Total Recall (Schwarzenegger's father was Nazi Stormtrooper)

[UpInArms]

http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/03/46/news-brennan.php

excerpt:

As impressive as Darrell Issa’s do-for-yourself spirit is, I’m not sure he has the discipline to restore order in Sacramento. True, Issa did turn a longtime interest in car theft into a thriving car-alarm business, but Arnold Schwarzenegger has done something far more difficult. Arnold has taken a thick Austrian accent and the acting abilities of a robot, and parlayed those handicaps into a successful movie career playing a robot with a thick Austrian accent. How? In a word, discipline. In interviews for his latest robot-with-an- accent movie, Arnold credits his late father with instilling in him the discipline needed to succeed at any task, robot-related or otherwise. And Arnold’s father, Gustav, knew discipline: say what you will about the Nazis, but they were a disciplined bunch. According to documents in the Austrian State Archives, Arnold’s father wasn’t just a Nazi party member; he also joined both the stormtroopers and the army, reaching the rank of sergeant major in the military police. Even though Arnold says he didn’t know any of this until after his father was dead, imagine the sort of discipline a Nazi MP can pass on to his son. Thanks to the recall, we might get a taste of such discipline in Sacramento.

Fortunately, a Nazi in the family is no drawback in today’s Republican party. After all, when President Bush invokes the noble sacrifices of the "Greatest Generation," no one is rude enough to mention his grandfather Prescott. No one except James Ridgeway of the Village Voice (the mother rag to this rag), who noted that during WWII: "Under the Trading With the Enemy Act, officials seized Bush stockholdings, charging that ‘huge sections of Prescott Bush’s empire had been operated on behalf of Nazi Germany and had greatly assisted the German war effort.’"

[Qutzupalotl]

1. Interesting.

Schwarzenegger has lately been hinting he won't run for governor. Think there's a connection between that and this coming out?

[qandnotq]

2. whatever

i don't see how his father's past is relevant.

[duvinnie]

3. and I dont see

how is father's past is irrelevant either. How is it possible
for a son to have learnt only "good" values from a father
who was a stormtrooper, for Gosh-sakes? Is Arnold going ot
say that his dad never discussed his worldview with him?
I already dislike this man...he will have a LOT of talking
to do before people if he wants their vote.

[beanball]

4. "apples don't fall far from the tree"

Wake up America,morning is here and you are still are asleep.

[UpInArms]

5. and I suppose that * father's past is

irrelevant also?

[qandnotq]

8. the difference

is that * is POTUS because of his father's influence & connections. Bush II is really just a rehash of Bush I. In contrast, Arnold is a self-made man. His father has nothing to do with Arnold's success.

Did you ever disagree with your parents? Or did you just uncritically lap up everything they fed you? My parents are conservative christian republicans. But, that doesn't make me one.

I can scarcely believe that supposed liberals & tolerant people would try to hold the son responsible for the beliefs of the father. It's a pure smear tactic. And you would probably be outraged if the same tactic were applied to a Democrat.

[NickDanger]

6. Nice smear

eom

[whirlygigspin]

7. oh sure, blame the parents

:crazy:

[zizzer]

9. The sins of the father

Have nothing to do with thsins of the son. And since the sins of the son are enough why does this matter?

Zizzer

[pfitz59]

10. Arnold is self-made!

Far cry from the sock-puppet inhabiting the White House.

[olmy]

11. Well actually...pharmaceutically enhanced.

[JackSwift]

12. Arnold is not a Nazi, was not,

and this is an unfair smear.

[tlb]

13. Cheap shot.

If this is indicative of the pro-Davis approach , maybe it's for the best he IS recalled.

[olmy]

14. Cheap? I think he got a fair amount of money for the gay pics.

At least it was in 1976. I think the hustling of some gay "sponsors" paid off some light bills also.

Who cares about what his dad did?

[RedCloud]

15. Look at Grandpappy Bush

Got rich off Auschwitz death camp labor and two of his progeny hijacked the US presidency!

One with the October Surprise, the other with rigged voting restrictions.

[RedCloud]

16. Arnold married into the Kennedy clan.

And he's a conservative? Talk about your irony there. Maybe he would have a governshi* of one-liners which is about all most freepers invading here can withstand!

AWL BE BACH!