Until yesterday, the The Great Mentioner had Schwarzenegger on the shortlist for Obama Energy Secretary. That was the buzz in the Politico’s “Dems sketch Obama staff, Cabinet,” and on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, where Arnold said of Obama:

I would take his call now, I will take his call when he’s president — any time. Remember, no matter who is president, I don’t see this as a political thing. I see this as we always have to help, no matter what the administration is.

True, the Terminator runs on nuclear power, but Schwarzenegger has probably been the most aggressive governor and the country in terms of embracing climate policy and climate solutions. Plus he gives Obama some bipartisan cred.

But Arnold totally trashed Obama yesterday in Ohio, presumably some long-ago promise he made McCain. He rather gratuitously ocked both Obama’s policies and physique (!):

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You can’t save daylight by moving around the hands on your clock, of course. So daylight saving time remains as absurdly named as it ever was.

As for saving energy, DST doesn’t do that either, according to most studies, as I noted earlier this year. An Australian study concluded “These results suggest that current plans and proposals to extend DST will fail to conserve energy.” A recent study, in fact, found DST “may actually waste energy“:

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