Look, my deepest sympathies or warmest congratulations to California and Californians, whatever your preference, but all governors , not just Gov. Shcwarzenegger (sp?), are a long ways off topic. Heck, you can't even SEE the topic from here...
Can we lay this to rest and move back on point. Or I'll start talking about Alaska's governor... Jim DeWitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/27/03 3:32 PM ----- >Charles Riggs wrote: > >>You engage in the same elitist >>snobbery that the left did when they dismissed Arnold as just another >>face, by assuming that he can't POSSIBLY do that job because he's an >>actor. > >Not at all. Acting success is not a bar to doing the job as a political >leader- it just isn't sufficient to indicate anything at all. If a person >had a Nobel in chemistry it would certainly be more indicative of >intelligence and hard work, but we wouldn't think it qualified the person >to be a leader of government. So why is success as a bodybuilder and the >ability to utter lines such as "hasta la vista baby" an indicator of >success solving California's budget problems? > >>Arnold won because HE understood what the electorate was saying to >>the politicians. > >He won because Davis was a cold fish, widely disliked, and people were >anxious for an alternative. Then he ran a clever campaign repeating lines >from his films, and people are dumb enough to equate that to something >meaningful. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
