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Ugh, I am so sick of politicians bragging about how they weren’t the smartest students. We should have known something was wrong when Bush famously told a graduating class that he was proof that “All you C students, you too can be president.” Let me say right now, I’m a college student, and I know a lot of C students, and I sure as hell wouldn’t want them running the country. What brought this up? This:

Sen. John McCain graduated fifth from the bottom in his U.S. Naval Academy class and he joked about his “less than exemplary behavior” in a commencement speech delivered Monday at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy on Long Island.

“As I alluded to earlier, I was not a very impressive midshipman,” McCain told the 213 graduates who have been trained as merchant marine and Naval Reserve officers. “I wasn’t a very dedicated student, and I was, to say the least, a discipline problem. The problem was I didn’t like discipline.”

Yeah, I know it’s not exactly the same thing, but McCain is just furthering this myth that an average person can become president. It sounds nice in theory, that an average person can be president, but it’s not true in the least bit: it takes an above average person to be a good president, and after Bush leaves office, we’ll need somebody extraordinary. I suspect most people agree– I don’t want candidates bragging about how they were average (or below average, in Bush and McCain’s case), I want somebody who was and continues to be amazing at everything they do.

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