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Rick Perry got a C in History and a D in Economics. Just FYI.

paxamericana:

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baxterp2:

Rick Perry’s A&M report card.

I had no idea that as only a mostly above average student, I was far-and-away qualified to run for president someday. Remember when “elite” wasn’t a bad word?  Remember when the idea of a C/D-earning student running for President some day wasn’t laughable? Yeah. Me neither. ::sigh::

Two ‘A’s. Total. In his entire undergraduate career. Two. Dubya’s “daddy, pull some strings so I can go to Harvard business school” transcript doesn’t even look that bad now. And now folks are treating the economic and legal theories of someone who got a D in basic ECON seriously. I know college education isn’t a one-to-one correlation with intelligence or the soundness of ideas, but if I have to spend all of 2012 hearing about how another intellectually incurious Texas governor is “just plain folk” some jagoff reporter would “like to have a beer with” my forehead will get permanent scars.

He don’t need no fancy book learnin’ to manage the largest economy in the world or handle enormous foreign policy decisions.

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