# Does POTUS Biden believe that he's the smartest in the room?

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**Created:** [January 25, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330 "2022-01-25T00:21:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-potus-biden-believe-that-hes-the-smartest-in-the-room/958330/82 "2022-01-26T22:03:52Z")

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> [@Dr.Strangelove](#):
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> You claimed that Biden didn’t study political science, even though his degree is in “history and political science” (from your very own link). The University of Delaware itself calls it a “double major”:  
> [UD Messenger - Joe Biden](http://www1.udel.edu/udmessenger/vol16no3/stories/features_biden.html)

This one I will cop to. It wasn’t a lie - I was unaware of the double major when I said it, and was thinking of his law degree.

But I will point out that Biden said he had three undergrad degrees, when in fact he had one with a double major. However, if you add his law degree, you get two degrees, one with a double major. That’s close enough to ‘three degrees’ that I’d let it slide. However, he still lied about a lot of it.

Here’s a cite that verifies pretty much everything else I said:

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/09/22/biden-academic-claims-inaccurate/932eaeed-9071-47a1-aeac-c94a51b668e1/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/09/22/biden-academic-claims-inaccurate/932eaeed-9071-47a1-aeac-c94a51b668e1/)

Biden being the 'outstanding student in political science:

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> His undergraduate academic records show that he graduated from Delaware 506th in a class of 688 with a “C” average and that he got his undergraduate degree with a dual major in history and political science.

The fact is, Biden challenged someone to an IQ contest, and to prove his intellectual superiority proceeded to describe what sounds like a sterling academic career filled with scholarships, winning international competitions, etc.

In fact, Biden was a shitty student with crappy grades and a black mark for plagirism in law school, who graduated in the bottom third of his undergrad class and near the absolute bottom in law school. He never won an academic scholarship and did not win any international competitions.

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