This just in, from Mark Steyn via the new and improved Random Jottings:
Okay, Arnold’s not a Nazi. He was born in the Austrian town of Thal, but not until 1947, and thus was technically unable to join the Nazi Party no matter how much he may have wanted to. But he certainly has family ties to the Nazis. His wife’s grandfather, Joe Kennedy, was one of America’s most prominent Nazi sympathisers…Oh, wait. That’s not the Nazi family ties the Dems had in mind?…
Oops.
It’s one thing being a sympathizer, and another to be a member.
Wendy Leigh, in Arnold: An Unauthorized Biography
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0865532168/qid=1060615193/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-8142837-2774207?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
finds that in the Berlin Document Center, it is documented that Gustav Schwarzenegger was indeed a member of the Nazi party.
But no matter…if Arnold wins, then he’ll be “coming day and night.”…just like Bill Clinton.
The point is that Arnold is not now, nor has he ever been, a Nazi or a Nazi sympathizer.
Exactly. One can’t or shouldn’t be held responsible for what their family has done, only themselves.
Kinda proves the Joe Kennedy joke a dumb one.
(ooooh! how clever!)
35 Million Californians and the best they come up with to spearhead their coup is the son of Nazi.
This to oust a Veteran! You bulldog republicans
have to wonder. I mean what did you old guys do in the big one? You neocons are another story. I am sure you would be against the slogan “absolutely no college deferrment”. Oh no, not your li’l darlins! Ha! So what’s wrong with a guy who grew up in a household where Mexican Americans would be made into lampshades being governor of a state full of them? Can’t you imagine the dinner table conversation. “Did you beat many Jews to death dad?”
We are getting so used to having the neocons bent stick up our ass that when they twist it we can only believe their insistance that we did it to ourselves. Proudly hail the new California salute
Seig Heil!
give me a break you people! you want to think cuz a Rabbi says he’s kosher that the verdict is in?
i guess he avoided absorbing his father’s view on life…took none of his dad’s philosophies on race or hatred. i guess he just liked Waldheim because, well, he was such a nice, likable politician. he never felt a need to distance himself from Waldheim’s past as a “honorable” member of the “Wehrmacht” (=final solution) – in fact Arnold probably figured Kurt was just being scapegoated by those pesky jews. and in fact, I’m sure it’s just coincedence that his wife’s grandfather was probably the most prominent “nazi sympathizer” in America before WW2. sarcasm oozes from these smoke-signals…
and this nonsense about “he’s not a nazi” is such bunk! the term really means “member of the nazi party” – which obviously he’s not. but it goes without saying that practically nobody is a nazi since there are very few real nazi parties active in the world (and they have small memberships). however, i think the term, as used in modern times, is meant to represent somebody who adheres to some (not necessarily all) of the major concepts upheld by nazi parties throughout the world. these are that business and government can work together to determine what’s best for it’s people (rather than the people deciding), that there is a “one-solution fits all” which is driven by the majority, and that laws should be used primarily to promote and support business and to control the population.
using the above (loose) definitions you will find that certainly Arnold is not the only nazi here in America! certainly there are other people – some elected, some bought, some sold, who adhere to such philosophies…
though Americans like to deny it, facism and nazism embody core ideals and philosophies that have permeated our society throughout. Arnold would complement the picture perfectly!
give me a break you people! you want to think cuz a Rabbi says he’s kosher that the verdict is in?
i guess he avoided absorbing his father’s view on life…took none of his dad’s philosophies on race or hatred. i guess he just liked Waldheim because, well, he was such a nice, likable politician. he never felt a need to distance himself from Waldheim’s past as a “honorable” member of the “Wehrmacht” (=final solution) – in fact Arnold probably figured Kurt was just being scapegoated by those pesky jews. and in fact, I’m sure it’s just coincedence that his wife’s grandfather was probably the most prominent “nazi sympathizer” in America before WW2. sarcasm oozes from these smoke-signals…
and this nonsense about “he’s not a nazi” is such bunk! the term really means “member of the nazi party” – which obviously he’s not. but it goes without saying that practically nobody is a nazi since there are very few real nazi parties active in the world (and they have small memberships). however, i think the term, as used in modern times, is meant to represent somebody who adheres to some (not necessarily all) of the major concepts upheld by nazi parties throughout the world. these are that business and government can work together to determine what’s best for it’s people (rather than the people deciding), that there is a “one-solution fits all” which is driven by the majority, and that laws should be used primarily to promote and support business and to control the population.
using the above (loose) definitions you will find that certainly Arnold is not the only nazi here in America! certainly there are other people – some elected, some bought, some sold, who adhere to such philosophies…
though Americans like to deny it, facism and nazism embody core ideals and philosophies that have permeated our society throughout. Arnold would complement the picture perfectly!