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Can you believe that someone paid $215,000 for the phone number 13-3333-3333 in China? Someone has way too much disposable income. Granted, my cell phone number is a mathematical sequence, and it was randomly assigned by Verizon Wireless when I got my phone back in September 2001. However, I would not pay for a special cell phone number.
President Schwarzenegger? Yes, you heard right. Mr. Terminator himself supports to amend the US constitution so he can run for President. I fully disagree with this, not because he is a Republican, but on principle. To change a 225+ year old document to suit one person's political desires is very dangerous. I would be opposed to changing the constitution for this reason, no matter who it was that wants to be president. I vote no for President Schwarzenegger.
My dad took me to lunch today. We went to the Rips in Bowie. My cream of crab soup had many shells in it, and the waitress spilled water on the table, which ended up on my jeans. Oh well.
posted by Matt @ 2:09 PM
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There are much worse constitutional amendments than one that allows foreign-born citizens to become President. For instance, that proposed amendment Bush supports to ban same sex marriage. And we all know how prohibition went.
There are plenty of talented foreign-born people in this country that would do a great job as President. Yes, Ahnold is one of them. I do not see a problem with allowing a well qualified foreign-born person to become president after having been a citizen for 21 or so years. This is not Europe where peoples have lived in the same place for many many centuries. We are a country of immigrants whose ancestors came over to better their lives and better their new country. The Presidency is the last remaining high-profile position in this country that is closed to them. They can be doctors, lawyers, scientists and even Senators, but not the ultimate leader.
Dan
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I have to stop typoing :-p
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That provision ,I believe, was written with the intent to avoid foreign influences and manipulaiton of elections. A concen that was pressed in the Federalist papers was that of tehe danger of "foreign force and influence". There seemed to be a danger from those born outside the country in the formative years of the nation... (It was common, for example for the 18th Century Eurpoean powers to keep agents abroad to attempt to meddle in another Nation's politics.)
I see that purpose being a bit long past.
Those of us who have emigrated to the US and naturalized have made as much of a contribution to the Country as those that are foreign born, and are becoming ... more and more... the face of what this Nation is becoming. We are becoming more and more -- a nation of immigrants...
Heaven send... Nowadays, some of us immigrant-types who have come here by choice have a better handle of what it means to be an American --customarily and value-wise -- than some of us who are native born. Some of us who have striven to natualize have pretty much made a point to achieve that goal.
I'd rather have a long # of years required of a naturalized citizen (you have to be a certain age if you're native born, anyway...), but I'd rather they not be excluded from that process anymore.
So because it is Arnold that is pushing for this that some are opposed to it? What if a person like Madeline Albright* (born: Eastern Europe but Naturalized) or Henry Kissinger (German-Born but Naturalized) had Presidential aspirations? Heck -- for that matter my sister (she doesn't...but still...) Maybe it is my prespective as a native-born daughter and sister of Naturalized citizens, but, I truely see something that needs to be a thing of the past.
~Trish~
* I remember questions about her ability to take up the President's office in the Line of Succession b/c of her Foreign-Born Status. AS Sec. of state she was quite up there!
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