09.09.11
Perry science
Rick Perry’s college grades have been released.
At Texas A&M he was awarded what amounted to a semi-science degree for pantywaists. Perhaps his parents thought he would run a cattle farm some day.
His grades are here.
[Pass your mouse over the link — “do we need another dumb texan“] Not entirely rhetorical. A lot of Americans would say yes.
The degree was in “Animal Science” which sounds legitimate until you view the transcript. Note all the watering down from a standard undergrad degree in biology or chemistry.
If the grades are any indication Perry needed the dilution.
As a young man he got a D and an F in two semesters of organic chemistry, a D in trigonometry, a C in physics, a C in freshman chemistry, a D in “feeds & feeding,” a D in basic accounting, a D in economics, a D in an animal anatomy class.
It’s a hopeless transcript, the record of someone who eked one out.
So where did he come up with Galileo? A staffer pre-debate?
In any case, for Perry’s demographic the transcript couldn’t be any better. Now it’s an asset, showing you don’t need no steenkin’ learnin’ to be president of the United States.
From a historical and practical viewpoint this is true. You don’t need any education to run the United States. One can lead it so even the most learned elite snobs have no effect.
