Kerry Failed to Make Bush's Grade

President George Bush's academic record was almost identical to Senator John Kerry's at university, despite the depiction of Kerry as the more intellectual during the 2004 presidential campaign.

Records released to the Boston Globe show that Kerry's grades at Yale University averaged 76, while Bush, who also attended Yale, averaged 77.

Under the grade system at the time, both marks equate to a C. Kerry's score seems to have been dragged down during his first year, when he got four Ds out of 10 results.

However in subsequent years, his marks improved dramatically and, in the final year, he averaged 81 (a B grade).

Kerry has previously admitted that he spent more of his energies on learning to fly than studying and told the Boston Globe that, "I always told my dad that D stood for distinction."

Bush's results appear to counter the image portrayed of him in the media as being intellectually inferior. Cartoon sketches, films and books like Stupid White Men, by Michael Moore, have all picked on his supposed dimness, pointing to his at times slow speaking style and use of mid-American vernacular.