“But wasn’t that a fact? Obama and Gore, and to a lesser extent Kerry and Clinton, ARE scholars.”

A typical example of what the leftist bias of the media can do to people’s opinions.

Here is an article from “USA Today”, hardly a conservative mouthpiece that puts the lie to that one.
Neither Bush, Kerry nor Gore had above average grades in college, and Kerry had the worst:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/benedetto/2005-06-10-benedetto_x.htm

Here’s another with information from the Washington Post:
http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html

And Kerry refused to release his full transcripts. Gore on the other hand, had almost nothing but F’s from seminary school. How do you flunk seminary courses? Obama refuses to release his transcripts from his undergrad work. Why is that? Could it be that his grades might not have been good enough to get him into Harvard law school without a hefty helping of affirmative action or? Quayle did have a law degree, just like Kerry and Obama. Of course, the left says he bought it.

Those are just the first two sites from 180,000 by googling “grades bush gore” (I hate their politics but love their search engine.) Perhaps you might like to avail yourself of this tool before you go making any other such statements. But be careful, you may have to actually rethink your biases if you do.

So I suspect you won’t even try it.

Let’s consider McCain’s remarks in context:

QUESTION: Senator, finally, let’s talk about Spain. If you’re elected president, would you be willing to invite President Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero to the White House to meet with you?

MCCAIN: I would be willing meet, uh, with those leaders who our friends [sic] and want to work with us in a cooperative fashion, and by the way, President Calderon of Mexico is fighting a very very tough fight against the drug cartels. I’m glad we are now working in cooperation with the Mexican government on the Merida plan. I intend to move forward with relations, and invite as many of them as I can, those leaders, to the White House.

QUESTION: Would that invitation be extended to the Zapatero government, to the president itself?

MCCAIN: I don’t, you know, honestly I have to look at relations and the situations and the priorities, but I can assure you I will establish closer relations with our friends and I will stand up to those who want to do harm to the United States of America.

QUESTION: So you have to wait and see if he’s willing to meet with you, or you’ll be able to do it in the White House?

MCCAIN: Well again I don’t, all I can tell you is that I have a clear record of working with leaders in the hemisphere that are friends with us, and standing up to those who are not, and that’s judged on the basis of the importance of our relationship with Latin America, and the entire region.

Transcript via Americablog

“Obama and Gore, and to a lesser extent Kerry and Clinton, ARE scholars.” That’s great. I assume you are using irony to be funny; I can’t imagine that you would admit that you have completely fallen for the MSM storyline. Self-serving autobiographies and one-sided polemics hardly qualify as scholarly works. Beyond that, if you believe that “scholars” are especially qualified to lead a nation, I suggest you study a real scholar like Paul Johnson.

There is even less to this than to Obama’s “My Muslim religion” gaffe of a few days ago.

The Democrats and their media lapdogs just keep those smears coming. Dirty Chicago machine politics now comes to the Presidential level.