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sophiaserpentia ([personal profile] sophiaserpentia) wrote2003-09-07 03:51 pm

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Well, it says something I think about the voting public in California that Arnold Schwarzenegger managed somehow to avoid a political quagmire over the meeting with Ken Lay (and its potentially far-reaching political implications), but has become entangled in questions over a stupid interview with a skin magazine 25 years ago, which ultimately says nothing about his ability to lead in government.

Now that he has claimed he made up the story he told then about taking part in a locker-room gang bang, the voters of California have to ask themselves which would be worse: (a) the thought that Arnold did those things many years ago and is lying now to cover it up, or (b) the thought that he lied all those years ago.

Perhaps he should have instead taken a page from the Bill Clinton book on politics and said, "Yes, I did take part in that, but I didn't come."

[identity profile] mlfoley.livejournal.com 2003-09-07 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I did take part in that, but I didn't come."

*snort* Personally, I don't see why it is such a big deal. It was the 70s for goodness sake. I am more interested in his ability to be a governor than whether he slept around and did drugs in the 70s.

[identity profile] cruelly-kind.livejournal.com 2003-09-07 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly.

I wondered why Bill Clinton didn't just say, "Hey, it was 197-*mumble*. Weren't *you* smoking dope then, too?"

[identity profile] alobar.livejournal.com 2003-09-07 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I would much rather that *all* political candidates have really good sex lives -- and own them! People with good sex lives are (imo) less likely to staert wars & want to repress people out of their own repressed guilt.

[identity profile] mlfoley.livejournal.com 2003-09-08 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
I concur totally. I don't care what they do - threesomes, orgies, monogamy, swingers, it's irrelevant - just so long as they enjoy themselves. This BS about the president being sexless is dumb.