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Would you vote Swarzenegger for President?
ste2000
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Hi there.
I ve been following Swarzy handling of the fire problem in California and also I've been impressed by his green credential.
Also he is more articulate and intelligent than I thought (well if you watch his movies you cannot think differently).
So, I was asking myself if Americans (in particular Republicans) would vote for Swarzenegger if he could run for the White House.
I mean how cool would it be to have the Terminator as President of the Unite States?
PS: I know he can't be eligible because he wasn't born in US, but c'mon that guy is more American than most American born, I think it is a bit silly that you cannot run for President if you are not born there.
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na hes turned into a twat
Only if he makes Terminator 4 during his campaign run! Haha, Well I don't like to talk RL politics on forums, so lets just leave it at that!
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Moot point: Only native-born Americans can run for president. If you weren't born an American citizen, you cannot be made president, as per the US Constitution.
I like him, but I'm not sure if he's presidential material. OTOH, he's better than a lot of the people who are actually running.
Thought his wife is most certainly impressive as well. She would make a great canaidate!
He does seem to be on top of the picture and handeling himself well. The on goings on their stadium is very impressive
If you read entirely my OP, you' ll realise that I mention his alreasy.
This is actually the reason why I made this thread.
I know that Swarzy cannot run as President because wasn't born in US, but I am very curious to know, if it was possible, US citizen will they vote for him?
If it was a choice between him and Clinton, in a flash. I'd rather have a mostly innefectual commander in chief than that quasicommunist trollop.
Otherwise, hell no
Of course, there are worse options than either out there, but I'm otherwise sticking to the normal candidate lineup.
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I picked "No because i don't like his policies."
But I didn't see the "Yes, but only if he changes some of his policies." which is what I would pick.
For example, his support for the Brady Bill would have to go.
bleh it's not worth thinking about since it couldn't happen
I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
no the guys a hypocrite. He says he wants "green energy" and yet he has a nuclear plant, and is planning to build another. He says coal plants that put out .001 (or .0001 i cant remember) pollution are over pulluting the earth..... hes a bum, also i never had a whole lot of respect for people who did steroids.
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Nuclear power does not produce any pollutants directly. It does, however, produce waste products that are *very* difficult to deal with.
From an atmospheric point of view, nuclear is a far better solution than coal. The only thing a nuclear power plant releases into the air is steam.
Yeah, barring the consequenses involved in an accident, Nuclear fission is currently the cleanest and most environmentally freindly source of power we have (that is also at all efficient in power production)
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I don't live in California so I'm not really familiar with him or his policies, but just from what I've seen of him on television and whatnot...to me he appears to be someone who is easily manipulated into doing what other people want. I don't doubt he's intelligent though.
I do know that he totally got burned at the first Republican debate. IIRC only one of the candidates said they would be willing to amend the constitution to allow him to run.
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Why would I vote for the son of a Nazi to be the President of my country?
Why would I vote for someone NOT BORN IN my country to be in charge of it?
And the only good Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Why do I want to see that dysfunctional clan have greater access to the Whitehouse?
Dont see why not. Its not like any of the other current candidate have a larger/more important resume. If youre gonna scrape the bottom of the barrel, you might as well get it all.
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No,I won't.Like I said,I don't like his policies.
Yes, I will.
Ok the son of a nazi thing is hardly compelling as Arnold himself is not nazi. Arnold and his father are not the same person.
Would he make a good president? Well I doubt he would be great but he may be acceptable as a place holder. The bar has been set pretty low lately so I suppose he may actually be an improvement.
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I could see Chimpy McFlightsuit changing the rules so that Arnie could run for Prez. Not in 2008, but in 2012.
Given that the dollar is headed for the shitter, the Dems getting elected in '08 is going to be bad, as that give the R's the chance to blame the continuing quagmire of shit in Iraq on the D's, as well as the fubared economy.
Fielding a candidate that a good many would vote for because they recognize him from movies might well work. Hell, it worked for Reagan not once, but twice.
It would take, what, an Constitutional Amendment to allow him to be elected. That would be an interesting fight. Everyone would know just who the legislation was written for. The Democrats would have to oppose it to keep down a potential threat. The Republicans would have to sacrifice some of their stances given that allowing foreign-born to be president is probably not a very conservative thing.
More on topic, why not? He's better than most of the other candidates. He's West-Coast Republican, who are usually more free of the taint of the Christian Right than any other Republicans in the nation. West Coast Republicans tend to veer more towards Libertarian, so he's odds would be pretty good in this day and age.
And to the nuclear power thing....exactly what kind of power plant is eco-friendly? Solar is not acceptable, it can't generate the juice. So you're left with coal, oil, and nuclear. You've got to have one of them. Personally, having grown up around nuclear I prefer it to the clouds of crap in the air.
Lol and what do you think was that stuff comeing out of the coal plant?? they give off .01% pollution, (my guesses were wrong) and there are other upgrades to make it produce only .001%. Anwyays my dad worked at a coal plant in laughlin, Arnold shut it down and we had to move because .01% was to much. Next thing you know he'll start making laws against people farting and banning cows in CA(they give off more pollution then we do!)
lol yeah they are the cleanest until one of those poorly maintained nuke plants has a meltdown, i heard some storys of the death valley nuke plants, that they use tape for everything, and barely do any maintenence, and im guessing this is very common. The san onofre nuke plant(one in CA) has the highest accident rate because they do constant maintenence, and most of the injuries are papercuts(seriously) anyways i guess its just speculation for all the other nuke plants besides death valley, but im pretty sure they would have high accident rates if they did alot/any maintenencing.
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Actually, it is a possibilty, sometime in the future.
Take a look at THIS.
People have been pushing for an amendment for a while.
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Maybe their employees wear gloves?
Maybe their employees wear gloves?
lol you try turning pages with the gloves they give you
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lol yeah they are the cleanest until one of those poorly maintained nuke plants has a meltdown, i heard some storys of the death valley nuke plants, that they use tape for everything, and barely do any maintenence, and im guessing this is very common. The san onofre nuke plant(one in CA) has the highest accident rate because they do constant maintenence, and most of the injuries are papercuts(seriously) anyways i guess its just speculation for all the other nuke plants besides death valley, but im pretty sure they would have high accident rates if they did alot/any maintenencing.
Our reactor design is such that if anything goes wrong, the reactor shuts down and... sits there. It is impossible for our plants to have the kind of accident that devastated Chernobyl (an incident born of Russian style engineering and more importantly their beurocracy. There was a reactor cutoff mechanism that those tending the plant could have hit to avert the worst of the disaster, but they had to wait for clearance that never came.) Even the semi famous incident at Long Island released no more radiation than what reaches us from our sun on a minute by minute basis. The primary accidents I was talking about are involved in waste disposal.
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Mute point, he cant run for Prsident, have to be an american citizen by birth. Born to American parents in a forign country, is ok. However if he were able to run, then Yes I would vote for him. He takes as good care of peoples needs as possible. California, has more natural disasters than anyone. Yet they always get things fixed, people fed, and back to their lives A.S.A.P. He has been more succesful at this than any California Governor, ever. Regan was miserable at it.