Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building, and Derek has just crossed over into "Schwarzenegger apologist"!

D -- the country Arnold served in the military for was his own: Austria , not Nazi Germany, so he gets no points for going AWOL. No points! It is not a respectable thing to do. It is illegal, and it is wrong. And he went AWOL not to save orphaned children from a burning building, to care for his sick mother, or any admirable reason. It was for his own selfish reasons -- to indulge a hobby.

If your point is that California should vote for an unscrupulous egoist , then we can look forward to Larry Flynt coming in second.