Obama has skinny legs... scrawny little arms: Arnie

VIRGINIA: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has ridiculed Barack Obama as he stumped for Republican John McCain on the home stretch of the historic US presidential election race.

Schwarzenegger gave McCain's campaign a high-voltage jolt of starpower on Friday at an evening rally in the battleground state of Ohio on another day of frenzied campaigning with Tuesday's election just four days away.

Republican Schwarzenegger stole the show at the final stop on McCain's two-day bus tour of Ohio, a state that the 72-year-old Arizona Senator must win if he is to claim the White House from Democratic front-runner Obama, who is seeking to become the first African-American US president.

Schwarzenegger delighted a raucous crowd of several thousands with some biting barbs about Obama's policies and physique. Schwarzenegger, who organises a bodybuilding competition in Columbus every year, said he wanted to invite Obama because "he needs to do something about those skinny legs. I'm going to make him do some squats."
"And then we're going to make him do some biceps curls to beef up those scrawny little arms," Schwarzenegger said, before his punchline: "But if he could only do something about putting some meat on his ideas."

As he trekked through Ohio on Friday, a fired-up McCain repeatedly insisted he was closing the gap on his rival. "The pundits have written us off like they have done before but we're closing my friends but we're going to win in Ohio," McCain said.