Posted on 07/13/2004 12:04:37 AM PDT by ladylibertyok
Good post. Arnold needs to consider how fortunate he is. He ought to pledge allegience to America, and to its flag. He is NO . . Ronald Reagan.
Amen, but then he carries dual citizenship. I cannot believe that he is a featured speaker at the GOP Convention.
What are they thinking? Or are they thinking?
That would be my bet (to give the RINO the benefit of the doubt). Most of us learned the Pledge in grade school, reciting it the very first thing in the morning every day. Obviously Arnie wasn't around for that.
But he certainly should've learned it by now.
And just WHY is it, that we allow people to maintain 'dual citizenship', anyway? If you want to become a U.S. citizen, you renounce any former allegiance to your native country, PERIOD. I always believed that was the way it HAD been. Anyone know when they started allowing this?
Arnold made much of his gratitude to America and all the opportunities for prosperity it has given him when he stated his reason for running for Governor. He said he wanted to "give something back." And now he fails to recite the pledge. I guess he doesn't want to be mistaken for one of us "right-wing crazies." (I've never forgiven him for that remark, btw. It was totally gratuitous and he gained nothing politically by it. I'll bet his relative Ted Kennedy loved it though.)
Good Q. Never understood that either...
Oh come on man, sometimes i dont even say the pledge. As long as you have your right hand over your heart then its fine. Really who cares if you dont say it. Its not disrespectful at all unless you dont have your right hand over your heart.
Possible but highly improbable. He's attended many political events at which the pledge was recited. He's an actor who is accustomed to memorizing lines. IMO, he knows the pledge.
Hey there you right-wing crazy! LOL.
We both wore that RWC tagline quite proudly for many months, IIRC.
If supporting Ward Connerly's anti-discrimination initiative made me a right wing crazy in Arnold's eyes, so be it. But I think Arnold had that wrong... and there is no excuse for him not saying the pledge of allegiance.
If it's not disrespectful for Arnold to not say it, then it would not be disrespectful for everybody else to not say it -- IOW, to not have the pledge at all.
That's why I disagree with you. If you're too good to pledge allegiance with the tongue, the hand over the heart is a hollow gesture.
Its your choice, you can say it or you dont have to say it. But it isnt disrespectful if you dont say it. Again as long as your right hand is over your heart its fine.
Or did you hear it on Howard Stearn?
You just nailed it.
I pledge allegiance
to my trophy
gained by heavy steroid use
and to the money
which it brought in
garbage movies
which I starred in
and other stuff
to sordid to mention
Communist? Howard Stern?
Because i have an opposing opinon about people saying the pledge makes you think i heard it from a communist or howard stern? I am in the U.S Navy , i have no idea what communists you are talking about.
Actually, yes. It does. Why would you refuse to pledge allegiance to the flag of your country, the United States of America? What possible reason would you have to refuse to state your allegiance?
Nobody knows the reasoning why arnold didnt say it, therefore you shouldnt jude him on something so small.
You are still pledging the alliegence when you have your hand over your heart. OK?
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