View from the distance (Toronto) on Ahnold

[inthecorneroverhere]

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031006.urecall1006/BNStory/Entertainment/

An excerpt from an interesting article:

SACRAMENTO — A special-effects man (crushes a car with a block of iron). The crowd goes mad..."Hasta la vista, car tax," Arnold Schwarzenegger shouts over an adoring crowd that resembles a rock concert more than a Republican Party rally. "Hasta la vista, car tax!"

Teenaged girls are perched on their boyfriends' shoulders. Intense young men in T-shirts reading, "My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor" clutch copies of a body-building encyclopedia.

Several thousand people dance and wave their arms as a deafening sound system begins blasting the 1980s Twisted Sister hit We're Not Gonna Take It.

On the other side of the parking lot, a group of women has quietly emerged on the edge of the crowd. They hold up placards reading, "No groper for governor," and are soon bullied by a throng of large, male Arnie supporters, the scene recorded by dozens of TV cameras. One man yells repeatedly, "Are you some kind of lesbians?" A woman in an Arnold T-shirt yells, "Everyone has a history!"

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My opinion: California, be careful! Always be careful of any politician who is so dramatic as to stir a crowd up into a kind of hysteria.

[trotsky]

1. Arnold's alleged admiration of Hitler is eerily appropriate.

What's next, book burning?

[KharmaTrain]

2. Nope...The Capitol In Sacramento burns

eom

[RichM]

3. As one who lives in Calif - it is truly insanity. Even the media coverage

of the groping & Hitler disclosures in the last few days CONTRIBUTED to the wave of fawning worshipful Arnold hysteria. It was always the top story, & the newspaper photos of adoring Arnold fans were always far more flattering to him than not. This - EVEN WHEN the stories themselves were NOT flattering.

[inthecorneroverhere]

4. more on mass activities in Cali

...(in Fresno) 4,000 people are packed into an aircraft hangar to see (Ahnold)... Less than 24 hours before, Mr. Davis had held what was to have been a key rally in ..Long Beach, attended by the state's top Democrats. The crowd was roughly 35 people (only).

"This is like going from a small wedding to a Pink Floyd concert," says a man who has just come from a rally for Mr. Davis. "I've never seen anything like this in California politics."

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The article is quite an interesting read.

[pink_poodle]

5. Wow! Things are truly disintegrating in America these days..............

This is really alarming!!!!