According to sources in the know, the governor of California is a very smart and capable politician who demonstrates a great ability to grasp complicated subjects and quickly boil them down to their fundamentals. He is also a pretty hilarious entertainer. For example! Yesterday at a McCain rally in Ohio he cracked a few jokes about Barack Obama’s skinny legs, and he made a better argument for John McCain’s tax policy than John McCain ever had. But the VERY BEST part came at the end.
You know the old “who would you rather have a beer with” question? Arnold kicked that up a notch:
SCHWARZENEGGER: [W]hen Americans go into that voting booth on Tuesday, I hope that you will think about this. If you were in a POW cell, with the threat and danger and torture as part of the daily life, who would you want in that cell with you?
AUDIENCE: John McCain!
SCHWARZENEGGER: A man — you want a man of eloquence or a man of proven courage –
AUDIENCE: John McCain!
SCHWARZENEGGER: — who has shown that he will fight for others, even at the sacrifice to himself, who has been tested in crisis?
So hooray, four years with John McCain as president will kind of be like four years in a tiny Vietnamese prison cell: chock full o’ fear and torture and deprivation. LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL.
Transcript: Schwarzenegger Campaigns With McCain [CNN]
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It keeps getting uncuriouser and uncuriouser……
My grandfather was a POW (Stalag Luft Eine) in WWII, yet didn’t seem compelled to base an entire political career on that single experience…
“My fellow prisoners” indeed.
Words of wisdom from Matrix, go back and run California into the ground, they need you there.
Barack has been a pillar of confidence, cool, and level headedness this entire campaign. McCain represents desperation, low road politics and putting self and your own personal aspirations far in front of country. There is no limit to the depths John McCain won’t sink to in an effort to win this election. He gave up country first a long time ago. Schwarzenegger, an alleged racist, who’s been critical of Sarah Palin and John McCain, now is being utilized as McCain’s saving grace. Politics are such a joke.
Fuck ya’ll… I’m taking the early out… See ya bitches! If you get out for good behavior (i.e. blowing your guards, who will all be closeted gay boy scout troop leaders) come see me in Rio for Carnival.
I think he’s simply anticipating how life will be 3 years into the McCain Depression, where our jailers are actually our housing officers, controlled by the Treasury Secretary, and we are forced to work as slave labor to support continuing bailouts for Wall Street.
“Now, Senator McCain, on the other hand, he is built like a rock.”
Igneous and sinking.
“He can’t be bargained with. He can’t be reasoned with. He doesn’t feel pity, or pain, or remorse. And he will not stop, until he’s President of the World!”
As long as I can share the cell with Sarah Connors,…
(I was shocked to see Wonkette posting on a weekend. Must be part of some “community service” plea deal).
I live in CA and I cried when Arnold was elected, but to be honest he kicks the shit outta Pete Wilson. So when Barry wins anyway I’ll forgive him for this too. And if McCain wins I’ll be dead anyway so it’ll be nbd.
[re=158834]Rush[/re]: They took all the fun out of weekend comments. Part of the fun of weekend comments was the tired worn out story that nobody even remembered by Sunday, even though it was way up at the top of the comments somewhere. I think they’re trying to get money to survive or something, which may be difficult since all our money is going to be good for in a few days is starting fires.
[re=158825]Roschelle[/re]: McPokey is campaigning like it’s 1979. I knew Ronald Raygun and he’s no Ronald Raygun. Hengh-hengh.
Schwarzenegger needs to bring his sexist-racists-ass back to broke-ass California…the Prison Industrial Complex Union-thingy has the Recall Gun locked and loaded, and they are just looking for a reason to pull the trigger. Besides, how much more can Maria possible hate you?
“Senator McCain on the other hand is built like a rock.”
The guy can’t lift his arms over his head, his body is riddled with arthritis, he is as stiff as a priapism (and as resolute), and I can her the crackle of his internal organs calcifying whenever he nears a mic.
There goes that Energy Czar position in Obama administration he was coveting. Can’t Maria Shriver control him?
