With Friends Like This...

The campaign for California governor is starting to ramp up with the first TV commercials for Gov. Arnold appearing on TV (nothing from Phil Angelides yet - he may be out of money after the primary). One prominent California politician had this to say about the two candidates. First, about Gov. Arnold (from Political Diary):

"He's the best in the business when he gets out around regular people and just sells himself as Arnold."

And now about Dem Phil Angelides:

"Phil is a smart guy. But he doesn't look good on TV and doesn't sound good on radio. They need to keep him in places like Dinuba and Chico, where they don't have modern communications with the rest of the state and no one can see or hear him."

Of course, after reading this the assumption would be that the speaker was a Republican. In fact, the speaker was former Speaker and now Mayor of San Francisco, Democrat Willie Brown.

Ouch!