I can do better than "Obama"

HASTA la vista, Obama! Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger has only one role left on his bucket list: leader of the free world.

Schwarzenegger in Sydney as he set for the latest Chapter of the Terminator Series

The former governor of California was in Sydney yesterday ahead of a special preview screening of his new film Terminator Genisys, which opens on July 2. And, while he took time out to visit the Sydney Opera House, the only house he wanted to discuss was the white one in Washington DC.

“I wouldn’t switch my position with anybody,’’ he said.

“But everyone knows that if I was American-born I would probably run for president. I could do a better job than these guys can, trust me.”

The 67-year-old is used to pulling enough weight to secure any role he wants but is not eligible for the country’s top job because of the US Constitution’s natural-born citizen clause for the offices of president and vice-president.

Fearsome Adversery....Arnold in Terminator
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However the Austrian-born entertainer, who became a US citizen in the early 1980s and was governor of California for two successive terms, said he was prepared to accept that he would never be president.

“That job’s not available and I am not going to complain about it because everything that I have accomplished in my life is because of America,” Schwarzenegger told The Daily Telegraph.

“So I’m not going to complain about the one job that I can’t do.”

The Terminator Series is taken as One of Arnold's Greatest films of All time

The 67-year-old action superstar now spreads his time between the USC Schwarzenegger Institute, which aims to influence public policy on issues such as stem cell research and global warming, his body-building empire, spearheaded by the Arnold Classic, and more recently, his acting comeback.

As well as reprising his iconic role inTerminator: Genisys, which opens in Australia on July 2, Schwarzenegger has signed on for The Legend of Conan, set 30 years after his original breakthrough film, and Triplets, which reunites the actor with diminutive Twins co-star Danny DeVito and introduces African-American comedian Eddie Murphy to the mix.

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