What? No Arnold thread?

I wonder how Orin Hatch's constitutional amendment to allow Arnold to run for prez is coming along.

He made three horrendous mistakes: 1. He had an affair (this is betrayal enough, but he made it worse by choosing to have it with a household staff member) 2. He produced a child by this woman. 3. He didn't tell his wife until he was out of office as governator, although I find it rather naive of Maria to have been totally aware that something was amiss. He's a jerk. Quel suprise.

I follow the story (stories, as they are accumulating) as he was something of a home town boy for us in Venice/Santa Monica. I ran into him, literally, once, as I was going into a bakery or similar place on Main Street.

Never been a fan, myself; didn't like the recall in CA but there were more votes tallied on his side.

Yeah, I saw him in person, too, at the Rose Bowl flea market. No memory of who he was with but the timing would've been about right!! (~13-14 years ago.)

I'm pretty amazed that it remained under wraps in this day and age. Andrew Sullivan posted something suggesting that Ahnold basically bought off the tabloids:

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/05/how-did-arnold-get-away-with-it-ctd.html

The question isn't so much 'how', Soz, as 'why'. Arnold is a conservative and as such, one of his cardinal values would have to be 'honesty'.

Aren't you at all interested in whether Tico will dump his avatar? Maybe he'll just go for a slightly less smug Arnold.

From what I've read.. ta da.. there seem to be a possible three women who might have had a 'love child' with him, so far anyway. One whose child had a dna test thus clearing A.S.; one whose child is fourteen now (the maid who retired or was let go this year), and someone who was in the household employ whose child is ten. Perhaps the second and third of those is the same woman. Rolls eyes.

Usually I don't give a hoot about this sort of stuff, but, just as with OJ, the situation happened in my old immediate neighborhood. The OJ related murder occurred on our not very long Brentwood street, though I'd sold my parents' house by then; the present house of the Schwarzeneggers' is also not very far from that old house of ours.

A.S.'s office prior to the governorship was right near the boundary of Venice and Santa Monica (thus my walking into him, or nearly so, as he walked out of a store) - which was something like a dozen blocks from my own later house.

Well, hey. Even the recent Lindsay Lohan extravaganza/jewelry mishap occurred something like two blocks from my first art gallery (back then, in a crummy funky neighborhood).. our place had seven broken windows when we rented it.

Given my lack of enthusiasm for these particular people I find myself bemused that I tend to read about this stuff for the connection to "place".

I''ll be back.

What's the story behind this story? Why is Arnold "cleaning" up his act? After so many years of keeping a secret, I don't believe for a second that his conscience dictated that he 'fess up. He's not dying; he has to yet to make a movie; that leaves his politics. Fishy...

Let see a large percents of our founding fathers was similar jerks.

Franklin brought home an infant boy that he informed his wife was his for her to help raised. History never found out who was the mother of the boy.

Hamilton had an affair with a married woman when he was the first secretary of Treasury and her husband ended up blackmailing him.

Jefferson father children on his dead wife half sister who was one of his slaves.

I think others will come out of the woodwork. He was a player before marriage, and was suspected to be a player during. I wonder if he was being blackmailed or something. Why now?

If Shriver would have stayed with him, weathering the "storm" - then this would have died down. But her leaving and "re-discoveriing" herself, i.e. She's buddying up with Oprah - takes this to another level. She's going to get more attention than this entire situation deserves.