JOHN (GAIN POWER OFF THE BACKS OF HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS) KERRY SLANDERS THE MILITARY

Michelle Malkin posts a montage of John Kerry screw ups. The latest of which implicitly degrades military personnel. Kerry says this about the subject:

“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Malkin suggests every Republican publish this info. Read more on her blog. Gateway Pundit adds more to the story.

Interesting note; a reader did a quick search on the educational background of military personnel and e-mailed it to Malkin. Here's the report:

After just a quick search, I found the following:
Academic Education

-- 49.2 percent of officers have advanced or professional degrees; 39.4 percent have master's degrees, 8.5 percent have professional degrees and 1.3 percent have doctorate degrees.

-- 22.8 percent of company grade officers have advanced degrees; 16.5 percent have master's degrees, 5.9 percent have professional degrees and 0.3 percent have doctorate degrees.

-- 85.4 percent of field grade officers have advanced degrees; 70.7 percent have master's degrees, 12.1 percent have professional degrees and 2.5 percent have doctorate degrees.

-- 99.9 percent of the enlisted force have at least a high school education; 73.3 percent have some semester hours toward a college degree; 16.2 percent have an associate's degree or equivalent semester hours; 4.7 percent have a bachelor's degree; 0.7 percent have a master's degree and .01 percent have a professional or doctorate degree."

That comes from http://www.af.mil/news/story_print.asp?storyID=123027385 (about a third of the way down). I'm sure there's better information out there. Also, while I was in the military, I remember reading a study showing that the education levels in the military FAR outstrip anything seen in the civilian world. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything like it in the short time I looked. I'd bet that if you contacted an official military liaison, they could give you good information instantly.

While we're on the subject of gray matter, perhaps we should remember this from the Wall Street Journal:

For some reason, Democrats never get tagged with the "stupid" label. When I've asked journalists and political scientists if any leading liberal has developed a general media image as intellectually limited in recent years, they always draw a blank. Clearly, a certain amount of bias is at work, since stupidity knows no ideology.
Consider the treatment that the past two Democratic nominees received. Mr. Bush has been routinely pilloried for having been less than academically inclined while attending Yale and Harvard Business School. But when the Washington Post revealed Al Gore's unimpressive academic record, which included sophomore grades at Harvard that were "lower than any semester recorded on Bush's transcript from Yale," the media yawned.

They had a similar reaction to the news that Mr. Bush's SAT scores were higher than both those of John Kerry. Linda Gottfredson, a co-director of the University of Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society, told United Press International columnist Steve Sailer in 2004 that when she converted Mr. Bush's SAT score to an IQ, "I derived an IQ of 125, which is the 95th percentile." A study in the latest issue of the academic journal Political Psychology concludes that "Bush is definitely intelligent . . . in the upper range of college graduates in raw intellect.

Comments

[Damian]

Kerry is an arrogant elitist. He sticks his foot in his mouth and then blames republicans. Bush is smarter than Kerry and Gore together.

[Damian]

John Kerry walks in and sits down at the bar. The bartender looks at him and says, "Why the long face?"