crap (McBain is Governor)
Not to denigrate the vital importance of poo poo to a healthy human being, but this is the safest expletive I can use for my reaction to the California election. Is the result of this initiative, which was brought about by money and power (not of the populous – but of elite individuals) indicative of the lack of choice combined with desperation and the blinding white light of marketing and fame?
How stupid is everyone going to feel when California is completely hosed by shady Republican legislation and backdoor deals? Why would you vote for someone to lead a state that could not participate in unscripted debates? Arnold is not Jesse ‘The Body’ and I do not mean that in a complimentary way. How long has Arnold been planning to buy the Governorship? I guess I should shut up now. I really hope folks wake up before the next popularity contest. I’m not sure San Francisco is a safe destination any more. I’m guessing Seattle and Tokyo are towards the top of the list now.
Postscript for all you conspiracy lovers:
Schwarzanoia strikes deep: Was he behind the recall all along? Why do I sometimes get a distinct feeling that the series of events leading Arnold Schwarzenegger to the brink of the governorship has been much more of a meticulously-planned operation than we suspect? Let’s see:
1) Reporters search for possibly damaging outtakes from the 1977 film Pumping Iron, and they just happen to have been bought by one Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1991 …
2) Schwarzenegger is plagued by suspicions of anti-Semitism, and his father’s Nazi background, and he just happens to donate more than a million dollars to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, whose founder, Rabbi Marvin Hier, just happens to give him a clean bill of health …
3) Arnold is threatened by a tabloid story in 2001-
indeed, it’s widely believed that this is one reason he doesn’t run for governor back then. But in 2003, all of the American tabloids are under the control of a single corporation, American Media Inc-which just happens to pay $350 million to acquire the muscle magazines of Joe Weider, Arnold’s mentor, giving American Media’s CEO ample reason to “lay off” Arnold, as Weider actually says the CEO promised to do!
4) A man named George Butler becomes the key source in the Arnold/Adolf brouhaha and many other episodes in Schwarzenegger’s life—and he just happens to have gotten a large pile of money from Arnold for the sale of his film, Pumping Iron (see 1, above) ...
5) In September, when ”Nazi” charges might be expected to surface, an article just happens to appear in a German Jewish magazine describing how the young Arnold disrupted a neo-Nazi demonstration in Austria.
6) Finally, and most significantly, Schwarzenegger is a social moderate with a scandalous past who experts predict would lose in a GOP primary to a social conservative. Even if he got the GOP nomination he probably wouldn’t survive a long campaign in which his past could be chewed over. But it just happens that, after the regular 2002 campaign (in which Republicans do indeed pass over a popular, moderate social liberal) a recall petition starts up, which qualifies for the ballot and gives Schwarzenegger the sudden, unprecedented opportunity to get elected in a short campaign with no party primary! What luck!
Am I suggesting that Schwarzenegger might have planned the recall from the start to benefit himself? That’s absurd-
everyone knows the recall was bankrolled by Rep. Darrell Issa, who was intending to run for governor himself. Schwarzenegger only decided to run once the recall had qualified, making the decision almost impulsively before an appearance on the Jay Leno show-and after Senator Dianne Feinstein just happened to drop out and Mayor Richard Riordan just happened to dawdle. ...
Why would I think that this might not have been the biggest streak of favorable coincidence since Eddie Murphy wound up elected to Congress in Distinguished Gentleman? That Schwarzenegger might from the start have been somehow behind the whole recall movement that was his only plausible route to power and might well lead to his election tomorrow? I mean, it’s not as if one of the attorneys for Rescue California, Issa’s group that gathered signatures to put the recall on the ballot was also Schwarzenegger’ attorney in the controversy over his B-1 visa. ...Oh, wait! ...
So, yes, I do think there is a distinct possibility that we’re going to wake up some time after October 7 and realize that Schwarzenegger planned this whole thing out like a Hitchcock movie (except for the LAT’s unexpected last-minute demonstration of [Spanish slang for “guts”]) ... “I haven’t lived my life to be a politician,” he says. O.K. Would you believe the last decade? ...
P.S.: I forgot. He married a Kennedy.
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8 October 2003, 08:19 ::
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