Would you support this? Allowing Foreign born folx to be President. I don't think I am ready for that yet. Rocket River http://my.ev1.net/english/news/newsarticle.asp?articleID=45577805&subject=headlines Ads Back Schwarzenegger for President California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger throws T-shirt to the crowd at "California Festival," a campaign for California tourism and agriculture in Tokyo, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004. Schwarzenegger is in Japan for a four-day publicity blitz for his state. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) Californians will soon see advertisements urging them to help give Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other foreign-born citizens the chance to run for president. The cable television ads, set to being running Monday, are from a Silicon Valley-based group that wants to amend the U.S. Constitution, which limits the presidency to people born in the United States. Schwarzenegger was born in Austria but became a U.S. citizen in 1983. "You cannot choose the land of your birth. You can choose the land you love," Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones says in the ads. She is a San Francisco Bay area mutual fund manager and major Schwarzenegger campaign donor who is helping pay for the ads and created a companion Web site. Schwarzenegger, 57, has said he would consider running for president if the Constitution allowed but hasn't pushed for a constitutional change. The TV ads mark the first significant attempt to build public support for an amendment. While polls show Schwarzenegger remains popular with voters, the idea of a constitutional change is not. Four proposed amendments are circulating in Congress, but none has advanced. Constitutional amendments require congressional approval and ratification by 38 states.
I don't think this will happen...probably shouldn't happen, either. A different question - I'm wondering, is Schwarzenegger more or less popular in California than he was when he was elected?
don't know why all our neo-con hillbilly posters haven't chimed in on this topic but allow me to speak for them: OVER MY DEAD BODY!
I think foreign born people should be allowed to run for president. It is not any more likely that a foreign government could gain control of the country in this way than they could by having an agent born in the US. I also think that a foreign born person who has chosen to live in the US and become a citizen will have their first allegiance be to the US and would not let their birthplace determine foreign policy decisions. Other than those reasons, I can't think of a good reason that a nation built on immigration should not have an immigrant in the highest office.
NO NO NO NO NO When I was 9 and I had the childhoood dream of becoming the Pres. of the U.S., I was sad to find out no foreigner can do it. I am now 21 and I have to say that allowing a foreign born U.S. is just a horrible idea. If there is someone really that great and can do a lot for the country, he'd be bettered serve as a cabinet member or an advisor.
Why are people against it? What if there was a residency requirement rather than a birthplace requirement?
