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Posted on 08/18/2003 3:07:46 PM PDT by jam137
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "You have to do everything possible to win no matter what."
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"I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me."
His opponents say they don't know where he stands on the issues, but a group of tongue-in-cheek admirers have mined Arnold Schwarzenegger's past comments for hints about his beliefs and on Monday posted as an impromptu voters guide for the Oct. 7 recall election.
Welovearnold.com is the latest creation by the founders of a hugely popular Web site that paid homage to the dicta of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahef, the Iraqi minister who famously declared as U.S. troops took over the city: "I triple guarantee you, there are no Americans in Baghdad."
Instead of finding gallows humor -- as in the U.S.-led war against Iraq -- the site pumps up laughs from another conflict: California's Oct. 7 recall ballot. That election pits Schwarzenegger against political columnist Arianna Huffington, former child star Gary Coleman and 132 others hoping to unseat Gov. Gray Davis.
"We thought that there was no way the year's news could throw up anything quite as surreal as our Information Minister -- well, we reckoned without the Golden State," Kieran Mulvaney, co-founder of welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com, said. "Leave it to California to give us an election, and a candidate, almost as quote-worthy and deserving of irreverence."
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I think we would learn a lot from his answer.
*slaps forehead*
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