Schwarzenegger at Ohio Rally about socialism is full of crap

[LiberalFighter]

Schwarzenegger stated "The reason he left Austria for the United States was to escape the socialism that engulfed Europe."

He wasn't thinking about socialism when he was 21 years old at the time he moved to the US.

[polichick]

1. How can Maria stand his sorry ass? And how could she pollute that good Dem blood line! :)

[HughBeaumont]

2. Whutta crocka horeshite.

http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004-2_archives/000116.html

"It's a fact -- as a child he could not have seen a Soviet tank in Styria," the southeastern province where Schwarzenegger was born and raised, historian Stefan Karner told the Vienna newspaper Kurier.

Schwarzenegger, now a naturalized U.S. citizen, was born on July 30, 1947, when Styria and the neighboring province of Carinthia belonged to the British zone. At the time, postwar Austria was occupied by the four wartime allies, which also included the United States, the Soviet Union and France.

The Soviets already had left Styria in July 1945, less than three months after the end of the war, Karner noted.

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I can't let pass Schwarzenegger's smarmy implication that postwar socialism, to whatever extent it was practiced in Austria, was the legacy of Soviet occupation. There was and remains a big difference between European-style socialism and communism. The former boasts a long and proud tradition of anticommunism. That would have been especially true in Austria, where every chancellor between 1945 and 1970 was a conservative. The characteristic vice of Austrian conservatism isn't softness on communism. It's softness on Nazism.

[mrcheerful]

3. No kidding he was thinking $$$$$$$ and american women for his pleasure.

I read his bio, no where in it did he say a thing about socialism, btw, wasn't he also trying to escape from his father being a Nazi? It's been years since I read Arnies bio.