BuddyLee said:
Irregardless, the congressmen/women and those who run for the office of the presidency should have top scores IMO.
Let me put it this way, would you rather have a doctor who scored a C+ average in school or a doctor who scored A-?
An A in a class doesn't necessarly mean a mastery of the course or retention of knowledge. I have gotten A's in classes that I didn't learn a thing in, the one class that I learned the most in I got a C.
As I found out in college there are a few ways to approach things. My first couple years I spent a lot of time doing homework, redoing homework, and preparing myself for the tests, I managed a B+ average. My next two years and throughout graduate school I had a different approach, learn the theory, understand the theory, don't bother doing homework or even study for the test. This approach allowed me to tackle any problem and not just one that I studied how to do before hand, I did next to nothing and I was able to raise my grades to an A- average.
Granted this approach wouldn't have worked in a class where all you do is memorize stuff like history or even biological sciences but it worked great in math and engineering classes. To this day I retain alot more of what I learned in my classes than my coworkers.
Well after that long winded story (sorry) my point is getting good grades isn't necessarly a measure of how smart you are, how hard you work, or even how much you learned, they are an indication but the exceptions to the rule are pretty common.
Kerry finally released his grades from Yale...
I wonder if a C at Yale or Harvard is like an A at a state school.....hmmmm....
). I'd rather he get an A in leadership as my Representative.
Furthermore, I never recognized that the leaders of this nation have either 1) book smarts or 2) common sense. As leaders of the nation they should have both. JMO.
BuddyLee, you should know better. 
Same difference. One is just a so-called butcher word in the English language.