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Schwarzenegger’s Run is A Political Joke

Leave it to a movie star to come up with a stunning plot. On August 6, 56 year old Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger had surprised us all by announcing that he is putting himself in the political run for Governor of California. As this political race goes into full throttle, the biggest question is, can he lead enough Californians into believing that he is the only serious person to rescue the state from an unprecedented financial crisis and place it back at least on a path to its former glory? With Californians already feeling he is not suitable enough to be their governor, Schwarzenegger himself not seeming to take this political run seriously, and a bizarre past that would have people question his credibility, I do not believe that he will.
In a recent Los Angeles Times periodical, a poll found that 53 percent of registered voters were not inclined to vote for him. Of course, Schwarzenegger is an amateur politicia...

Posted by: Gelinde Cobbs

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