President Schwarzenegger? Arnold "Absolutely" Wants The Top Job (VIDEO)

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger tells "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley that he would "absolutely" like to be U.S. president if the Constitution could be changed to allow foreign-born Americans to run for the White House.

"Well, you're a man of no small ambition. If the Constitution was changed, you'd like to be president, wouldn't you?" Pelley asked.

"Yeah, absolutely," Schwarzenegger acknowledged. "I think that I am always a person that looks for the next big goal. And I love challenges. I always set goals that are so high, that are almost impossible to achieve. Because then, you're always hungry for climbing and climbing. Because it's always interesting. The climb is always interesting. When you get there you just have to pick another goal."

Schwarzenegger also reveals one of his classic weight-lifting tricks: put smaller weights on for the camera and use wooden plates to make it seem as if you're lifting more:

"I mean, when you do it for the cameras you do only 50, so you take it easy. You don't kill yourself," Schwarzenegger replied, laughing.

Asked if that's the trick, Schwarzenegger said, "Oh yeah. Absolutely. I remember when I did this scene in 'Stay Hungry' at the squats with Sally Fields watching there. And I had to do it over and over again. And I had 225 pounds on it, as I learned very quickly, put on wooden plates."

Comments

[tzbar]

Oh ya, Austria needs one....

[naschkatze]

Never happen. Even if you could get it out of Congress and into the states, by the time it would take to ratify it, he'd be older than McCain. And there's no guarantee that it would be ratified.

[edwarvir]

Forget it Arnie, you can't even run Callyfornia!

[blb]

just what we need.
first terminator, then governator, then the disasterator.
i think we've had enough with his intellectual half brother GW, didn't we?

[bluekatz]

Maybe he can run in Austria! What a loof! This mor0n bankrupted Cali and like a drunken f00l he wants the keys to the liquor cabinet.

[Whinger]

Ain't we lucky to have a Constitution, just think of the harm he could do!

[KeepMeLearning]

No thanks. Schwarzenegger has managed to put California in the tank financially--I don't think I want to see him do it to our country.

[Budokan]

POTUS? Laughable. Fortunately The Constitution of the United States will put a thumb in that optic....

[Free2Speak]

Sure why not with a 38% approval rating and a 43 billion dollar budget deficit on the horizon.Like Bob Barker use to say from The Price is Right "come on down".

[fiberoptimist]

Just what we need. Another power hungry, half-wit fulfilling his blind ambitions at the expense of the rest of us. No thanks.

[thromulese]

Arnold is a bad actor and a worse governor. So now he wants to do to America what he has done to a state he can’t even pronounce.

NOT LIKELY.

[shirleyfeeney]

not that I would ever defend Ahnuld in a million years...I live in CA and can't believe the mess that he's helped to create here...but he's actually the only person who pronounces the name of our fair state correctly...

[JimmyTX]

I thought Arnold said that the budget shortfall under Gov. Davis would never happen again.

Why aren't Californians getting their petitions-signing pens out?

I think it's a nutty system, but if you're gonna recall Davis, you've gotta recall Arnold.

[shirleyfeeney]

we can't afford to...the recall of Gray Davis cost us enough to begin with.

[naschkatze]

Gray Davis was done in by Kenneth Lay and Enron.

[BrettnCalgary]

If they change the constitution it will allow Obama to become president, and waste all those wonderful lawsuits challenging his citizenship!

[Jared137]

WTF?

[Budokan]

Your mother called. You forgot to pick up your Tinker Toys in the basement in which you live....

[BrettnCalgary]

Chill, I was attempting to mock the repugs and their retarded talking points, guess I was too convincing.

[PackyJ]

The US Constitution won't be amended to accommodate Arnie, so let's move on to another topic, shall we?

[marignymitch]

Himmel! Gif him vat he vants!