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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
these attempts to get the historical record right are just petty personal attacks aimed at distracting voters from the issues. who cares if there really were tanks there or not? the fact is that that is the way arnold remembers it and personal recollections should not be questioned when they are delivered by a high-profile politician.
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Should not be questioned!? That is a tremendous amount of faith you have in the politicians who run this country. Are their other aspects of politics that should not be questioned? In fact, why question at all? If Arnold says he saw a TANK, which I think any of us would remember seeing as a kid, espeically in that place and time, and then historians say "Well, no, you couldn't have possibly seen a tank for these reasons: A, B and C." So that the more than likely truth of the matter was that there was not tank at all and that Arnold just lied through his capped teeth about something, why is that not both insulting and bush league? That's like me say running for governer of California and saying, "I grew up in the heat of gang warfare in Los Angeles County so I understand how to abate the problem of violent crime." When the truth of the matter is that, while I did grow up in LA County, I couldn't have been further away from gang warfare growing up in the Santa Clarita Valley, a lilly white suburb! Would you want me to be governer if I was elected to be "tough on crime" on the strength of claims like that? Hell no! And that's why it matters when politicians lie and that's why that should not be acceptable, even when you really like what they are saying because it makes you look reallly good. Its political sleeze either way, you just have a decision as to whether or not you're covered in it.