Geroge Skelton: Governor Doesn't Get to Write the Whole Script

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From the Los Angeles Times
Dated Thursday May 12

Capitol Journal:
In New Role, Governor Doesn't Get to Write the Whole Script
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agrees with William Shakespeare that "all the world's a stage." But he seems to part from the Bard's next line: "And all the men and women merely players."
By Gerorge Skelton

Schwarzenegger clearly views California politics as a stage. But, more than that, he sees it as a sort of Hollywood movie knockoff with a script casting him as the superhero. Definitely not a mere player.

The governor has been talking that way lately.

In the past, Schwarzenegger has told me that I sometimes take his utterances too seriously. So perhaps his latest self-revealing comments should be ignored.

Naw. They say too much about him.

Let me first back up: Last summer, when he was calling legislators "girlie men," and I wrote that this language was unbecoming a governor — especially one professing a desire "to bring people together" — Schwarzenegger cautioned me: "Don't take it seriously. It's just a good line."

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