Arnold thinks Obama is 'beautiful'

"When have you ever seen a president be that out there?" That was a mesmerized Arnold Schwarzenegger after Obama's town hall meeting.

"I've never seen that," Schwarzenegger said to a couple reporters as he and his wife, Maria Shriver, tried to make an exit. "Usually people are so guarded. The aides are always so guarded. They're so afraid that you will blow it or that you will make news that's unintended and all those things."

Schwarzenegger continued to gush about Obama.

"But I think he's so smart," he said. "He's so clear with his thinking and he's so well informed and has been dealing with policy in all this and is also very philosophic it's almost like. I think he's just like u2013 I think it's beautiful."

Asked how he feels about supporting a stimulus package most members of his party did not, he said. "You know me. I don't look at things as a Republican. If it's good for California, it's good for me."