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August 11, 2003 RECALL UDPATE....133? 155? 158? The LA Times reports today that the number of candidates appears to be nearing 200. Stay tuned for official results! Elsewhere, the Times reports that Schwarzenegger invited Time and Newsweek to photograph him, but "refused to talk to their reporters." Apparently it didn't do him any harm since both magazines splashed him all over their covers this week. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this, but I would have thought that both magazines had (barely) enough integrity left to refuse to run a cover story on a politician unless he agreed to talk to them. I guess not. You can run, Arnold, but you can't hide. You're going to have to start answering questions one of these days. Posted by Kevin Drum at August 11, 2003 08:46 AM | TrackBackComments
Yes, but that might not be until after the election. Posted by: Barry at August 11, 2003 08:51 AM | PERMALINKYikes, Barry. I had the same thought in the same words. :) Posted by: Sebastian Holsclaw at August 11, 2003 08:52 AM | PERMALINKOh sh*t. If you're eating popcorn right now, we're in for a world of strange :) Posted by: Barry at August 11, 2003 08:53 AM | PERMALINKWhat makes you think anyone's going to pay attention to his answers? They're voting for The Terminator, not for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Posted by: englishprofessor at August 11, 2003 08:54 AM | PERMALINKDoes it make me an Elitist East Coaster if i conclude, when Arnold is elected, that Californians are stupid? Posted by: ChrisL at August 11, 2003 08:56 AM | PERMALINKPerhaps they should pose the questions in the original German. Posted by: Sven at August 11, 2003 08:57 AM | PERMALINKDoes it make me an Elitist East Coaster if i conclude, when Arnold is elected, that Californians are stupid? Most of us came to that conclusion when the Democrats and Republicans came up with Gray Davis and Bill Simon as the choices for the state. Posted by: John Cole at August 11, 2003 09:01 AM | PERMALINKDoes it make me an Elitist East Coaster if i conclude, when Arnold is elected, that Californians are stupid? Not necessarily, since he could conceivably be elected with a fairly small percentage of the vote. I say we set the threshold at 40%. Posted by: strannix at August 11, 2003 09:08 AM | PERMALINKFrom Reagan to Davis to potentially Schwarzenegger, California has an innate talent for being able to cull the worst possible politicians from the largest possible pool. Posted by: jesse at August 11, 2003 09:12 AM | PERMALINKUntil the weekend I really didn't think that you good Californians were actually going to elect Arnold. But after watching Cruz Bustamante on Sunday, I now suspect we're gonna be seeing Terminator 4:The Recall coming to a theater near you on October 7. Gotta run out and get popcorn. Posted by: spc67 at August 11, 2003 09:15 AM | PERMALINKHe can't hide? Really? Give him 54 days, Mr. Drum. I should use that line every day for 20 years, sir. Put something off long enough and people will forget it with no fresh news. You give the Bush felons the benefit of the doubt with unbelievable amounts of time, yet demand that Arnie pony up immediately. There's nothing "extremely puzzling" about why people don't care about wmd, Mr. Drum. It's because individuals let them get away with explaining nothing for months at a time, by which time the news agenda has completely changed. Arnie has to be a real politician, yet Bush can be the crooked, lazy liar. Give him 54 days, Mr. Drum, and Arnie will look mighty good. No problem. Posted by: symbiosis at August 11, 2003 09:17 AM | PERMALINKSymbiosis: wake up on the wrong side of the bed today? I'm sure my conservative readers are immensely amused that you are under the impression that I've been going easy on George Bush over the WMD issue. Have you been reading anything I've written over the past two months? Posted by: Kevin Drum at August 11, 2003 09:31 AM | PERMALINKPlease excuse me, sir. I'm one of those individuals who will never give Bush a microsecond of the doubt, all because of Bush vs. Gore. I childishly will not forget those who do. Why do you think I show up here every day? Because my brain isn't remotely close to being in your league, and I need the direction and the wisdom. Posted by: symbiosis at August 11, 2003 09:36 AM | PERMALINKRelated to this, will someone please tell CNN and MSNBC that *nobody cares* to see live coverage of every non-speech the Terminator gives? Let me know when he says something of value or substance. Until then, please stop wasting your airtime with hours of live coverage of his latest "news" conference … go back to reporting the News® that's sanctioned by those that at least already have muscled their way into power. Posted by: kormal at August 11, 2003 09:39 AM | PERMALINKWhy not? Running and hiding is a tactic that has work well for Bush? Of course it's harder to get away with this tactic in state government BUT if he can do this non-answer game for the next 60 days while maintaining at least a little higher poll rate by simply playing the Terminated card, who knows? Posted by: Cheryl at August 11, 2003 09:44 AM | PERMALINK"You can run, Arnold, but you can't hide. You're going to have to start answering questions one of these days." Bush has avoided it for 3 years, and didn't get any hard questions before his election. The media are going to be covering him from their knees. I would think they'd also like the prospect of covering an Arnie governorship. 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Posted by: Mimikatz at August 11, 2003 10:18 AM | PERMALINKAdd me to the list of folks who think it's entirely possible for him to continue to hide behind platitudes and vague rhetoric. That doesn't mean it will happen that way; just that it's possible. If his opponents press him, if the media organizations press him, if his polls start dropping, then he may very well have to actually say something. Until then, it's in his best interest to not do so and I believe that's precisely what he will do. Posted by: PaulB at August 11, 2003 10:46 AM | PERMALINKCount me in the " amused " column. You can be critical or even highly critical of a politician's position while not making, for example, nonsensical analogies to the Third Reich. Avoiding the ridiculous or the unreasonable while constructing an argument is not the same as giving someone a " pass ". 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