Arnold Schwarzenegger on flip flopping, working in an Obama Administration

On "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" this morning, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was talking about how Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has been moving towards the center, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would, in his view, hopefully start doing so.

"In politics out there, they always say, 'Well, now, I don't know anymore what he really stands for. He has just changed his mind...'" Schwarzenegger said.

"Flip-flopper," said George.

"'...and he's flip-flopping' and all those kinds of things," the Republican governor continued. "Let me tell you something. Flip-flopping is getting a bad rap, because I think it is great. Someone has made a mistake. I mean, someone has, for 20 or 30 years, been in the wrong place with his idea and with his ideology and says, 'You know something? I changed my mind. I am now for this.' As long as he's honest or she's honest, I think that is a wonderful thing. You can change your mind...

"I have changed my mind on things and there is nothing wrong with it," Schwarzenegger continued. "But I'd just say to the people, I'd say, 'Look, I once felt this way. Now I think this way,' end of story."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/schwarzenegger.html
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is hinting that he might be open to a position in presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama's cabinet. "I'm always ready to help in any way I can the United States," Schwarzenegger told George Stephanopoulos exclusively on "This Week" in an interview that aired Sunday.

"Because as you know," Schwarzenegger added, "I've committed myself to be a public servant, because this country has given me everything. And so this is my time now."

While he described the scenario as "hypothetical," Schwarzenegger, who has endorsed presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, admitted he would "take [Obama's] call now and I'd take his call when he's president, anytime."

Obama has previously mentioned Schwarzenegger in discussions about his possible cabinet, saying last December, "There are things I don't agree with him on, but he's taken leadership on a very difficult issue [climate change] and we haven't seen that kind of leadership in Washington."

Earlier in the week, Newsweek suggested Schwarzenegger might serve as an energy and environmental adviser to Obama.

"He [Obama] admires California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's [climate-change czar] approach to the environment," the Newsweek article read, "and he's close to the governor's wife, Maria Shriver, and her Kennedy kin."

In response, Schwarzenegger seemed to suggest that he could forsee serving in a Democratic administration.

"No matter who is president, I don't see this as a political thing," he said. "We always have to help, no matter what the administration is."
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/Vote2008/Story?id=5365355&page=1

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[Filucky]

MSNBC totaly took that interview out of context, by watching this you would think Arnold was wiling to work in the whitehouse with oboma, but in the full interview he said he would NOT take the job if offered. MSNBC sucks ass!

[Woblesavvy]

Let me talk to your mother.

[CaptEm1]

GET TO DA CHOPPA!!!

[toastmansride]

Who is your daddy and what does he do?!?!

[redarrowhead2]

@TheRealTaco87 I don't truly believe you know what you're talking about.

[mrstrings65]

Worst governor of all time !!!

[bkeener86]

lol sounded like that guy said arnold scheranigger

[1965ace]

aunold is a girly man who doesn't have any principals.

[TheRealTaco87]

Just cause Arnlod was an actor doesn't make him the second coming of Reagan. He's more liberal than conservative. I don't truly believe he's a republican

[markkuwerkko]

One of us is in deep trouble

[zuj1984]

i c now