Atleast Edwards got into Law School

[Broward]

I read somewhere (can't remember where) that Bush got rejected from U. of Texas Law School. Has anyone else heard this?

[k in IA]

1. Yes, so instead he went to get a masters in business.

[MikeG]

2. Freeper reply: You think you're so smart. You know what?

You're not so smart.

(Actual text would have misspelled words)

[Bluebear]

3. "You think your so smart.."

[MikeG]

7. Don't give me none of that fancy book learnin'

[Octafish]

The Little Turd from Crawford wanted to stay the heck out of Vietnam, too.

George W. Bush, the drunken coke-whore on the right, during his Harvard Business School years. (Harvard Yearbook)

At Height of Vietnam, Bush Picks Guard

By George Lardner Jr. and Lois Romano
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 28, 1999; Page A1


EXCERPT...

Bush had scored only 25 percent on a "pilot aptitude" test, the lowest acceptable grade. But his father was then a congressman from Houston, and the commanders of the Texas Guard clearly had an appreciation of politics.

SNIP...

Bush's father went on to run for senator in 1970 against Lloyd Bentsen Jr. – a prominent Texas Democrat whose own son had been placed in the same Texas Guard unit by the same Col. Staudt around the same time as Bush. On Election Day, before the polls closed, Guard commanders nominated both George W. Bush and Lloyd Bentsen III for promotion to first lieutenant – even as the elder Bentsen was defeating the elder Bush.

SNIP...

Grabbing a Slot In the National Guard

Bush learned that there were pilot openings in the Texas Air National Guard during Christmas vacation of his senior year at Yale, when he called Staudt, the commander of the 147th Fighter Group, and, he said, "found out what it took to apply."

"He recalls hearing from friends while he was home over the Christmas break that the Guard was looking for pilots and that Colonel Staudt was the person to contact," said his communications director, Karen Hughes. She said Bush did not recall who those friends were.

CONTINUED...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072899.htm

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Any he didn't spend the first 40 years of his life

drinking and snorting cocaine.

[kikiek]

5. He also did so on his own merits instead of daddy's connections.

He is wealthy, but he earned his money. He didn't have a dad that was vice president and president which created opportunity for him to find investors who all lost money while he made it. He didn't use insider trading to make a lot of money and need daddy's SEC to clear him of charges of it. Yah there are a lot of differences between Bush and Edwards. We could go on and on.

[AspenRose]

6. Does anyone know if Edwards was the first in his family (or not)

to attend college?

It drives me nuts to hear talk about "this rich liberal lawyer" Edwards when he could conceively be (I don't know for sure - someone speak up) the first or second generation in his family to attend college and EARN every single dime he worked for....

[geniph]

8. According to his bio on the Kerry site

Edwards was indeed the first in his family to graduate college. Incidentally, Elizabeth Edwards also graduated from law school.

Here's what the University of Texas Law School had to say about George W. Bush: "I am sure there is a place for young George Bush somewhere. However, in light of his grades on the LSAT exams, that place is not the School of Law at the University of Texas.")

[AspenRose]

9. Hook 'em Horns! Probably the ONLY time this Texas Aggie

will agree with that statement.

Edited to reflect current events:
I am sure there is a place for George somewhere. However, in light of the current administration, that place is NOT the White House!

[Gothmog]

10. Bush was unable to get into St. John's School here in Houston

St. John's is the strongest school academically in Houston and may be the strongest high school in the state of the Texas. This year's senior class had 785 of the class qualify as National Merit semi-finalist or National Merit Commended Students.

Bush applied to get into St. John's School for High School and was rejected. Last year, the dean of admissions for Yale was asked at college admission event if she knew about Bush being rejected by St. John's School and she told the audience that she had been teased about this before the conference. She also stated that legacies are given far less preference today compared to when Bush was admitted (I took this as a slap at Bush).