Will Durst: Governor SpongeArnold SquarePecs

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For the tens and tens of you Golden Staters curious as to why Gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger refuses to address specific issues, quit your head scratching. I think we got ourselves an answer. Its good for the poll numbers.

Speaking at an "Ask Arnold" forum in San Diego, the Governator claimed, if elected, he would bring jobs back to the state. Which is important, because California has lost half of all jobs recently gone missing in the country, he said. When asked exactly how he plans to bring those jobs back, the Austrian Oak temporarily hypnotized the assembled with a blinding 4,000 kilowatt smile -- then got about as murky as the LA night sky seen through a dirty windshield during a stage 4 smog alert.

The problem is, according to the California Employment Development Department, the Golden State accounted for a mere 8.1% of the nation's new unemployment last year while employing about 11% of the country's work force. Our economy is actually healthier than the country as a whole, which means Davis has done a better job than all those incompetent governors who aren't being recalled. But of course, nobody besides Davis himself is going to point that out, and that probably won't work, since everything that comes out of his mouth is dismissed as self-serving crap. One of the minor pitfalls that tends to befall people who have earned a national reputation as "the Little Governor Who Cries Self-Serving Crap Not Just Often But Pretty Much All The Time."

As opposed to the sitting Governor, who can't get away with anything, even telling the truth, Schwarzenegger gets away with everything, or more accurately, saying absolutely nothing. Maybe it's the accent. Asked to specify three state regulations he'd dump as governor, Arnold declined, admitting, "there's a lot to be learned. I'm hungry for information. I'm like a sponge."

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