The Buzz: Governor admits he's knee-deep in religion

[realFedUp]

(oy)

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/ca/the_buzz/story/13057714p-13903382c.html

The Buzz: Governor admits he's knee-deep in religion

Published 2:15 am PDT Monday, June 13, 2005
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't talk about religion much, and he has said it doesn't influence his political decisions. But at the annual California Prayer Breakfast last week in Sacramento, he made an exception.
He told the crowd about kneeling on the floor of a City Hall office in Fresno to pray with Mayor Alan Autry in 2002, when Schwarzenegger was pushing his initiative for after-school programs.

"He says, 'Let's kneel down and let's ask the Lord to help us,' " Schwarzenegger recalled. "So I slowly kneeled down, and now he started praying, started praying for after-school programs, started praying for our children.

"I started praying, 'I hope no one comes through this door right now. Please, God, don't make someone come through this door right now and see us two kneeling here on the floor, on this hardwood floor.' "

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[NAO]

1. "...if they saw us, I would have to TERMINATE them."

[Fridays Child]

2. Cute story, Arnie. And it helped you skate right past a declaration...

...of your own religious conviction (or lack thereof), didn't it? But you needn't worry, anyway, because rabid fundies hear what they want to hear. So, as far as they're concerned, you're plenty religious enough. Besides, what really counts is that Bush has looked into your heart and found it to be just like his--a blackened, Nazi lump.

[Oversea Visitor]

3. Bush friend

Governor, See chose bad friend end up get butt kick
Now at 31% soon get the boot
Want try talk to god, me say he got no time
too busy and sad with all the dying in middle east
You on you own

[catzies]

4. Desperate is as desperate does. This is ridiculously transparent

even for the craven GOP. :eyes:

[realFedUp]

5. even for an actor also....

maybe we've just gotten too smart
or cynical for these public relation's
playacting.

[mitchtv]

6. Actor? only in the loosest meaning

of the word

[Kerrytravelers]

7. Actor?

:rofl:

[bemildred]

8. Yeah, I can hardly wait for the "prayer-op" with Jimmy Swaggart. nt

[bliss_eternal]

9. or the photo op

of him in the waters of the Mississippi being Baptised and "Born again." He's so gross!

[Sequoia]

10. "If it worked for the prez, it'll work for me"

[davidinalameda]

11. was he trying to be funny

I don't understand

:shrug:

[MaryBear]

13. Me, neither, dwickham.

It sounds more like poking fun at religion and himself, and possibly something that would put off fundies rather than rally them to him.

[XemaSab]

12. Alan Autry

is a moran.

Another actor-turned-politician, at least he knows that the fundies are his base.

[pelagius]

14. Arnold and Maria are members...

...of a very fashionable (and generally liberal!) Catholic parish in the People's Republic of Santa Monica. One of my correspondents reports seeing them at Mass fairly regularly prior to his stint as Governator.

[MisterP]

15. are biceps a religion?