During a campaign appearance for a Republican candidate to the California Assembly, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made fun of Sen. Ted Kennedy's weight. The Massachusetts senator is the Terminator's uncle by marriage. Schwarzenegger is married to Kennedy niece Maria Shriver.
After appearing a little late for the campaign event Monday, Schwarzenegger apologized, explaining that he had been pumpkin hunting with his children.
"My kids just brought home a beautiful pumpkin, but you know what? I'm going to return it because it's a Democratic pumpkin. It has the orange color of John Kerry's tan, and the roundness of Teddy Kennedy," said the Republican governor.
Later, Schwarzenegger made a few more jokes about Kennedy's weight when discussing California's $103 billion budget.
"That's a lot of money," he said. "Another way to think about it is if you take $100 bills and put them next to each other, they will go half way, truly half way around Teddy Kennedy's stomach."
As the audience guffawed, Schwarzenegger said, "I always like to make jokes about Teddy Kennedy. I think it's always fun to do that. He's one of my favorite relatives. He comes to my house and he eats away all the cake and all the desserts that we have."
—The Associated Press contributed to this report.
It just cracked me up, reading his lines and hearing the Governator's voice. "Ah alvays like to make jokes about Teddy. Jah, 'es one ov my favorite relativs."