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August 11, 2003

Tongue-tied Arnie Takes Hits From Left and Right

Tongue-tied Arnie Takes Hits From Left and Right
Guardian Newspapers Limited

Sunday 10 August 2003

Hasta la vista to the political honeymoon. Four days after after his gubernatorial campaign in California opened to better reviews than any of his films ever did, Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday came face to face with political reality when he was attacked from the left for being too naive and from the right for being too liberal.

The 56-year-old actor embarked on a quick-fire round of TV interviews aimed at capitalising on his already stratospheric ratings in the campaign to take the most powerful office in the nation's biggest state - Governor of California.

But instead of momentum the appearances produced a succession of awkward moments as he was asked to explain his political views.

Pressed on a range of issue that are certain to feature prominently in the run-up to the vote on 7 October - gay marriage, health services, the fiscal crisis facing California - Schwarzenegger was forced to deny a policy statement attributed to his staff or revert to the time-honoured formula of the candidate under pressure: 'I don't want to go into that right now.'

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...a spokesman for the Democratic Party, who urged the media to scrutinise Schwarzenegger's political record more closely.

The media took his advice and within a couple of hours turned up the embarrassing allegation that the actor had voted in only two of the last eight statewide elections.

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Read It Rating: 6
Left/Right Rating: 0
Freedom Rating: 2
Learning Percentage: 55%

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