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ringmastery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-04 02:53 PM
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Should the constitution be changed to allow foreign borns to run for prez?
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Edited on Sun Feb-22-04 02:55 PM by ringmastery
Arnold wants it changed and fundamentally, he's right. We are a nation of immigrants. This would also help our democratic governor Jennifer Granholm from Michigan. She's a future star of our party. She was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. when she was a little girl. What reasonable explanation is there to prevent her from running?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=5&u=/ap/20040222/ap_on_re_us/schwarzenegger

WASHINGTON - Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites), making his Sunday talk show debut as governor, said that he and other foreign-born citizens should be eligible to run for the White House and that President Bush (news - web sites) can carry California in November if he does more to help the state.

The Austrian-born former bodybuilder, in the capital for his first meeting with fellow governors, said he has not thought about running for president in the future. The Constitution says only natural-born citizens of the United States are eligible for the country's highest office.

The Republican governor said anyone who has been a U.S. citizen for at least 20 years — as he has — should "absolutely" be able to seek the presidency. A constitutional amendment proposed by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, would make that possible.
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