Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver announce separation

Is he a fraud in this sense, though? I mean, before the election the LA Times hit with that piece about his behavior on movie sets -- where he asked a woman if he ever had a man slide his tongue up her ass, among other niceties -- and he basically said, "Oh, yeah, sorry, my bad." Combine that with the softcore porn interviews he used to do and his, uh, patriarchal upbringing, and I can't think of a reason in the world any of this should be surprising. I'm sure 90 percent of the people who voted for him (myself among them) would have answered "yes" to a poll question of whether he had ever cheated on Maria.

 

Was he the reformer he promised to be, free of special interests? Nope.

Did he portray himself as the upstanding family man? Not whether he cheated on Maria.

 

Regarding the political side, I think he just governed at a time when California became simply ungovernable. I know I'm in the minority on this, but I think he played the hand he was dealt and I don't know who could have kept the state out of this mess.

Regarding how he portrayed himself, of course everybody does that to some degree and this certainly smells like he kept Maria on the hook (willingly or not) until the very moment his political career ended and she was no longer useful. But I don't find that all too surprising. And he did NOT run on a social values/morals agenda. In fact he specifically stayed out of the gay marriage debate the entire time because he thought it interfered with what he and the Legislature needed to be doing. Whether they actually did what they should be doing is another matter, but I blame the Legislature and its absurd two-thirds requirement for taxes more than I blame Ahnold.

 

Let's see, who was he running against again?

Arianna Huffington? Gary Coleman? Some porn actress?

 

To blame "the cards he was dealt with" is to forget he and his cronies were the card dealers!

California was made ungovernable because the electoral process was hijacked by Enron (whose massive manipulation of the electricity market remains underreported) and a handful of Republican activists who managed to use an arcane law to get Gray Davis tossed out on his ear shortly after his election!

 

In the interest of brevity, I will stipulate to all the political points. Now, can we get back to discussing Ahnold as poonhound?

 

How long before we see the pictures.

 

A Mother Jones columnist (yeah, go figure!) agrees that Arnie was a disaster that could have been avoided had the love child been revealed...

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/05/sorry-about-california

 

I believe that is an oversimplification of the vote. The ballot was a two-part question: Should there be a recall? And, if there is a recall, whom do you choose? I am pretty sure that most polling indicated that the recall vote was going to be "yes" and Davis was going to be out regardless of who would become governor. Now, it's fair to say Schwarzenegger's presence influenced a lot of those votes, but "yes" got 55 percent and Ahnold himself only got 48 percent, so there isn't a straight line there.

That was a damn fun time. My favorite candidate was the guy who, when he put himself on the ballot in Palo Alto, renewed the interest of authorities in Georgia who considered him the prime suspect in a murder. He was later extradited and convicted.

 

Mildred?

There's also a pic on that link that should become a shining example that when men cheat, they aren't looking for someone hotter.

 

We are not revealing the identity of the boy, however his features are eerily like Arnold's. We have various pictures of him at various ages (he's now 10 or 11) and each picture shows striking similarities, especially the mouth and teeth.

http://www.tmz.com/2011/05/17/arnold-schwarzenegger-spitting-image-love-child-mildred-patricia-baena-patty-maria-shriver-illegitimate-lovechild-love-child-kid-out-of-wedlock-maid-cheating-household-staff-separated/