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Ahnold's doing such a great job. He'll rule that mound of ashes just fine.
2003-11-05 at 3:18 p.m.
Okay... due to MUCH asking... or okay, one person, but hey, I'm not picky. You'll get treated to the extra-special Editorial I wrote for my school newspaper. Because that's what we Editors do. We torial.
Ahahahem. And without further... well, y'know. Here we are. Take into account that I'm only 14, and if I misinterpreted or just plain made a complete mess of the topic I was trying to discuss... well, get over it.
Extra Special Editorial
So. It is officially...well, official: Mr. Ex-Universe has begun his attempt to become Mr. Universe once again. By taking over the universe. Or maybe just "Cahleefornya."
Just kidding. Arnold Schwarzenegger (A/N: Took me FOREVER to spell that right) can't go any further in his ascent to power, because he isn't an American-born citizen. Nope, our little bodybuilder is Austrian, and our Constitution says pretty clearly that he can't hope to be president.
But governor of California seems to be a high enough title for him.
Now, California has been in a dismal state for quite a few of the past years, and their past governor (Gray Davis), is blamed for the awful position they have been in with taxes and other problems that seem to be innumerable. Many people stayed in support of him, despite the obvious problems that were still going on, but not enough, apparently.
The man who had barely 20 lines in The Terminator is now going to be expected to make speeches on a regular basis. He can't even truly pronounce the name of the state well.
And that is where myt only real fault lies with Arnie.
No, no, not the accent. The accent's fine. It's in the speeches, folks. He seems like a good-hearted man, and the promises he made for the state of California seem all well and good, but where are his actual plans? His speeches made fantastic promises, the ones that all the voters were longing to hear, but... they seemed empty. He had little to back them up with.
Man Californians didn't need a strategy for them to jump on the bandwagon and vote on their cinematic hero. No matter what the intent, whether to support their favorite actor, or to get Gray Davis out of office, the people have made their decision.
Now, this isn't the first time we've had an actor in office. Ronal Reagan was undoubtedly known for an acting credit or two of his own. But, at the end of the day, he was our president, and an actor. Not an actor, and, oh yeah, president, too.
Arnold will never live down his role as the Terminator, and nobody expects him to. It's what got him into office, isn't it?
I honestly don't know how good of a politician he truly is, and I've heard reports that his vice-governor is an excellent choice, but I still have trouble processing the fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger is California's new governor.
He's just... Ahnold.
I think this display of the population's tendency to be swayed by mass recognition shows how little thoguht goes into everything we do these days. Life is too short to stop and think. Or so the public would have us believe.
To quote a book that many of us are reading, Tale of Two Cities, the people are beginning to fall back on the ancient custom of believing that "Whatever is, is right."
We believe in what we know, and this is a flaw with society. New things are, by defnition, not what we've always been used to.
Seeing Arnold spread his wings as a politician could prove to be very inspiring, or very embarrassing, and his "reign" could possibly terminate any hipe California has of recovering from the failing tax systems.
We can only hope that Arnold has had enough of a break from his Terminating ways to learn to help rebuild a state that desperately needs it.
Yeah. There it is. All the pride and glory of my writing. And it's written a lot like this diary! Huh! Go figure!
Did anyone else see that Ben Moody dropped out of Evanescence? Yeah. That's not cool, man. I liked him.
But whatever. I'll survive. It's not that big of a deal. They can survive with a different guitarist. A different vocalist would send them spiraling into a place of bunnies. That's not a nice place, my friends. Just check out my ring.
Okay. I'm done! And there was much rejoicing! Yaaay.
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