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I don't know what Arnold's position is on anything, much less fiscal policy. He hasn't said anything and the only thing we know down here has come from either the media or his spokespeople.
I don't understand why he's running as a man of and for the people but he won't come out and talk to us. Arianna is having a free pizza meet and greet tomorrow night. She is very intelligent and actually did pull herself up by the bootstraps.
Arnold didn't come over here as a poor immigrant as the media seems to imply. He was a sponsored body builder.
Both he and Arianna literally rose to the top on their own merits:
"The details of Arianna's young life are not well-documented, but she was born Arianna Stassinopoulos in Greece on July 15, 1950, the elder of two daughters, lived in Athens, and studied comparative religions at age 16 at Shantiniketan University near Calcutta. Her mother, Elli, served in the Greek resistance against the Nazis. But Elli couldn't stomach the then-insurgent Greek Communists either, impressing on Arianna a lifelong mistrust of totalitarian ideologies and urging her to read Greek mythology. Arianna's father, Constantine, edited a resistance newspaper, Paron, was interned in a Nazi concentration camp, and after the war started a raft of publishing enterprises, none of them overly successful. After separating from him, Elli took Arianna, then 16, and her younger sister, Agapi (author of "Conversations with the Goddesses"), to England.
Entering Cambridge on a scholarship, Arianna basically took the place by storm with her good looks and blazing intellect. She studied Keynesian economics at Girton College and earned a masters degree, and at 21 forced herself to confront her heavily accented English by becoming the first foreign-born woman to be the president of the celebrated debating society, the Cambridge Union. One of her tutors was the Maoist economist Joan Robinson. She is remembered there, according to a recent article in the London Telegraph, as sporting around in an Alfa Romeo and literally romancing conservative ideals, dating a young member of Parliament, John Selwyn Gummer, who later became vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party. She later had dinner with Times of London writer Bernard Levin, one of the most influential columnists of the time, and ended up in an eight-year relationship with him."
I wonder how much ideology they actually share but both of us are only guessing until he tells us. She has been writing political columns for years, books, and even debated in campaigns in lieu of her husband. So I know what her issues and stances are.
I looked at Arnolds web page and there isn't much there: basically a donation link and a news article. He promises more to come.
Arianna's page has issues, positions, and past columns she had penned that have her pov in black and white--no equivocation.
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