You’ve probably heard of the Smoking Gun posting of that interview Arnold did with Oui magazine, where he talks about gangbanging and smoking pot and stuff. Strange to me what people choose to excerpt. Try this one on for size.

After Arnold points out that he’s the first non-American to win Mr. Universe, the magazine asks:

Oui: Why were the Americans so successful? Was it a question of having more money?

Schwarzenegger: No, it was because the Americans had all the confidence. Theirs was a mental superiority, the feeling that they owned the title. But in Austria, the mentality was the reverse; winning against the Americans was unthinkable. By the time I was 15, though, I had a vision of absolutely wiping everybody off the stage. I had no idea, really, of what a stage even looked like, but I say myself standing there, posing and winning.

Religious conservatives may decide not to vote for the guy, and that’s fine, given that they’re probably only 10% of the state. The rest of California will vote for the guy, and it’s because of that uniquely American attitude he talks about and expresses above.

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