President Schwarzenegger?

Just when you thought Arnold Schwarzenegger A) was done being in movies, and B) couldn't run for higher office, along comes The Simpsons Movie.

"President Schwarzenegger" (voiced by Harry Shearer) plays a key cameo role in the film, deciding the fate of Springfield and setting up the film's central crisis which Homer must resolve.

When we first see him in the film, he is in the Oval Office pining for his old Hollywood days, complaining "I hate dis job. Everything's crisis dis, end of the world dat. Nobody opens with a joke. I miss Danny DeVito."

Soon his environmental secretary Russ Cargill (Albert Brooks) is spelling out his choices for how to deal with an environmental crisis in Springfield.

Cargill: I've narrowed your choices down to five unthinkable options. Each will cause untold misery ....

Schwarzenegger: I pick number three!

Cargill: You don't want to read them first?

Schwarzenegger: I was elected to lead, not to read. Number three!

(Hmm, wonder if that's how Schwarzenegger came up with his idea to hold a special election in 2005?)