Schwarzenegger backtracks on McCain, environment

[DogPoundPup]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" and defended GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain as "the real deal on the environment." The governor made his comments only days after he said the Arizona senator's call for lifting the federal ban on offshore oil drilling was "blowing smoke."

"I'm very proud of him. I'm 100 percent behind him," he told "Meet the Presss" moderator Tom Brokaw in an interview done earlier last week at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley.

Schwarzenegger's warm words and defense of McCain on environmental issues appeared at odds to his comments Friday at a climate change meeting in Florida, where he delivered a jab at McCain's environmental plans. Citing a list of proposals, including ending the ban on offshore oil drilling, nuclear power and biofuels - McCain supports them all - he told the audience "anyone who tells you that this will bring down our gas prices immediately or anytime soon is blowing smoke."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/29/MNDB11H66C.DTL

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. He got a phone call from somebody.

Probably KKKarl Rove, McLame's "unofficial" adviser.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Even big arms can be twisted..................

[Journeyman]

3. The headline seems chronologically incorrect. . .

The article says the MTP interview was done "earlier last week" in California, while Schwarzenegger's criticism of McCain was delivered on Friday at a conference in Florida.

So which came first?

[DogPoundPup]

7. Huh? the article says Schwarzenegger appeared on MTP "today"

>>>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" and defended GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain <<<

[Journeyman]

10. Yes, "in an interview done earlier last week at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley". . .

So his support of McCain, as shown in a tape on Sunday's "Meet the Press,' dates from earlier last week, while his criticism was delivered at the end of the week in the conference in Florida.

So I'll ask again -- in hopes you'll read the article -- which came first?

[DogPoundPup]

14. Sorry ... I missed that ... my mouth was acting like it wanted to puke

when I read that part so I went to the next paragraph. I'm guessing or ass-uming the writer of the article is saying Tues. Swartzy was for him, then Friday he was against him.

[Jakes Progress]

4. republicans never lose a vote by

lying out of both sides of their mouth at once. Their supporters expect them to. They can flip-flop and say whatever they think is needed to win and their voters think they are smart for doing so.

[kestrel91316]

5. What a blowhard TOOL. I am so embarrassed he is my governor.

[DogPoundPup]

8. I have never gotten over how that happened..

and now the massively expensive ENRON game is uncovered and revealed and still swartz is still IN?

HOW CAN IT BE?

[shanti]

11. he's not MY governor

just like * is not MY president. how much longer until he's out??? it can't come soon enough!

[Zorra]

6. Never. Ever. Trust. A. Republican.

Bunch of malicious forked tongued sociopaths.

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

9. Is Arnold looking for a VP spot?

I don't doubt it, specially after this flip flop.

[mitchtv]

12. not eligible

foreign born

[Cleita]

15. Not yet.

He has a group who back him working in the shadows to get an amendment passed to our Constitution so he can run. However, I hope it backfires on him. There are many of us who are born Americans but born in a foreign country of American parents who can't run for President. I hope if this amendment is ever passed that every person barred from the Presidency runs against him if he tries to run.

[Frank Cannon]

20. Actually, you can run for President if you want to

The actual requirement is that you are a natural-born citizen. As the offspring of American parents, you qualify no matter where you were born. Arnold, however, does not.

And the chances of an Amendment being ratified to change that requirement are slim to none, given the amount of racism and xenophobia in this country.

[Cleita]

13. LOL!

So much for the Arnold is really liberal crowd, and that he's secretly backing Obama. Arnold knows when it is politically safe for him to pretend to be a liberal. He is very much a part of the neo-con corporatist, Republican Party in reality. He is no better than Bush and McBush.

[bluesmail]

16. I am looking forward to the day we have a "Recall Vote'

on the Gropenator for the exact thing 'they' brought Grey Davis down with. OK I'm dreaming, but as long as there is a State Budget Crisis I'm yelling RECALL

[tanyev]

21. Total Recall!

[McCamy Taylor]

17. They reminded him that he was once the "Enron" candidate

[Bette Noir]

18. Swarzenegger is the most cowardly man in government.

He changes positions at light speed.

[Oleladylib]

19. How did Maria Schriver get tangled up with this guy.