Do you support amending the Constitution so Arnold can run for President?

[Lone_Gunman]

Just curious what everyone thinks about this... I am pretty skeptical myself. For one thing, Arnold should be a Democrat, not Republican. Our present system requiring Presidents to be naturally born citizens has worked out pretty well, why change it?

Check out this site...

http://amendforarnold.com/

I think there is going to be a bigger push for this over the next couple of years...

 

[El Rojo]

If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it. I like Arnold in California, but we don't need him nation wide.

 

[molonlabe]

Maybe California will vote for a movie star. I doubt the rest of the red states will.

 

[Tag]

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President

How long has Arnold been living here? That "OR a Citizen of the United States" bit has me thinking he's already eligible... I'm sure there is more to it though.

I wouldn't vote for him

 

[41mag]

No!

 

[Kaylee]

Absolutely not. Changing the constitution for one man is just.... silly.

And Tag... that line only means someone not born a Citizen WHO WAS A CITIZEN AT THE TIME OF RATIFICATION could hold the office. I don't think Arnold was around then.

 

[redhead]

No. I think it's a bad idea. If Arnold can run, then so can George Soros. And how foolish is it to tinker with the Constitution for one man? What an ego.

 

[2nd Amendment]

No! And did I mention HELL NO!

 

[cslinger]

Ummm I'm going to lean towards Hell No. Nothing against Ah'nold but I don't like tinkering with the Constitution, especially for one man.

Chris

 

[OF]

No.

 

[FPrice]

No.

 

[Henry Bowman]

No.

 

[Dave R]

No way.

 

[George S.]

Absoultely not! It would be too easy for some group to move a person into this country and build some sort of political power base around him and portray him as being good for the country and then come to find out that foreign power brokers are behind him.

It would, of course, require amending the Constitution to allow this to happen. IMHO, the Founding Fathers clearly intended the country to be run by its native sons. Too many years of rule by the English who sent their people over to control the country was the basis for requireing that the President be native born.

 

[WT]

No.

The Founding Fathers put that requirement into The Constitution for a reason. They knew what they were doing.

 

[TimRB]

"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President

How long has Arnold been living here? That "OR a Citizen of the United States" bit has me thinking he's already eligible... I'm sure there is more to it though."

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The clause "at the time of the adoption of this constitution" modifies the "or a citizen..." part. Some of the founding fathers were not born here, so they had to put in a provision that would allow them to be president.

Tim

 

[HankB]

No.

The Constitution was written the way it was in order to check undue foreign influence. It's a good provision.

The more I think about it, the more I think I want to change my answer.

HELL NO!

 

[mtnbkr]

NO!!! on Ahhnold and NO to amending the Constitution for any other non-natural born citizen.

Chris

 

[MikeK]

Absolutely NOT!

 

[Outrigger]

No!!

 

[SMLE]

NO! NO! NO!

I just went to the link in the first post and voiced my opposition. We need to bury these twits in protest e-mails.

 

[dav]

No. Absolutely No.

Maybe California will vote for a movie star. I doubt the rest of the red states will.

Um, molonlabe, what do you think Ronald Reagan was, besides a California movie star, I mean...

 

[Hkmp5sd]

Nope.

 

[Silver Bullet]

Hmmm, looks like we're kinda split on this issue.

Half say "NO!", and half say "Absolutely Not!".

I'm going to go with "Of Course Not!"

It would be first Arnie , then Kofi Annan .

The concept of tinkering with the Constitution is scary; the whole thing could unravel if you get enough politicians who think they have more vision than the Founding Fathers.

 

[Waitone]

No.

Ahnuld is mistaken if he thinks he is a viable presidential candidate. His RINO ways may be necessary for political survival in Cali, but it ain't gonna flush in the confederacy.