Who won in Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris? Lee vs. Kareem Abdul Jabbar? I don’t know, but I can imagine…
“[W]hen Americans go into that voting booth on Tuesday, I hope that you will think about this. If you were in a POW cell, with the threat and danger and torture as part of the daily life, who would you want in that cell with you?”
Houdini?
[re=158828]grendel[/re]: some of us would be paragons of good behavior!
Hey…Kennedy put the US into Vietnam, so he’s…responsible for the war and all its horrors, so we can’t vote Democrat? (Head ‘splodes)
Let’s see Awwnowd and McStuck-in-the-past, “prisoners” or this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-robert-aziz/reclaiming-americas-leade_b_139117.html
[re=158836]bidenluvr6969[/re]: Be afraid be very afraid, Obama loses McShit will be Darkseid and the world will become like Apocalypse ( McDarkseid, as of today this is his name. Oh the humanity!
[re=158853]palmerdawg[/re]: VP Darth will not let McDarkseid take his turf.
And he’ll amend the Constitution so that each presidential term lasts FIVE AND A HALF YEARS!!!
As president of Bamboo Cage America, John McCain’s priorities will be:
– Winning the Wednesday afternoon Russian roulette game;
– Saving the maggots from the rice to make a protein-rich broth;
– Transmitting Perry Como lyrics to his fellow inmates in Morse code;
– Dreaming about the hot tail he gets once he’s freed and dumps his wife.
[re=158845]Dreamer[/re]: Maria likes to ignore him and pretend he will go away – just like most of the rest of her life…
I would rather be in a prison cell in Vietnam than a gas chamber in the Governator’s basement.
Arnold has made one appearance for WALNUTS!, even Romney is getting some cheap grace in Colorado. You do have to show up to help your friends move. He’s kinda shafted his own party in Cali, which is much more significance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImmcP9-umKA
Fuck you, Arnold.
Didn’t Wonkette invent Bible Spice?
Schwarzenegger might be a halfwit, but damn — Victoria Jackson makes him look like Paul Krugman. Where does McCain get these celebrities?
[re=158844]Heywood Floyd[/re]: I think he meant to say “is built like a rock so long as he takes his Viagra.”
There was a political administration in Germany back in the 30′s and 40′s that promoted the very same arm-raising exercise that Arnold is demonstrating.
A McCain administration would mean a return to those simple times.
[re=158871]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Victoria Jackson for VP. One prays…PRAYS she is punking. “I read 1984, twice” indeed.
[re=158834]Rush[/re]: Newell’s stuck at home with a monitoring bracelet for posting his retarded roommate’s atrocious Tim Curry video last night.
Did anyone see John Cleese on Olbermann lats night? He nearly pissed himself laughing at ‘nuts saying “my fellow prisoners” It is highly recommended
I wish I could find that old Annie Liebowitz photo of Arnold and Lou Ferrigno bare-chested together in bed. I want it for my “No on Proposition 8″ poster. I know I have a postcard of it somewhere around here.
[re=158856]Herunar[/re]: Hey whale fart, go back to townhall.com with your ignorant thoughts.
I mean, i just left that site and i had to take a shower, back to the slime lined cave from whence you came.
John Mccain Experience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vIAfBqWOL4
Oh, I think it possible that she is punking! Listen to the lyrics in the song “I AM NOT A BIMBO” that automatically plays at the main page of her website. She has a line in there about “I read Newsweek … TWICE!”
Then on the other hand the text content of her page seems bimbo-fundie ..
Hard to tell..
Who do you want to tell the POW guards how valuable his family name is, and how useful he is as a bagaining chip?
Who do you want to refuse to provide information about you after you’re assumed dead and your family is sent a posthumous purple heart?
(In all seriousness, that actually happened to a friend’s father. He was assumed dead until discovered years later, his family was never the same. It was a weird sort of talking point when we were teens, then he went massively PTSD after his kids left the house
I’m sure he was never fully “OK”, but he was able to maintain his civilian job and the facade of a normal life well enough to fool others.
