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Obama Offered Schwarzenegger a Cabinet Position

It’s been almost two years since former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said “hasta la vista, baby” to public office. And despite his now returning to Hollywood to star in “The Expendables 2,” apparently you shouldn’t count him out of the public arena yet. The Obama administration might call in Ah-nuld to become one of their cabinet secretaries.

Yes, really. How do we know? Because they already asked Schwarzenegger to do so once. The Wall Street Journal reports:

Mr. Schwarzenegger was approached by White House officials about a cabinet position around the time he left office in January 2011, according to people familiar with the matter.

The entreaty to the centrist Republican governor wasn’t completely out of the blue.

Mr. Schwarzenegger, who was in office for more than seven years and continues to promote his vision of “post-partisanship,” acknowledged earlier in his career that he’d welcome a cabinet post.

In July 2008, on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, Mr. Schwarzenegger was asked whether he’d consider an energy-related cabinet position with the Obama administration, were Barack Obama, then a candidate, to win the presidency.

Mr. Schwarzenegger said he would, replying: “I’d take his call now, and I’d take his call when he’s president, anytime.”

So what was the post? No one knows yet. The White House has been contacted by Politico for comment, but nothing has resulted. However, given Schwarzenegger’s love of green energy, the most likely position would have been something related to energy production. Whether that would be at the EPA or the Energy Department or even the Commerce Department is anyone’s guess. John Bryson was nominated to the last post in 2011, and whereas Bryson was embroiled in controversy over his environmentalist past, it would be easy to see Schwarzenegger breezing through a confirmation hearing on the strength of his still exigent (but reduced) starpower.

Schwarzenegger’s Hollywood ticket is, at the moment, quite full, so it’s debatable whether this will ever happen again. Then again, you never know. As Arnold himself might say…

Comments (85)

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  • Constantine Ivanov
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:40am

    What position it might be? A bowed one, to lick some obama’s parts?

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    • lukerw
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:16am

      I did not know that we had… a Secretary of B Movies!

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    • DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:28am

      As we know, Obama’s cabinet is a joke – a group of do-nothing figureheads. Ahnold would fit right in.

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:09am

      This clown waselected to straighten out thefinancesof California, because it was imploding economically.

      He did just the opposite. His inability and ineptness nearly wrecked the economy all on his own.

      He’d fit in nicely with the present administration.

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:53am

      If Obama wasn’t born in the USA he 2 can be president.

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    • Kaoscontrol
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:11pm

      …Unfaithful to his wife on numerous occasions, and he enjoys cigars… he’s Bill Clinton with an Austrian accent.

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  • spinelessdave
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:55pm

    BROmance!!
    EEEWWWWWWW!!!!!

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  • ricckky
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:47pm

    Too many face lifts has squeezed his brain into oblivion!!!!!! What a jerk!!!!! He is no more a conservative than obama is truthful!!!!!

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    • Constantine Ivanov
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:44am

      Of course. The obama woulnd’t offer a position to a real Republican. It’s just a pre-election masquerade

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    • izzy1127
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:53am

      No, he’s not a Conservative, just a Republican. So glad I’ve educated myself on the difference, and seem to be in good company on here. But this is pretty much a non-story since Obamas cabinet has no power, just figure heads……… Romney/Ryan 2012……..

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  • 1forthegoodguy
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:33pm

    What’s hilarious about this is that if Arnold had been picked for VP by Romney he would still be the “Terminator,“ ”one of America’s most popular entertainers,“ and the adulterous relationship would be so ”old news” for the right.

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    • daxbrady
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 4:14pm

      negative….. VP means ready and qualified to be president… Arnold wasn‘t born in the US and can’t be president. We republicans are funny like that… Hence the interest in Obama’s qualifications, being he has a birth certificate and selective service card that are questionable.. Oh and I forgot the Social Security number from a state he never lived in.

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    • ree758
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 5:54pm

      No one wants Arnold he spends like demacrat

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  • marine249
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:08pm

    this has to be the joke of the week

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  • blackyb
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 10:31pm

    This man who has a kid with the maid when he is living with his wife? That is the type Obama is wanting, traitors. The man has no morals just like Obama.

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 10:49pm

      skinny man & roid boy to the distruction of the world ; they would be a great pair !

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  • slr4528
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 10:27pm

    I’ll take Eastwood over Arnie any day of the year. Wow is Obama desperate. So Obama thinks that Arnie the STD infected womanizer, who destroyed CA econom,and also got his maid pregnant while living with Maria,will help him with th women’s vote?

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  • kcinco
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:56pm

    Why not ask Sean Penn (the dictator supporter), Tom Hanks (the Gump of the left), and maybe Tom Cruise (the insane Scientologist) to take a cabinet position? You could throw John Travolta in there too.

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  • xena
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:40pm

    What a joke lets bring all of Hollywood in ,so they can all party.Obama is sucking up big time in Hollywood just to get their money and they are falling for it.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:04am

      Well, they are only known for pretending to be other people, not for their little brains. Does anyone know how many of these so-called celebrities have a high school diploma or a college degree?

