RazorbackTX
Sep 1 2004, 10:21 AM
Last night in his speech Schwarzenegger said:
"I finally arrived here in 1968. What a special day it was. I remember I arrived here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of determination, full of desire.
The presidential campaign was in full swing. I remember watching the Nixon-Humphrey presidential race on TV. A friend of mine who spoke German and English translated translated for me. I heard Humphrey saying things that sounded like socialism, which I had just left.
But then I heard Nixon speak. Then I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military."
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Guess what - There was no presidential debate in that election. Nixon never debated Humphrey.
I guess his comments (lies) were "taken out of context."
OlympicFan
Sep 1 2004, 12:09 PM
From today's San Jose Mercury News:
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Worth a debate? CNN misquotes Schwarzenegger on '68 remarks
By the Mercury News
Did he say it, or didn't he?
According to the Associated Press and guests on CNN's ``Larry King Live'' show, during his Tuesday night speech before the Republican National Convention, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he decided to become a Republican after watching Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon debate in the 1968 presidential election.
``Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air,'' Schwarzenegger said.
There's only one thing wrong -- Nixon never debated Humphrey.
According to the prepared text of Schwarzenegger's speech the passage was written, ``I remember watching the Nixon-Humphrey presidential race on TV . . .''
Mercury News reporter Jim Puzzanghera, who was in Madison Square Garden during Schwarzenegger's address and who taped the speech, said after reviewing the audiotape that the governor said ``race'' not ``debate.''
[ September 01, 2004, 02:45 PM: Message edited by: OlympicFan ]
aquaman
Sep 1 2004, 01:30 PM
Maybe we could get Teresa to show Arnold what should happen to reporters who misquote?
theodoresdaddy
Sep 1 2004, 01:55 PM
didn't he admit to smoking pot-maybe he was too stoned to remember
fantomas
Sep 1 2004, 01:57 PM
A minor quibble. Trashing Hubert Humphrey, however, is the more despicable thing. His record of public service as a U.S. Senator and Vice President, and his early support of civil rights and equality, as far back as 1948, mark one of the finest examples of a courageous governmental official that we have.
Herr Gropenführer also said W inherited a recession, when economists on BOTH SIDES now say that in fact, the recession started AFTER W TOOK OFFICE. But when does the truth ever matter to serial groping GOPers like Ahnold?
I'm not really an Arnold fan, but to be fair he says he saw the race, not the debate. Maybe he just means that he saw speeches by both men on TV during the campaign.
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