[re=158888]WonkaBee[/re]: I think she’s serious. She came out with a really ridiculous diatribe about Obama being a Muslim a while ago, which isn’t worth the five minutes it would take to find it on the web. She could be the next Andy Kaufman, but I kinda doubt it.
What does Ahnuld know about running a government? CA is locked in a financial hell because of his Republican comrades and he can’t do anything but stump for the Manchurian Candidate.
I would want Houdini with me in my cell as well. Best line of the discussion.
SCHWARZENEGGER: — who has shown that he will fight for others, even at the sacrifice to himself, who has been tested in crisis? — Translated directly from the Hoch Deutsch. The Governator still thinks–to the extent that he does this activity–in the Kraut language.
speaking of Douchey McDouches:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Boehner-Obama-Insult.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
While campaigning for Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Wednesday, Boehner told a small crowd at a bar in Oxford (Ohio) that failing to vote ”yes” or ”no” on an issue meant a lawmaker was a ”chickens—,”
Hey you living Bob’s Big Boy/Frisch’s mascot piece-of-crap, it’s too bad that all your bullshit badmouthing isn’t going to save Ohio from the Hopey menace!
It’s also too bad that your district defines itself by the presence of mouth-breathing morans, otherwise it would have been so awesome to pull a Bachman or Dole on your ass!
Well, I was going to vote for Obama but those were some good points Arnie brought up. Who wants to vote for a President who’s skinny? McCain Palin ’08!
Defend McBush and the Godzilla from Wasilla? Arnold is a girlie man after all.
I could live with being Barack Obama’s cell mate. I can think of ways to pass the time . . .
Don’t be fooled. Schwarzenegger’s speech on the campaign trail is just a ruse.
He is in fact with McCain in order to take part in a top secret Republican breeding program. Take Scharzenegger, a more liberal than most Democrat Republican who loves teh gayez, personally performs abortions, does drugs and is part of Hollywood, and then breed him with the most extreme, right wing, pro-guns, religious zealot that the party can produce.
Let’s just say that little Trig should expect a brother in nine months, who will be perfect Republican, or at least a vessel in which they can have some witch doctor place the soul of Ronald Reagan in.
[re=158926]wheelie[/re]: aw, HELLS yeah!!! ;0)~
Jebus, if I was stuck in a cage with McCain for even one day, having to hear stories about the “good old days” when bread only cost a nickel and you could run out to the speakeasy to share some hooch with your doll, I think I would rip out my own eardrums and play hackeysack with them.
There are some pretty great side-by-side pics of gropey and hopey here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/1/95156/4117/62/648802
[re=158883]One Yield Regular[/re]: This it? (Doesn’t look like Lou, but would still be a nice sign…)
http://www.etoday.ru/uploads/2008/04/07/annie_leibovitz_arnold_schwarzenegger.jpg
[re=158946]CooterMarie[/re]: Oh my eyes! Why did I look at those hideous pictures. Aanold has boobs? Is that as a result of the steroids?
WTF? I thought Ah-nold was all “post partisan” and the politics of hatred don’t work after his one “girly man” shot in ’04. He is pretty much done in Calif though, from what I’m reading. I guess he wanted to remind people he still held office. This can’t be over soon enough. Who else can McPalin pull out of the dumpster? Bob Taft? W The missing President?
I still can’t believe Schwa-chan is our governor. What the fuck, California. It still seems like some kinda wacky dream.
“It’s not how thick your legs are, it’s the tone.” Later adds Obama is “pretty fit,” says “maybe when this is over we could get Governor Schwarzenegger on the basketball court and see what he can do.” Axelrod
Awesome slash prompt – stuck in POW camp w. Barack Obama…
I have been trying for about 4 years now, to get locked inside a cell with Barack Obama. It’s not really a contest, Arnold.
[re=159018]Idlerat[/re]: Um, those juicy visuals *aren’t* helping me focus on work… ;0)~
>>If you were in a POW cell, with the threat and danger and torture as part of the daily life, who would you want in that cell with you?
Anyone but John McCain.
