HI Charles,

Just a correction,

>When Walter talks about GBW's getting into Harvard ( which was indeed a school of legacy rich kids in '62 )only because his father was president (GHWB was a very unimportant congressman at the time and most of GWBs classmates had daddies a lot more important than that)

Gee, did I say because Bush sr. was president. He was a powerfull man. Whether or not other fathers of kids on that school were more powerfull is not the issue here. Regardless of that it IS a FACT that he would not have gotten into Yale and Harvard without the help of his dad.

>where his SATs and grades were as good as Gore's, and of his grandfather being a governor ( Prescott Bush was in fact a Senator - never as powerful as Al Gore's father ) etc I know he is speaking from talking points and not from a knowledge of history. It is like talking about the death of Foxpro because the kid at Radio Shack whose cousin knew some VB said so.

Note that I don't compare politicians here. My comments are directed at bush sr. here. I've said nothing here that is/was not true. It did not say/imply that Al-gore was better or not. Just stayed with facts here. O.K. I made a mistake in saying that prescot bush was a governor, while he was a senator, but that is not the point here.

Walter,