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Except he didn't. They were both mediocre, and they went to different schools. Gore had clearly better SATs, but neither of them had clearly better grades in college. Source: http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html

During a speech / Q&A, someone once asked Gore if he thought Bush 43 was 'stupid' / dumb / pick-a-synonym. Gore said "certainly not", but did describe him as "incurious":

I guess what surprises me most is his incuriosity. That's a real mystery to me because he's clearly a smart man. He has a different kind of intelligence, as everybody does. There's so many varieties of intelligence. He's clearly a smart man, but it is a puzzle that he would ask no questions about important matters.

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2006/06/get-your-gore-on.html

  This seems to be corroborated by other anecdotes:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/3798

I think the one fatal flaw that Bush 43 had was that he trusted those around him too much, and didn't look into matters himself enough. If he had, he would probably had found that there were a lot of things being done in his name and he may not have liked.

Except he didn't. They were both mediocre, and they went to different schools. Gore had clearly better SATs, but neither of them had clearly better grades in college. Source: http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html

Geez, they let just anyone in, don't they?

No, they seems to be pretty good a separating the wheat from the chaff.

Speaking of innocent mistakes, here's the goddamn link

Anyway, sixteen points == no real difference.

He got a 1206 on the sat, though that doesn't make him intelligent, it is a bit of evidence. Meanwhile he got crappy grades, but it was Yale. look here

I did a little search on Google and found
this page:

http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.htm l

indeed, Bush scored a 1206. Higher than
many many of the people calling him an idiot's
scores.

I just get mad when someone who scores very
high on their testing or in school holds
their nose up and looks down on other people
and treat other people with irrelevance or
patronizes them. I am mad at the millions
of people who scored lower than Bush
who call him an idiot.

That said I hope people find more constructive
ways to criticize this man so we can get him
the heck out of the office of the President
of our United States.

My point was simply that relying on Ann Coulter for any kind of accurate information is folly.

Gore's and Bush's transcripts were similar; neither did especially well, and Bush certainly didn't "blow Gore out of the water". The story is here.

i found a site http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.htm l that explains their scores. big surprise al gore wins handsup.

Bush/Gore SAT scores

um...no....

Bush/Gore SAT scores

get your facts straight loser...

For combined scores Bush got a 1206 (not a 660) and Gore a 1355. Bush was in the 84th percentile. Not fantastic, but not bad. Here's more scores. Of course people with low SATS go on to do great in college and some with high ones do poorly. But ripping on Bush for getting into a good college given his High School performance really applies to Gore as well. (His grades in High School weren't exemplary either) Both got into ivy league schools because they were the sons of famous politicians. No doubt. But it applies equally to both.

Though I would normally abbreviate this kind of thing, Oh My Fucking God, What The Fuck are you talking about? Since when does the school you graduate from mean *ANYTHING* about how smart or capable you are? By the same token, since when does SAT scores or grades have anything to with how smart or capable you are? But just for the sake of argument, I would say that having good grades *probably* indicates smarts and capability. For this reason, check this link. I'll paste it too:

Bush

SAT Verbal Score
Verbal 566 (of 800)
Math 640 (of 800)

Undergraduate Transcript

73 (of 100) in PS14a
71 (of 100) in PS13b
Pass in PS48

Look, I'll be the first to admit that I did *very* poorly in college, but I still got straight A's in Computer Science, because it was a class that I was interested in and was actually good at anyway.

I'll put it this way, do you really want your country run by a man who got a C- average in politics?