molonlabe said:Maybe California will vote for a movie star. I doubt the rest of the red states will.
Isn't that what the antis are telling us we should be doing with the first part of 2A? It doesn't matter what the reason was, it matters only what it says, whether that is "...shall not be infringed" (for whatever reason) or "No Person except a natural born Citizen...". If we want Ahhhnold to be President, amend the Constitution to allow it. Otherwise it becomes a "living document", kinda like a jellyfish, rather than a dead thing like a slab of granite that takes some effort to change.We'd be a lot better off as a nation if more people looked deeper into the Founding Father's reasoning, everything in there is there for a good reason, once you find out what it is, it's often like a smack in the head. "I should have thought of that." Man those were some smart guys.
I believe that "Citizen of the United States" and "at the time of the Adoption of this constitution" belong together so that they wouldn't be excluding themselves from the office (since the United States didn't exist at the time of their birth, none of them were natural born Citizens.) So, since Ahhhhnold was n't a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, he couldn't get in on this.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
If you go to the site, you find it titled AmendForArnold&Jen
Good point. RR had a clear conservative agenda Arnold has not done anything to impress me much. Of course that may change but right now he is just a movie star and will remain so until he has a record.Posted by Dav
Um...what about Ronald Reagan?
grnzbra said:Isn't that what the antis are telling us we should be doing with the first part of 2A? It doesn't matter what the reason was, it matters only what it says, whether that is "...shall not be infringed" (for whatever reason) or "No Person except a natural born Citizen...". If we want Ahhhnold to be President, amend the Constitution to allow it. Otherwise it becomes a "living document", kinda like a jellyfish, rather than a dead thing like a slab of granite that takes some effort to change.