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Thread ID: 9464 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2003-09-02
2003-09-02 14:37 | User Profile
Big news about Ah-nuld, now that the Nazi-hood of his dad is starting to sputter as a news cycler, is the comment allegedly made to or in the presence of black bodybuilding champion Rick Wayne. According to Drudge, it was in the context of apartheid in South Africa years ago, about which Arnold then said:
"If you gave these blacks a country to run, they would run it down the tubes."
Of course, anyone who's been to South Africa recently can attest that in fact, blacks ARE running it down the tubes. I'm taking bets on whether that bit of information will seep out anywhere in the mainstream media.
2003-09-02 15:16 | User Profile
Well, here's one place it won't show up. "Free" Republic.
2003-09-02 15:29 | User Profile
Well, let's see one successful Black country. It's pretty hard to run a tight ship when you're dealing with folks with an average IQ of 70.
2003-09-02 19:24 | User Profile
Arnold also told Bill Grant (black bodybuilder) that blacks would never be as successful as whites, in anything, because they didn't have the work ethic whites do. Since Grant is black, Arnold probably soft pedaled his statements, and has a much harder view toward reality. There is little doubt he knows what's really going on, and how things really are.
2003-09-02 19:28 | User Profile
It is a shame how "pc" Arnold has become. :crybaby:
2003-09-03 03:20 | User Profile
*Originally posted by Roy Batty@Sep 2 2003, 19:24 * ** Arnold also told Bill Grant (black bodybuilder) that blacks would never be as successful as whites, in anything, because they didn't have the work ethic whites do. Since Grant is black, Arnold probably soft pedaled his statements, and has a much harder view toward reality. There is little doubt he knows what's really going on, and how things really are. **
Which makes his "liberal" country club Republicanism all the more infuriating. What's his game, anyway? Is it just blind ambition? Does he want to be governor so badly that he's prepared to mouth the "we all be ekwals" bullshit we know he doesn't believe in and implement policies that will only hasten our slide into the sewer? If so, what's the point?
2003-09-03 04:18 | User Profile
Cigar Aficionado has an article about Arnold this month (and Arnold on the cover). He's one of those guys who believes there's nothing he can't do. He always has to win, always has to be on top.
"I have the single focus. I am seeing in front of me always what I want to accomplish. And I'm relentless--I will continue until I get it, whatever "it" is.**" **
He's quite an interesting guy in some ways. He was born just after the war in a poor village in Austria:
"I was a farm boy from out in the village. We had no TV. No electricity. No refrigerator. No flushinhg toilets. We had nothing in the house. Absolutely nothing. But I never felt I was poor as a kid. I'd see my mother make a sweater and my father make a little figure with his knife. And that was a Christmas gift. We were delighted with those things and I didn't feel I was cheated out of anything or that it would hold me back." Out of his childhood, Arnold says came a lesson that would guide him for the rest of his life: "Don't worry about where you come from. Worry more about where you are going." His father Gustav, was an imposing figure. He was commander of tthe local gendarmerie and a severe taskmaster, but Arnold admired him: he was an athlete, a musician, and he carried a gun. At a very early age, though, Arnold realized he could not stay in Thal-by-Graz. "I knew that if I had to stay in Austria, it meant death for me, because I would have been depressed from here to eternity. I felt that was not the place where I wanted to be. I was meant for more than that."
I don't get any sense that he's ideologically driven at all. It's just about Arnold climbing to the top.
2003-09-03 04:19 | User Profile
I don't understand Schwarzenegger's reasons of entering the recall race, either. Since the "compassionate conservatives" define today's GOP, isn't it something how no one from the previous (read: old) guard of the party has said anything about him?? As an aside, I really don't understand this concept of Republicans and Democrats being married to each other. Just like Mary Matalin and James Carville; what is the point of two people from opposing parties being married, anyway?? Of course, the Republican side is "moderate" (in reality, a Democrat liberal who's ashamed to admit it) while Democrat side goes about its usual business. So funny how the right kinds always have to appease the other side in some shape or form.