Schwarzencratic Method

"Arnold needs a history lesson. Of course, that he even has a vague idea of the meaning of Athens and Sparta puts him way ahead of the guy in the White House." -- Thomas Palaima, director of Aegean Scripts and Prehistory program at the University of Texas, Austin, in a Sacramento Bee op-ed revisiting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's comparison of California to Athens and Sparta.

Another point: "Eventually, the Athenians restricted the benefits of citizenship to children born of two Athenian parents. Because of this requirement, asserts Palaima, the Austrian-born Schwarzenegger never could have become archon, the equivalent of governor in Athens. Nor could he have ruled in Sparta, which had a highly restrictive oligarchy."