[timmybrown]

Sorry this may not be based on Orthodoxy but I felt I had to post this. Please forgive me, I hope I don't offend anyone's pride by posting this. (By the way as a Christian you should not have pride anyway.)

This just made me laugh and cry at the same time.

Arnold Schwartzenegger talks on CNN:

"If you believe this country(USA), not the United Nations, is the best hope for democracy, then you are a Republican...We move prosperity ahead. We move freedom ahead. And we move people ahead. And we are the America that fights not for imperialism, but for human rights and democracy." FROM DICTIONARY.COM
Definition of DEMOCRACY

Democracy: n 1: the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives 2: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them [syn: republic, commonwealth] [ant: autocracy] 3: the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group [syn: majority rule]. Hang on!!! Am I missing something here??? Isn't the opposite of Democracy Austocracy, the rule by one the few or singular member? Isn't the UN representing all of us? The majority?

And Arnie continues:

"The U.S. economy remains the envy of the world. We have the highest economic growth of any of the world's major industrialized nations. Don't you remember the pessimism of 20 years ago, when the critics said Japan and Germany are overtaking the U.S.? Ridiculous. Now, they say that India and China are overtaking us. Don't you believe it. We may hit a few bumps, but America always moves ahead. That's what Americans do." And then he adds:

"We are still the lamp lighting the world, especially those who struggle...We are the America that sends out the Peace Corps volunteers to teach our village children. We are the America that sends out the missionaries and doctors to raise up the poor and the sick. We are the America that gives more than any other country to fight AIDS in Africa and the developing world." What Hypocricy, What Lies!!! First he admits that his country will never allow anyone to rise or take off economically and then he tells us that America feeds the hungry and destitute.

What the hec is going on over there in America? Please tell me you don't all think like that over there.

"Today, the world no longer fears the Soviet Union, and it is because of the United States of America." That's because everyone now fears America instead.

Don't get me wrong I'm not anti-American or anti repaublican party, it's just that arrogant up yourself, I can do anything I want and get away with it by paying off everyone with my American Express card, cause I'm a Cowboy, attitude that rubs me the wrong way I guess.

Conclusion: polititians (especially president's) realy need psychological assessments before they run for office.

Original - http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/...er.transcript/