What an ignorant statement.

 

I think it is called a "gentlemens C" ... which means they just push you through giving you a C..... so he actually average probably would have been much lower if they didn't just push him through and collect their annual tuition.

 

you mean this applies to Yale too, right?

 

Sheesh, it's just an honorary degree for giving a commencement speech. . . everyone gets one when they do that.

Here's a great commencement speech given this year, by Jon Stewart '84, at my alma matter (it mentions the validity of an honorary degree):

http://web.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=3650

Thank you Mr. President, I had forgotten how crushingly dull these ceremonies are. Thank you.

My best to the choir. I have to say, that song never grows old for me. Whenever I hear that song, it reminds me of nothing.

I am honored to be here, I do have a confession to make before we get going that I should explain very quickly. When I am not on television, this is actually how I dress. I apologize, but there

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mingster

 

Bush was a Yalie, that's where all of the neoconservatives came from.

 

Like John Kerry?

 

BTW, it's no coincidence that the Heinz family is related to Zbigniew Brzezinski...

 

Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor and (the late) Republican Senator John Heinz??

 

Close, keep trying. Some of Carter's cabinet were ex-Trotskyists too; they renounced their ideals and came around to Straussism.