"C" students

The conventional wisdom last fall was that John Kerry was a better, more serious student in college and, if elected, he would bring more intellectual horsepower to the job. Turns out, the evidence (which Kerry refused to release during the campaign) shows that is not true.

BOSTON (AP) - Sen. John F. Kerry's grade average at Yale University was virtually identical to President Bush's record there, despite repeated portrayals of Kerry as the more intellectual candidate during the 2004 presidential campaign.

Kerry had a cumulative average of 76 and got four Ds his freshman year - in geology, two history courses and political science, The Boston Globe reported Tuesday. . .

In 1999, The New Yorker magazine published a transcript showing Bush had a cumulative grade average of 77 his first three years at Yale, and a similar average under a non-numerical rating system his senior year.