Reply #13: Arnolds advice to grads. "Work like hell and marry a Kennedy". [View All]

[Dr.Phool]

When Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on The Tonight Show on Tuesday, he joked with Jay Leno about advice he had given in a recent address to students at the University of Southern California. “I told them to work like hell and marry a Kennedy,” he said, to laughter and applause.

The studio audience loved Mr Schwarzenegger, who is married to Maria Shriver, John F. Kennedy’s niece. Making his 25th appearance on the show, he was in his element sparring with Mr Leno, who poked fun at the California governor’s Austrian accent.

But he has had little to laugh about away from the television studio. In the past two weeks the former movie star has had to deal with the biggest crisis of his short political career after voters in a “special election” spurned revenue-raising measures he hoped would avert financial disaster.

Hailed as the state’s saviour when he replaced Gray Davis, who was ousted in 2003, Mr Schwarzenegger’s poll ratings have reached their lowest ever. Amid a 29 per cent fall in tax revenues since last September, the state faces a budget deficit this year of $24bn (£15bn, €17bn) and the Republican governor is threatening to take a Conan the Barbarian-style sword to spending on health, education and other vital public services. “The people have spoken,” he says in a Financial Times interview. “We have to live within our means.”

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b7139fa2-4c76-11de-a6c5-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

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You'd think they'd quit electing these dickwad Republican actors out there.

In the mean time, anybody know any Kennedy's I can hook up with? She doesn't even have to be hot.