Foreign Born President? Congress Eyes Amendment

Mobile Register from the San Francisco Chronicle | August 13, 2003

[timydnuc]

Note to the sponsors of this amendment:NO FREAKING WAY PALLIE!

[Teacher317]

Barbra Streisand. We should be able to elect anyone we wish to be president. This country is run by and for the people. If that's what the people want, they deserve it. The same goes for limiting presidents to two terms.

YEAH! Who cares about silly little traditions like safeguarding the nation from life-long tyrants, from electing those who have no allegiance to this nation, or Constitutional limitations, anyway? Those old notions are just worthless in these enlightened modern times! Why, with the great increase in the numbers of non-citizens voting, we could even see a Mexican citizen, a Chinese citizen, or even the Pope himself (herself?!?) elected President of the USofA! Wouldn't that be great, to express our fondness for diversity that way?

/venom-dripping sarcasm>

[Ronaldus Magnus]

I expect to see a freely elected Muslim leader of France in my life time. By linear estimates, Muslims will be the ethic plurality by 2055. It will be the first step toward the next fascism of people voting away their constitutional republics. This time in favor of Islamic oligarchies.

[gcruse]

Drip all you like, but try not to get any of it on your bare skin. Having term limits didn't stop Clinton for selling the country out to the Chinese, did it?

If the country had wanted Ronald Reagan for a third term, why shouldn't we have been able to elect him? I don't have to tell you that we would have been able to up until the mid-twentieth century.

During the previous two hundred years, how many life-long tyrants did we have? BTW, something fifty years old in a two-century old republic isn't really 'a tradition.'

[Wolfhound777]

Austrian born Arnold Schwarzenegger is still a long way from being elected California's Governor, but proposed Constitutional amendments that would allow foreign born citizens such as the action movie star to become President will be debated in Congress this autumm.



WTF!!! I hope this is a joke. If not, this needs to be resoundingly defeated asap. This will set a truly dangerous precedent.

[ladyinred]

Why shouldn't we have had Reagan for three terms. Because we have a law that prohibits that. We could just as easily have had Clinton for 3 or 4 terms, no thanks.

Don't want a naturalized citizen either, that is unconstitutional and for good reason.

[Liberal Classic]

Life imitates art!

[Vin-B]

ClearBlueSky,

I could not agree with you more regarding changes to this. Proponents indicate this amendment is outdated - but it's with these same proponents that the Constitution itself is outdated.

If these proponents keep having their way - we won't have a Constitution, or an acknowledgement of God Who's behind our rights - Who once removed will leave little resistance toward rewriting all of the Constitution to say everything it doesn't say about what rights we have or don't have.

[ClearBlueSky]

Thank you, Vin-B!
The fundamental truth behind accepting Islam as just one more religion is that it is the ONLY 'religion' that will- if it's goals are reached- elminate the Constitution. Islamic countries are ruled by the Koran. The followers of the Koran recognize NO law above Islam.
Cultural diversity and equanimity STOP with Islam. The world, and the news, is proof of that.
When you have people who will USE the Constitution to destroy the Constitution, you have a cunning enemy indeed. And when you have people too blind to that fact, who think they are upholding the Constitution by giving that enemy their opportunity, you have the death of a country and culture by stupidity.
That's how I see it.