Posted on 06/11/2003 8:06:09 PM PDT by fightinJAG
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Vanity, y'all! These jokes were too good to not get their own post:
The actor mentioned the recall only indirectly in his speech, quipping at one point: "This is really embarrassing. I just forgot our state governor’s name, but I know that you will help me recall him."
At another point he said: "I can feel the beginning of another people's revolt. I can hear the multitude crying, ‘We are mad as hell and we can’t take it any longer’."
The Austrian-born actor praised the United States for allowing an immigrant who had arrived with his pockets empty and his head filled with dreams to become one of the world’s wealthiest and most famous movie stars.
He also poked fun at his lingering accent and at being married to Maria Shriver, the NBC News correspondent who is a Democrat and a member of the Kennedy family. He said he had promised to stay married in sickness and in health - "and being a Democrat is a sickness," he added.
FOREIGN STAFF
FRESH from saving the world from the machines in the latest Terminator movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger appears on the verge of launching a campaign to become California’s governor, to save the state from the politicians.
The film star has been at the centre of persistent rumours that he’s considering running as a Republican candidate for the post. Like an experienced campaigner, Schwarzenegger, 55, brushed off questions about his political ambitions at a speech to a taxpayer advocacy group on Tuesday night at a Century City hotel, without actually denying them.
"I’m telling you right now that I’m just thinking about Terminator and not about anything else," he said.
Yet he delivered a campaign-style speech to the conservative Washington anti-tax group Club for Growth. He said: "There comes a point when we the people must demand more out of our elected officials than for them just showing up. Howard Jarvis used to say it is time to show the politicians who is the boss. We are at such a point right now.
"Our elected officials in Sacramento are facing a budget crisis unseen in this state since the Great Depression, and it was entirely avoidable.
"Teachers are getting pink slips, cops are getting laid off, the taxpayers are facing an increase in taxes and California’s future is in danger."
Although Schwarzenegger is not yet a declared candidate for governor, his 20-minute talk, touching on his rags-to-riches immigrant story, his lambasting of Sacramento politicians and his paeans to the people contained all the elements of a political stump speech.
His political advisers have said Schwarzenegger will decide whether to run after the 2 July release of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and only then if it becomes clear that an effort under way to recall Gray Davis, the Democratic governor, will qualify for the ballot. Supporters need to collect nearly 900,000 valid voter signatures to make that happen.
The actor mentioned the recall only indirectly in his speech, quipping at one point: "This is really embarrassing. I just forgot our state governor’s name, but I know that you will help me recall him."
At another point he said: "I can feel the beginning of another people's revolt. I can hear the multitude crying, ‘We are mad as hell and we can’t take it any longer’."
The Austrian-born actor praised the United States for allowing an immigrant who had arrived with his pockets empty and his head filled with dreams to become one of the world’s wealthiest and most famous movie stars.
He also poked fun at his lingering accent and at being married to Maria Shriver, the NBC News correspondent who is a Democrat and a member of the Kennedy family. He said he had promised to stay married in sickness and in health - "and being a Democrat is a sickness," he added.
sound bite leadership, sexual discrimination suits and a Kennedy in the Gub's mansion on the West Coast. We've come a long way , Baby!
If I want one liners about wives, I'll listen to my old Henny Youngman tapes or Rodney Dangerfield . ;-\
Yes, Arnie, and let's hope you induce California to recover from it.
Tom McClintock has run for statewide office and looks damn fine in a kilt!
Seriesly, in a conciliatory note, ;-) WE need a Republican runoff so at least we only field 1 or 2 candidates at most even yet..yaknow.. Vote dilution is our biggest enemy..
This is the first step in seizing the reins of power from the Red horde in Stinkymento. IN the next General Election in 2004, we need to toss all the tax and spend demRats out on their keesters.
Speaking of one liners about wives.. Did ya hear the one about the .. Nyahhh! I better not go there. ;-)
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