thom w wrote:
I'd love to have your scholastic records to compare to Biden's.
LOL... I am surprised you would even bring that up....
Biden's Scholastic Record according to Politifact.
That video pulls footage from an April 1987 C-SPAN clip and archived news reports. In the C-SPAN footage, Biden, who was running for the Democratic p**********l nomination in the 1988 e******n, answers a question about his academic record during a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
"I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class who had a full academic scholarship," Biden said. "The first year in law school, I decided I didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class. And then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school and, in fact, ended up in the top half of my class."
Biden also claimed he "graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school."
"I’d be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like, Frank," he said.
Biden graduated from Syracuse University’s law school in 1968, but not in the top half of his class. He also did not receive three undergraduate degrees. And, according to a September 1987 Newsweek report, Biden didn’t attend law school on a full academic scholarship, either.
In a statement published in response to the Newsweek story, and covered by the New York Times, Biden said his "recollection of this was inaccurate.''
"I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. My reference to degrees at the Claremont (N.H.) event was intended to refer to these majors — I said 'three' and should have said 'two,’" Biden said in the statement, according to the Times.
Biden graduated 76th of 85 students in his law school class, and Newsweek reported that Biden had attended Syracuse on a half scholarship based on financial need. The Democratic candidate did not directly dispute the reporting, but he said that he also received money from the school itself and the Higher Education Scholarship Fund of Delaware.
"I exaggerate when I'm angry, 'but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me," Biden told the Times.
We reached out to the Biden campaign for a comment, but they did not provide one on the record.