From the Sacramento Bee: Stay in school, ride in a tank:
(California) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new rewards program for schoolkids: Stay in school, take a tank for a spin.
The Republican governor is bringing home an Austrian army tank he loaned the Motts Military Museum in Columbus, Ohio, and he said Wednesday he plans to use it to drive around inner-city children who do well in school, say “no” to drugs and avoid gangs in the Los Angeles area.
Our governor is more fun than your governor.
Update: Some New York City middle school students will get a cellphone and 130 prepaid minutes as a reward for good grades.
That worked great for Mondale, didn’t it?
You mean Dukakis.
The Republican governor is bringing home an Austrian army tank he loaned the Motts Military Museum in Columbus, Ohio, and he said Wednesday he plans to use it to drive around inner-city children who do well in school, say “no” to drugs and avoid gangs in the Los Angeles area.
He plans to drive over the rest of the children.
Walter: Dukakis looked like a very out-of-place dork wearing a helmet and sticking his head out of a tank hatch. The Gubernator should be able to look as good in military gear as John Wayne ever did. (Schwarzenegger served one year in the Austrian military, which I think is one year more than Wayne…)
I think that Schwarzenegger is one of the few people that can make a tank look MORE deadly simply by riding around in it.
The Schwartz also has flown a jet for “True Lies,” so he’s familiar with how military things work. Michael “Snoopy Dog” Dukkakis just looked like a doofus.
Mondale. Dukakis, erry, they all look the same to me.