dim" by the press, as was Eisenhower, Reagan, Bush I and of course Bush II.)
Interpretation <This has nothing to do with Ed's answer to the quetion I asked of why he'd say that Kerry's antiwar stance does not explain his political success. It does, however, give me the opportunity to lampoon that caricature from the left; Kennedy, and point out one of my favorite themes concerning the overwhelming injustice done to right thinking heroes.>
Now there seem to be a lot of red herrings in that mess but I think I've got it right. Not that you do, however. Ed
PS, By the way, the reason for "Boston College" law admittance given in the Brinkley book is that after losing the election Kerry was in the position of applying late. Yale and most other law school's application procedures were closed; BCs wasn't.
In any event, I'm sure that there are other bright people that didn't get into Yale law, however. It is, and probably was, the most difficult law school admission at that time. I, personally, have the honor of having my Yale Law School application rejected at about the same time that Kerry started law school. How about you? Did have the inclination, the grades or the LSAT scores to apply to Yale? In other words, I wouldn't hold that against him too heavily. |
