{"id":10529,"date":"2009-11-19T02:24:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T02:24:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-19T02:24:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T02:24:35","slug":"arnold-is-done-with-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/19\/arnold-is-done-with-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold is Done with Politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll believe it when I see it, but Arnold said today that he&#8217;s done with elective politics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won&#8217;t say what his plans are when his term expires next year, but he won&#8217;t be running for another office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I have never labeled myself as a politician, so I am not going to run for anything else,&#8221; Schwarzenegger told reporters in Milan on Tuesday. &nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2009\/11\/18\/world\/AP-EU-Schwarzenegger-Europe.html?_r=2\">NY Times 11\/18\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To say Arnold Schwarzenegger was a one-off would be quite the understatement. There will never be another leader with quite that mix of showmanship and bravado, brinksmanship and wrong-headedness, inconsistency and doggedness. You never quite grasp where you are going with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and this is entirely intentional.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry, Meg Whitman will spend $150 Million to prove that she&#8217;s Arnold 2.0, way better than the first incarnation of a rich Republican come to save us from ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll believe it when I see it, but Arnold said today that he&#8217;s done with elective politics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won&#8217;t say what his plans are when his term expires next year, but he won&#8217;t be running for another office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I have never labeled myself as a politician, so I am not going to run for anything else,&#8221; Schwarzenegger told reporters in Milan on Tuesday. &nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2009\/11\/18\/world\/AP-EU-Schwarzenegger-Europe.html?_r=2\">NY Times 11\/18\/09<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To say Arnold Schwarzenegger was a one-off would be quite the understatement. There will never be another leader with quite that mix of showmanship and bravado, brinksmanship and wrong-headedness, inconsistency and doggedness. You never quite grasp where you are going with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and this is entirely intentional.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry, Meg Whitman will spend $150 Million to prove that she&#8217;s Arnold 2.0, way better than the first incarnation of a rich Republican come to save us from ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2JP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}