Now wait a minute, isn't he a really smart guy?

So all during the election all we heard was how smart John Kerry is. That his IQ was so much higher than President Bush's, which turned out to not be true anyway. The media delighted in reporting what an intellectual lightweight the President was by pointing out every mangled sentence he spoke and at the same time reminding us how high above it all John Kerry was.

And so now Kerry has finally released the rest of his records, well almost all of them, and we come to find out this;

The transcript shows that Kerry's freshman-year average was 71. He scored a 61 in geology, a 63 and 68 in two history classes, and a 69 in political science. His top score was a 79, in another political science course. Another of his strongest efforts, a 77, came in French class

That's four D's for those not in the know...

And then there's this tid-bit;

In 1999, The New Yorker published a transcript indicating that Bush had received a cumulative score of 77 for his first three years at Yale and a roughly similar average under a non-numerical rating system during his senior year.

Kerry, who graduated two years before Bush, got a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy when he was applying for officer training school. He received four D's in his freshman year out of 10 courses, but improved his average in later years.

And finally there is this explanation as to why Kerry's grades were so bad. I knew there had to be a good reason;

Gaddis Smith, a retired Yale history professor who taught both Kerry and Bush, said in a telephone interview that he vividly remembers Kerry as a student during the 1964-1965 school year, when Kerry would have been a junior. However, Smith said he doesn't have a specific memory about Bush.

Based on what Smith recalls teaching that year, Kerry scored a 71 and 79 in two of Smith's courses. When Smith was told those scores, he responded: ''Uh, oh. I thought he was good student. Those aren't very good grades." To put the grades in perspective, Smith said that he had a well-earned reputation for being tough, and noted that such grades would probably be about 10 points higher in a similar class today because of the impact of what he called ''grade inflation.",

Oh...grade inflation, that's it, that's the ticket!

So Kerry grades were really good before they were really bad...