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[Prime Choice]

The United States has allowed non-American's to be president before.

Name them and when they served.

[Taggart_D]

Clinton promised to end welfare as we know it.

I don't remember a promise like that....but I do remember that the welfare reform during the time was FORCED onto Clinton by a Republican congress....and the increase in the stock market during that time can be tracked ALMOST TO THE DAY that the Republicans took over the check book in the house!

[Clypp]

Chester Arthur, the 21st person to hold the presidency was born 1829 in Dunham Flats, Quebec. He moved to the United States at the age of one.

[BobL]

"Clinton promised to end welfare as we know it."

"I don't remember a promise like that...."

No - he did, and it was central in his 1992 campaign. After he was elected, he was told by the Dem-controlled Congress, in no uncertain term, that the idea was DOA (not that his heart was ever in it, in the first place).

I was only when, as you noted, the Republicans forced it down his throat did it get to his desk - and was signed (to his credit).

[Prime Choice]

Chester Arthur, the 21st person to hold the presidency was born 1829 in Dunham Flats, Quebec. He moved to the United States at the age of one.

This would be interesting, were it not for Title 8 of the U.S. Code, Section 1401, which defines citizens of the United States at birth as:

• Anyone born inside the United States
• Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
• Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
• Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
• Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
• Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
• Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
• A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.

And it's a bit interesting that Arthur was apparently the last such "foreigner" allowed into our highest office. Sounds like we learned our lesson.

[Col Freeper]

I have no objection to changing that requirement of native birth.

I do.

I also don't think it will ever happen.

[Mo1]

Don't think so

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

THAT looks an awful lot like Kool-Aid.

[nj26]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ca21.html

White House bio says he was born in Vermont.

[BobL]

"White House bio says he was born in Vermont."

Nice job on the research. Looks like there's deception taking place on this thread. Obviously someone wants this amendment real bad.

...and that's precisely what raises my suspicions about the whole thing.

[nj26]

The deception might be that the Dems using the RINO crowd to push through an amendment. They've got a very photogenic moderate governor in Michigan who might just give Hillary a run for her money, if she had the chance.

[calcowgirl]

I think you could ratchet that "you are here" sign toward the donkey a bit. But I'm confused... shouldn't the Donkey's be on the Left?
It's kinda like that Blue-State/Red-State thing for me. I just can't stop thinking of Dems as RED! LOL.

[farmfriend]

Would the jackwits who want to alter the Constitution to accommodate this RINO please step forward now?

There are quite a few on this site still drinking his cool aid.

[506trooper]

This certainly is surprising coming from Republican of Aah-nolds stature.
< /sarcasm>

[Colorado Buckeye]

That is a most excellent picture.... a keeper.

[ovrtaxt]

Attend a 9th grade history class and get back to us.

[Colorado Buckeye]

It's kinda like that Blue-State/Red-State thing for me. I just can't stop thinking of Dems as RED! LOL.

We really didn't have much choice. The Dems simply wouldn't accept being labelled red even though it fits.

[Prime Choice]

But I'm confused... shouldn't the Donkey's be on the Left?

One major problem if that had been reversed: we read left-to-right. Reversing the order would have destroyed the gag.

And, weirdly enough, only Arabic reads right-to-left.

[shibumi]

I would post a comment, but I think the tag says it all.

[Prime Choice]

By the way, I looked up information on Chester Arthur. Your claim that he was born in Quebec is false.

Chester Alan Arthur, 21st President of the United States of America, was born October 5, 1829 at Fairfield, Vermont.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ca21.html