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Please see #39

A few highlights: Louis Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, said the actor "would be a darker villain than any he has faced in his movies. . . . It's hard to imagine a worse governor than Gray Davis, but Mr. Schwarzenegger would be it."
'Homosexual' -- that only means to me that he enjoys sex with a man and I enjoy sex with a woman. It's all legitimate to me."
For voters seeking to understand how Schwarzenegger would govern California,

political analysts say the best example may be former Gov. Pete Wilson, who is supporting the actor, and even Gov. Gray Davis during his first term, when he tried to skip across the political spectrum and angered many liberal Democrats.

"It's like going through a buffet line where you find all sorts of things, on the left and the right, that you can chose from," said Bill Whalen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, who advised Schwarzenegger in 2001 and analyzed his public positions.

"Reporters are going to try very hard to put him in a box, but I don't think there is a box that would fit Arnold," said Whalen. "He said something very interesting to me once: 'You have to understand I am internally conflicted. I have an Austrian upbringing, but an adult life in California.' "
But policy details can matter. In his first public comments as a candidate Wednesday night, Schwarzenegger said "the junk bond ratings that we're getting,

it is disastrous." In fact, although California's bond ratings have been downgraded by Wall Street, the state's credit rating is not at junk-bond status.

Your post was an interesting read, but I don't have to agree with a candidate on every issue.

Take homosexuality for instance, if I see that the advancement of the homosexual movement is beginning to take root in my Church, I become alarmed. If I see that the government is attempting to normalize it, I'm not so alarmed really. Because homosexuality while repulsive and self-destructive, is not a crime.

And as the government is a freely elected body of people, whatever legislating takes place, it is within the scope of the electorate to accept or reject it. As a consequence, whatever type of government we get, we deserve.

I have to say though, that your post sure makes Arnold look like he's all brawn and no brain. Not good!

An interesting Bio.

Raised in poverty by strict, yet loving, parents, Schwarzenegger was barely into his teens when he pinned his hopes on bodybuilding as his ticket to the top. Self-discipline and tireless training paid off in spades when he was crowned Mr. Universe at the age of twenty, becoming the youngest man ever to win the title.

Just one year later, he was making movies, and not too long after that, he was making millions buying and selling real estate. His net worth is now over 250 million dollars. All of these milestones were followed by U.S. citizenship; a special appointment as a presidential advisor; and mind-boggling success as an actor with a stunning string of top-grossing blockbusters to his credit.

Born the second child of a police chief in Graz, Austria, young Arnold was raised in conditions the youth of today don't even hear about from their grandparents anymore: he was fourteen before the Schwarzeneggers could finally afford to furnish their home with such amenities as indoor plumbing, a refrigerator, and a telephone.

His chores began at 6:00 a.m. every day, and when those were done, Arnold and his brother were then required to perform fifteen minutes of squats and sit-ups before they were served breakfast. The boys were free to spend Sunday nights roaming about the town, which boasted a movie theater, among other amusements, but each was required to compose a ten-page essay about the evening's activities upon returning home.

It was when he began lifting weights to train for the local soccer team that Schwarzenegger first sensed that he was destined for greatness. "When I was fifteen," he recalls, "I had a clear vision of myself being onstage winning the Mr. Universe contest." He pursued this goal so assiduously that he joined the Austrian army at the age of eighteen for the sole purpose of supplementing his training diet with fresh meat.

One month after enlisting, he went AWOL to compete in the Mr. Junior Europe contest, a stunt which earned him not only the first of his many bodybuilding titles, but also a year in the brig. Doing time didn't slow him down a bit, and the following year, after leaving the army, Schwarzenegger collected the titles of Mr. Europe and Best-Built Man of Europe, and also won the International Powerlifting Championship.

In 1968, he came to the United States to defend the Mr. Universe title he'd won the previous year, and was rudely welcomed with a second-place finish--perhaps the only setback of his entire bodybuilding career. But thereafter, he dominated the sport so thoroughly--he won four more Mr. Universe titles and six consecutive Mr. Olympia titles--that he retired after seven years because he felt he "wasn't giving others a chance to win."