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Would Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger make a good President.

Asked by GAMBIT (3958points) February 12th, 2009
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dynamicduo's avatar

Hahaha, no. Look what he did with California, and that’s only one state.

He would look imposing as a President, but he has absolutely no qualifications to lead a country. In fact, he has negative qualifications: his experience with Cali and the fact that he’s not eligible due to his country of birth.

Bluefreedom's avatar

He would certainly be very hard to understand every time he gave a public speech. He even had trouble pronouncing California when he first became governor there.

As far as him being qualified to be president, I really don’t think he has the skills and knowledge needed to be competent for the job. Now that I think of it, some idiot from Texas wasn’t worth a damn either for the 8 years he was in Washington D.C.

blondie411's avatar

Well, he technically can’t be president since he wasn’t born in this country either.

benseven's avatar

I’m soooo not clicking a link entitled ‘Arnold Exposed’.

blondie411's avatar

He could pump it up for you!

dynamicduo's avatar

Oh come on benseven! You’ll miss out on a picture of Arnold doing a pose back in his bodybuilding days, which the authors of this website have cleverly used to show him performing the Nazi salute and conclude that he’s a Nazi! Classic!

cak's avatar

You mean the man that commutes in a plane, daily, because he won’t reside in the governor’s mansion? Nope.

I have a friend that is so stinking ready for him to be gone – yes, she lives in CA. The state that wants to issue (or has it been decided to do it – not just a proposal) IOUs for tax refunds…...the list is quite long – that state is in pretty bad standing!

No, thanks. I’d probably vote for PeeWee Herman, before him.

Mamradpivo's avatar

I don’t doubt that he’d be a somewhat effective president, but he’s way too rational to ever survive a Republican primary. To do that, you have to dellate the fundamentalists and he just won’t play that game. Besides, he’s not a natural born citizen, so he couldn’t be elected anyway.

benseven's avatar

OK, I did it, and was relieved there was not a ridiculous amount of nudity present.

I think the fact of the matter is even if a lot of that is bull or spin, 10% of it being true would be enough to convince me he shouldn’t be a Governor, let alone POTUS.

RandomMrdan's avatar

He would terminate terrorism one could say?

Dog's avatar

That would be just great.(sarcasm) Then I could get TWO IOUs as tax rebates to pin to the wall and stare at.

marinelife's avatar

The idea of this woman-grabbing, loudmouthed, brute in control of U.S. foreign policy terrorizes me!

Judi's avatar

I live in California and I can say ABSOLUTLY NO!

EmpressPixie's avatar

I came here to mention the same thing Blondie did—he’s not eligible. Having said that, I think he’d be a bad one so I’m glad he’s not eligible.

SherlockPoems's avatar

I think his coming from Austria and having such insight to different political forms… he, like our founding Fathers understands the importance of a Democratic Republic as opposed to other forms of government. Since he is a ‘naturalized citizen’ he is not able to run for the highest office in the land and I am conflicted about that. I find him intelligent and thoughtful. He came to this country to live in a free society… he knows what it’s like to live under oppression and I think that too is important in a President.

miasmom's avatar

I’m with @Judi on this one, I livein CA also and he can’t get our legislature to pass a budget, he is in no way ok to be president, I’m ready for a new governator.

Allie's avatar

I agree with @Judi and @miasmom. Not only can he not get it passed, but he was late even submitting the budget. It’d be kind of bad if he was submitting everything late as a president.

miasmom's avatar

Not only that, but we don’t have money in CA and he wants to cut education, while at the same time hiring a former legislature to do who knows what for over a 100,000 a year. Our state is so messed up! Thanks Arnold.

tinyfaery's avatar

Car registration fee hike. Can we Californians say recall?

laureth's avatar

He would violate the Constitution simply by being President. And in a position where one must defend the Constitution, that seems less than ideal.

But I’d also decline to vote for him, if he were eligible.

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