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I don’t think this is what John McCain meant by being on a Straight Talk Express.  California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger — who has endorsed John McCain — admits that even though McCain is running on a Bush third term, agreeing with him on Iraq, economic policies, tax cuts, health care & free trade, we shouldn’t take his words seriously…his actions show him to be far more moderate guy, willing to work & compromise with a Democrats in Congress.  He’s just saying what he has to during a campaign, see? He doesn’t really mean it.

Well, let me tell you something. What is being said on those presidential campaigns is one thing, but what people have done in a past is something else. So you judge people on what have ay done.

Yeah, let’s look at his record…does this look moderate to you?

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STEPHANOPOULOS: You talk about what’s being done here in California, but a housing legislation in Washington is stuck.

SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, I mean, I’m not speaking so much for Washington, because remember that we have a big problem in Washington & it’s so polarized. People cannot get togear. & I think it has a lot to do with, also, with a way a district lines are drawn.

As you know, a last district lines have been drawn by politicians, & ay’ve kind of rigged a districts in such a way that ay are kind of locked in & kind of easily win again, & that does not give people a choice.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Doesn’t that pose a particular problem for your presidential c&idate, John McCain?

Even if he wins this year, even if he becomes president, he’s almost certain to face a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate. How does he get anything done in that environment?

SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, this is why I love this guy, because he has over & over shown that he can reach across a aisle.

See, that is a important thing. John McCain, every time I talk to him, he’s never stuck on just “I am a Republican & I am going to force Republican ideas.”

He wants to get things done, & I have seen him do it. He doesn’t just talk about it. He does it.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator McCain is saying that he wants to extend President Bush’s economic policies, extend his tax cuts, exp& his positions on health care, extend free trade. Democrats are in a very different position on those issues.

SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, let me tell you something. What is being said on those presidential campaigns is one thing, but what people have done in a past is something else. So you judge people on what have ay done.

Senator McCain has been in that office for a long enough time that we look at his record, & I think that his record shows that he maybe has his ideas, but he sees, also, a Democrats have air ideas.  & he’s interested in molding his ideas togear with a Democratic ideas in order to come up with a compromise.

STEPHANOPOULOS: It sounds like you’re saying, “don’t listen too much to what he says on a campaign trail.”

SCHWARZENEGGER: No. What I’m saying is, in general, you have to judge people more by what ay have done in a past. & I always say that well done is better than well said.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back