[daviddennis]

Arnold's move to the US and comments on life in Austria are stinging rebukes to the whole European welfare state culture. By all accounts, he was not fond of his father and it's unlikely to the extreme that his father's politics would have appealed to him.

I think we can clear him of any Nazi-related charges.

Bustamante, on the other hand, probably thinks his MEChA connection will help him with Latinos now. After all, they're 10% of the vote, and he's hovering around 20%. If he has even half the Latino vote now, that's a quarter of his total support, and he desperately needs to hold on to it or even expand it to win.

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[DAPFE8900]

Totally agree with you... Arnold has said for many many years he is regretful for his fathers actions!

[DoughtyOne]

Further David, it's quite a bit easier for us to come to the conclusion that the brown shirts was a bad organization, having never had a family member in them, much less a father. To Schwarzenegger's credit, he doesn't try to pass the brown shirt issue off by "we didn't know" or some other blather. Even with his dad in the group, he realized it was wrong. He has tried to attone for that as far back as 1990.

If there were the slightest hint of Schwarzenegger being a racist, I'd be concerned. I am not concerned about this issue with him. I think it's a shame that it was ever brought up in light of the way he has conducted himself.

Mentioning things from a person's father's past is wrong, unless there is any hint of that same behavior in the son. I don't khow why this was ever addressed by the press.

No, I just can't imagine.... not! SLIME JOB ALERT!

[Ethyl]

Arnold's move to the US and comments on life in Austria are stinging rebukes to the whole European welfare state culture. By all accounts, he was not fond of his father and it's unlikely to the extreme that his father's politics would have appealed to him.

Arnold was born way after World War II, so he wouldn't have had any indoctrination in to the Nazi element.