{"id":1669,"date":"2003-08-16T17:28:12","date_gmt":"2003-08-17T00:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/08\/im-voting-for-arnie\/"},"modified":"2003-08-16T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2003-08-17T00:28:12","slug":"im-voting-for-arnie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/16\/im-voting-for-arnie\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m voting for Arnie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tOK, this Salon interview that’s supposed to make Arnie look like a fascist nutjob<\/a> has won me over:<\/p>\n

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Salon person: What do you see as the most pressing problem in the inner city today? <\/p>\n

Arnie: The parenting problem. A lot of minorities have such a problem with the single-parent situation. The parents are the single most important influence on a child, followed by education and the peer group. The number of single parents in the U.S. has quadrupled since the ’60s, and there has also been an increase in violence and school shootings. All that stuff has increased largely because of a lack of parenting, and many households only have one biological parent — so many of them are fatherless. It really creates a big problem. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more about Arnie on women, families, and stuff that’s supposed to appeal to the left in Robert Salladay’s summary<\/a> in the Frisco paper:<\/p>\n

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In the movie “Total Recall,” Schwarzenegger puts a bullet through the head of his on-screen wife, who is trying to kill him as well, and says without remorse: “Consider that a divorce.” <\/p>\n

The line was outrageous enough to be included in a 1996 documentary about domestic violence, “No Safe Place.” It was one of many controversial comments the macho, cigar-chomping actor has made, both on screen and off, about women. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fact that the woman in Total Recall<\/i> was trying to kill Arnie’s character isn’t important, of course, because it’s always wrong to hit a girl. I like this guy better the more I learn about him.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, this Salon interview that’s supposed to make Arnie look like a fascist nutjob has won me over: Salon person: What do you see as the most pressing problem in the inner city today? Arnie: The parenting problem. A lot of minorities have such a problem with the single-parent situation. The parents are the single … Continue reading “I’m voting for Arnie”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-qV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}