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  • grayling646
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:31pm

    That’d be a perfect fit, don’t you think? One failure working for another.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:28pm

    Doesn’t matter really; Obama does not have meetings with his Cabinet officials.

    http://voices.yahoo.com/obama-has-never-met-privately-half-dozen-of-7929862.html
    (There is a link to The Blaze in this article if you look for it)

    Ah-nuld would have just been a “token” Republican with no power or say in anything.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:40pm

      Ahnowld isn’t a Republican, he’s a liberal RINO with communist background and ideals.

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  • Seneca264
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:21pm

    The son of a Nazi jew murderer will be a good fit in Obama’s administration. Arnie was very successful at driving the state of California into the ground. Yep, Arnie will be a good fit.

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  • Maxim Crux
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:18pm

    No thanks Arnold, we have witnessed the fine job you did for California. Stick to what you do best…B-rated Movies.

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  • tothepoint
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:03pm

    The philandering liar Arnold would fit right in with Obama and his gang.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:20pm

      The truth is Arnold is not thuggish enough for O’Copone, as far as cheating on a Kennedy well at least he didn’t kill her.

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:31am

      Conan The Annoyer.

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  • pissantno.10
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:03pm

    arnolds is austrian women there are still second class. and most of them are socalist but they still like americans and austria is a great place to visit if you have to go to europe

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  • ktmrider1
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:01pm

    I wonder when arnold is going to come out of the closet

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:00pm

    …
    Arnold claims to be a Republican, but when he married into the Kennedy family, I knew he was actually a Democrat.

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  • Polarized America
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:59pm

    I’m surprised,..isn’t SCHWARZENEGGER a racist name ?….:O-}

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:41pm

      Yes it is. Not very many people know that. His last name is literally Black Ni**er.

      Report Post » NOT A CRAZY  
  • ktmrider1
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:58pm

    swartsaphony is just another hollywood liberal but hey he was a really good actor portraying himself as a conservative I shall boycott every stupid piece of crap movie he has made or is making. he is a lousey actor in his b movies

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  • Too_Far_Gone
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:54pm

    Of course ! Look how well California is turning out ..

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:50pm

    Arnold must be one of the Republicans scheduled to speak at the Democratic Convention. he-he-he

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dem-convention-to-feature-notable-republicans-paint-romney-as-a-heartless-aristocrat/

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  • jdtanker
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:50pm

    Who cares, Arnold is a progressive anyway.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:59pm

      True.

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:04pm

      Arnold is a disgrace. Anyone who followed his Kalifornia political career knows that he is a left leaning super-RINO. Of course B.O. wants him.

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    • UpChuck.Liberals
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 10:16pm

      Arnold is another Liberal, Marxist. He was the third worst thing for California. Numbers 1 & 2 is Jerry Moonbeam Brown. Any Californian‘s reading this Your’re about to be screwed big time. Look up the 3% mandatory retirement the fools in Sac are going to hit us up with. When they default, which we know they will, your employer will be on the hook for the stolen money.

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  • freenj
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:47pm

    Did Arnold get back with that Shriver gal?

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    • Kathleen3
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:50pm

      The fact that he was outed as a adulterer and womanizer qualified him for a position in the Obama administration. Were he to go back with Shriver and lead a normal, moral life he would then not qualify to serve.

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  • chips1
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:44pm

    Arnold does like girly men.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:36pm

    Was the cabinet position to haul Obama’s ego around, that takes a very strong person.

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    • 13th Generation American
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:46pm

      No The Cabinet Position was for something in the Energy Department in Green Technology. You know, the wave of the future kind of thinking that people that post here tend to bury their brains up their butts about.

      Report Post » 13th Generation American  
    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 8:56pm

      Sorry 13Gen. Most of us are just trying to emulate our beloved leader Obama, he has his head up his butt all the time, it’s kind of like Simon Says.

      Report Post » Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra  
    • historyguy48
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 9:06pm

      13th generation; if “green” technology was so great, so wonderful, why isn’t private industry doing it? Why does it take government to “help” private industry out with this actually 19th century technology?
      Because it’s a loser, that’s why! And hasn’t Dear Leader thrown away enough of our money chasing the non-existent pot of gold at the end of this rainbow.
      Yes, this is 19th century technology, all gussied up in modern plastics so it looks nice and shiny. Only as soon as the farmers that were using their wonderful windmills to move water were able to, they all changed to electric pumps because windmills are to often unusable.
      Generating electrical power through solar energy is also a late 19th century technology. Once again modern solar cells are marginally more effective, but not enough to actually do the job.
      So here we are stuck using Demon Oil, Filthy Coal, CO2 laden natural gas, or nuclear generation of electricity. All of which work wonderfully well and are abundantly plentiful within our country.
      Instead fools pursuing their “green dream” are destroying our country by preventing us from using technologies that actually work.
      So think about this when your electric bill “will necessarily skyrocket” (BHO) when the electricity is even available. The majority of coal fired plants in Ohio will close by the end of this year (32 in total) to satisfy fools.

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    • 13th Generation American
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 10:45pm

      Historyguy

      It took NASA and the Apollo missions to make Velcro, now use some to zipper your pinhead 3rd grade mentality

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:54am

      Hey 13th GEN. Glad to see you’re back. Long time no smell. Do ya think he’ll offer Boehner a cabinet position? I say inside one. Join him.

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