Posted on 06/30/2011 11:56:04 AM PDT by mandaladon
Remember the buzz surrounding Arnold Schwarzenegger a few years ago, when the hot topic was whether he was upset that he couldn‘t run for president because he wasn’t a natural born citizen? It was a short-lived controversy, as Schwarzenegger understood the Constitution forbade it, and for the most part he was fine with it.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) might want to get a civics lesson from Schwarzenegger.
During a Tuesday hearing on the DREAM Act, Durbin recognized a group of young illegal aliens in attendance and said one of them may be “our president” some day.
“When I look around this room, I see America’s future, our doctors, our teachers, our nurses, our engineers, our scientists, our soldiers, our congressmen, our senators, and maybe our president,” he said, after the group stood and was recognized:
But there’s just one problem. As Schwarzenegger understands, the Constitution doesn’t allow that. CNS News explains:
Making the young people Durbin was speaking of eligible to become president would require more than passage of the DREAM Act, however. It would require a constitutional amendment.
As the U.S. Constitution now stands, even legal immigrants are not eligible to serve as president. Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution says: “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.”
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Dick (appropriately named) Durbin......
actually you do. it is called the citizenship test before being naturalized as a citizen. natural born citizens don’t have to take the test to vote.
. . . and a full-fledged, one hundred percent idiot to boot!!
That ever happens I’ll kill myself! Afterwards...........
Duke, I like the way you think!
With Democrats Charles Manson could be president some day.
Dick Head you could, with a lot of rehabilitation even hold a job at McDonald’s meanwhile shut the hell up.
Where’s the part of the story that said how the known “illegal immigrants” were rounded up and deported after the event????
Typical liberals...”suspend” Halperin for telling the truth.
The test nowadays is “disparate impact.” If a civics test kept more blacks (or hispanics, or old folks, or gays) from voting than it did whites, then it would be considered “racist.”
That is one of the reasons I have less and less problem with some or something being “racist.”
Barry Soetoro, Barack H. Obama, Steve Dunham blazing the path for other mystery candidates from far away places that we know nothing about.
Ping!
Democrat Senator: Illegal Alien Could Be Our Future President (Durbin Flubs the Constitution)
I’m 62-years old, and Illinois has ALWAYS been known to be “corrupt”. It goes back to the old “organized crime days”-—they STILL think like that today. They seem to love the shadiness of “crime life”!
I agree with you TOTALLY!
GREAT idea!
And the Republicans are doing absolutely NOTHING about it! They need to get “pro-active”. They NEED to come back with an admonishment of Durbin, and tell him he needs to take a government class!
He should have said, “You can have my seat in Congress someday” and it probably wouldn’t have produced a much worse person sitting in Congress.
There probably won’t be any ‘Congress’ as we know it, by then.
If it still exists, it’ll be nothing more than a regional legislative body for the World Government............
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