Ben Carson: Bungling Surgeon

I think it's fair to point out that guys like Kerry and W. went to ivies at a time when ivies didn't give every special snowflake an A+++ for showing up.

 

Why would he "own it" if it could cost him votes, or play into Republican caricatures of him?

 

Which is why Kerry couldn't get into an Ivy for law school.

 

It's also fair to point out that John Kerry is the only presidential candidate in recent memory to authorize the release of his own transcripts.

Mitt Romney - declined
John McCain - declined
Barack Obama - declined
John Kerry - released
Al Gore - leaked
George W. Bush - leaked

 

Maybe they should have written an essay that said they wanted a BB gun for Christmas instead.

 

That's pretty ridiculous. The opposition was already painting him as a radical leftist. Would the names of a couple classes he took in college really have cost him votes? Anyone who would give a crap about that was voting against him anyway.

I'm not buying your theory.

And you own it because it's, you know, your history. Everyone should own his history. Have we done things we regret? Sure. It's experience -- you learn from it and you move on. Maybe you took Leftist Radicalism 301 and came away realizing how insane it was. That's part of your background.

 

I doubt his mediocre Yale undergraduate GPA is what kept him out of an Ivy league law school. Admissions in the 1960s were no where near as competitive as they are today or even as they were in the 80s. Law schools were still not very integrated and very few women went. It was also, as Dick point out, at a time when a C grade was still average - not like today where average is likely to be a B+ or A-

 

Bullshit. Yes, it would have cost him votes, the same way that Romney's "47 percent" comment cost him votes. It reinforced to undecided voters the opposition's characterization of the candidate.

Oh, I'm sure that's how the Clinton and McCain campaigns would have treated it, too.

 

I doubt very seriously any class he could have taken in college or law school would have raised such an uproar among anyone but the Rush Limbaugh crowd.

 

Everyone should have to own his or her history, except Mitt Romney.

 

I don't know what this means, either.