I object to your selection of UK-equivalent -- Beckham is always having the piss taken out of him for being thick. Substitute someone like Glenda Jackson (MP) or John Cleese or Michael Palin (the latter two having no political qualifications that I know of, and so being a fairer comparison) and it's a different story.
Not that I'm endorsing Arnie by this argument. I certainly sighed in a 'god, what do people get up to' sort of way when I heard the news this morning, though. But I think you have to appreciate that as they said on the Today program, despite their ditzy reputations it's not going to be the case that California overall as a state seriously believes that Arnie will 'terminate' their problems or anything.
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Date: October 8th, 2003 02:30 am (UTC)From:Not that I'm endorsing Arnie by this argument. I certainly sighed in a 'god, what do people get up to' sort of way when I heard the news this morning, though. But I think you have to appreciate that as they said on the Today program, despite their ditzy reputations it's not going to be the case that California overall as a state seriously believes that Arnie will 'terminate' their problems or anything.