Arnie's Raw Deal

I have a lot of friends that I hardly ever get to see, but I try to have lunch, dinner, or
drinks with my "out of touch" friends at least once or twice a year. So today, I went to happy hour with a couple of old friends, Jamie Lee and Grace.

Although they live nowhere near, they fly in, we have tons of drinks, they fill me in on neighborhood gossip and goings on with their Local PTA's, we swap recipes, and we just generally "girl talk." (Except Grace, she doesn't really "girl talk", I am pretty sure she has more testosterone than me.) We got on the topic of politics, after talking about some of their old friends that, they have in common, and they both shared recent messages they had both sent to Governor Arnold. (We all giggle when we say "Governor Arnold".) I asked, and they said I could reprint their messages here. (I added the links but didn't edit the content.) It was the picture to the right that sparked the conversation. We saw it after discussing Patsy's good post from this morning. Love you, Patsy.

This one is from Jamie Lee.

Arnold,

It's Jamie. I know we haven't talked in a while, but I thought I would drop you a note. I saw your picture the other day, and you're not looking too well. I mean, I know you're getting older, like we all are, but with all that money, get some work done. You're the fitness guy. The guy who could bench press me and two of my body guards at once! (And wow, what the four of us would do after that was just wild.) Sorry, I got off track. Anyway, I noticed you were looking a little stressed. Stress caused by your career, I'm sure. You were certainly never stressed making movies. "True Lies" was a contrived piece of crap, as we both know, but we had fun making it. We had such big dreams back then.
But now, what's happened to you now? You've posed naked. You've posed naked in a gay magazine. You were naked in movies, and you were the fucking terminator! You could be using your authority as Governor to do so much. And now you're going to veto the gay marriage bill? How many gay friends do you have, from your weight lifting days, your movie career, and just from living in California! And you don't even say it yourself, your press secretary announced it. What a pussy thing to do. I know you're planning on announcing your intent to run for governor again, and just think how many people would vote for you if you stood up for equal rights, that all people deserve? And there's still a ton of closeted gays you don't even know about that would vote for you! Even Ryan Seacrest would vote for you if you did the right thing. (Not that he's closeted, but you get the point.)

But no, apparently you are now just an out of shape, old, politician who plays it safe. Try to remember the good old days, and do the right thing.

Jamie Lee
p.s. let me know if you see any good scripts, my career's been a little slow lately. My latest and biggest appearance in years is on some blog with vomit in the title.

This next one is from Grace. She isn't quite as eloquent, but good communication basically boils down to if your point gets across. I think Grace does that here.

Arnold, quit being a freaking douche. Don't veto the bill and be a man. Grace.

Anyway, after a few margaritas, they both admitted their messages probably won't do any good, but they did let me ride in the limo and drink from the limo's bar. So, some times, when things aren't going your way and things look all depressing, at least a limo with a bar is right around the corner. And Grace gives a mean hummer.