I only want to be in a prison cell with people who are really good at back sassing the enemy during a torture session. Remember in Rambo III, when the Ruskies string up Colonel Trautman and say, “Now, where are ze missiles?” And Trautman says, “They’re up yer ass.” I think Obama could back sass circles around McCain any day.
The last person I would want is somebody who’d hog the latrine.
[re=158946]CooterMarie[/re]: If I was stuck in a cage with McCain and he started reading Faulkner out loud only one of us would come out of there alive.
If I’m stuck in a cell with the promise of torture and deprivation, I would like someone who’s good at cleaning house and keeping things tidy in a cell. Or someone who can get my ass outa there real soon. Or at least give me a good blowjob.
From what I know, John McCain aint that guy.
I’m going to shock you with a fact you will find ludicrous. You will label me a fringe nutcase, but this was confirmed to me by his former trainer in Palm Springs. So be it:
Arnold had calf implants because his calves would not develop as freakishly as the rest of his body when he was “the Next Big Thing”.
Now, how much credibility does he have?
You’re right: None.
[re=158969]rina[/re]: I can’t open the link. In any event, apologies for my laziness in not bothering to look up how to spell “Leibovitz.” I KNOW that photo exists.
Ah – found it! (last photo down on the left):
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/annie-leibovitz/photo-gallery/19/
check out this john mccain voting fraud video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGF-HEd6XnA “
[re=158915]Polly Sigh-Entist[/re]: Of course! Voting “present” makes you a chickenshit. Whereas having the name of a giant dick makes you…
“[W]hen Americans go into that voting booth on Tuesday, I hope that you will think about this. If you were in a POW cell, with the threat and danger and torture as part of the daily life, who would you want in that cell with you?”
Richard Dean Anderson as Angus MacGyver of the Phoenix Foundation, bricoleur supreme?
John McCain, ‘a man of proven eloquence’? My head just exploded, oh Arnold. It’s not like the GOP hasn’t spent a significant portion of its campaign hollering about how Obama was all about pretty speeches, &c.
Also, I don’t know where Arnold’s getting his information about those skinny legs. Insufficient evidence! Need more cowbell, by which I mean, Obama in jeans. (And that’s the criteria all POTUS hopefuls should be judged by: can you rock a pair of boot-cut dark rinse?)
I wonder if Maria will make him sleep on the sofa until Wednesday.
The good thing about being stuck in a POW cell with a 72-year-old man is he would be dead within a week and I might get more gruel. And I wouldn’t have to fight with him over the honey bucket.
Remember when Arnold got caught having sex with a woman and he said “Keating isn’t cheating”. How prophetic.
Where’s the part when he says he’s going to make Obama do some squats?! You need that audio badly. It’s scary but strangely arousing.
[re=158848]Heywood Floyd[/re]: Who would I want in the cell with me? Not some grumpy old man. Houdini, now thats a good idea.
Holy shit,he wasn’t kidding when he called us his “fellow prisoners”.
Um, did no one else look at that picture and think, “Why Governor, you *are* happy to see me!” Do you not notice the, well, chubby?
(no, not the steroid pecs, look south)
Anyhoo, the McCain endorsement was pro-forma, at best. He was really there to push his weightlifting competition (notice that he only appears in the state where the Schwarzenegger Challenge occurs). He even spent half the time talking about it.
[re=158946]CooterMarie[/re]: LOL, FUCKING PRICELESS!!
[W]hen Americans go into that voting booth on Tuesday, I hope that you will think about this. If you were in a POW cell, with the threat and danger and torture as part of the daily life, you’d know how the rest of the world feels about us.
Hail Hitler! in the buff.
Somebody has a man-crush.
Now, I heard that when John McCain was a POW he whinned like a bitch to get medical treatment to the point he sold out his country to the enemy. So, how brave can the little man with short arms be?
[re=159758]annie[/re]: I think there’s some truth that story.
I wish the editors would have used the pic where he had a pair of tits around his head.
Man that GUY looks good I’m wanting to hide the BIG MAN deep in his ass for sure.
Tomorrow I TAKE OVER, U niggas and fags ready to PARTY?
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