1 posted on
11/12/2003 9:41:11 PM PST by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Oh good. Which requirement will be next to fall?
2 posted on
11/12/2003 9:43:44 PM PST by
WinOne4TheGipper
(Progressives- people who seek the right to child sacrifice (to the god of self- convenience).)
To: kattracks
Absolutely not. I don't care HOW qualified Schwarzenegger may be for POTUS ... you cannot make a Constitutional policy decision based on one person.
So, how about someone who's a naturalized AQ or PRC sleeper? NIGHTMARE!
3 posted on
11/12/2003 9:45:16 PM PST by
bootless
(Never Forget)
To: kattracks
Hatch needs to go.
4 posted on
11/12/2003 9:45:46 PM PST by
PRND21
To: kattracks
I've met immigrants that have lived in America for 20+ years and still didn't speak fluent English. I like the current criteria but then I favor an enduring, not living, Constitution.
To: kattracks
But that concern, says Mr. Hatch, is hardly so compelling today. It is extremely dangerous to presume that our Founding Fathers' wishes are irrelevant. It is thinking of that kind that leads to the perceived obsolescence of the framework of our Constitution.
The Left has long engaged in this sort of dangerous thinking with respect to our Second Amendment rights. I am dismayed that any Republican should start entertaining such notions about foreign-born people being eligible for the Presidency.
I for one will not tolerate this stepchild to treason.
6 posted on
11/12/2003 9:47:08 PM PST by
Prime Choice
(This Post is Rated "Conservative": May Be Too Intense for Liberal Viewers.)
To: kattracks
Because Mr. Hatch and Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger, the soon-to-be California governor, are said to be close friends, the senator's measure has been skeptically dubbed the Schwarzenegger amendment. The history of Austrian expatriots becoming head of state of their adopted countries is not good.
8 posted on
11/12/2003 9:55:04 PM PST by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: kattracks
Vincinte Fox elected US President!!!!!
Illegal alien vote goes 99% for the former Mexico President!
10 posted on
11/12/2003 10:11:46 PM PST by
GeronL
(Visit www.geocities.com/geronl.....and.....www.returnoftheprimitive.com)
To: kattracks
No way, no how. Over my dead body, or more likely, after my body has expatriated.
11 posted on
11/12/2003 10:13:15 PM PST by
squidly
To: kattracks
..... er ........ NO!
12 posted on
11/12/2003 10:16:17 PM PST by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(PEACE - Through Superior Firepower)
To: kattracks
Mr. Hatch calls his proposal the "Equal Opportunity to Govern" amendment.
Gimme a break!!!
To: kattracks
Mr. Hatch acknowledges what most scholars regard as the reason the Framers denied eligibility to naturalized citizens: concern that a foreign power might place someone inside the young and fragile nation and contrive to have that person elected president.
But that concern, says Mr. Hatch, is hardly so compelling today. Of course Madelyn Albright didn't pose any threat to "long lived" America even though she said that America being the world's lone superpower scared her.
Fifth columnists and traitors can come from within America but those who were not born here are not always loyal to America. Some refuse to renounce their birth country citizenship even though the US has a loyalty oath for naturalized citizens and does not recognize dual citizenship (Petah Jennings is a lying liar among them).
Why not lower the age requirement too? Let's get Max Frost running America:
15 posted on
11/12/2003 10:25:24 PM PST by
weegee
To: kattracks
Every time I see this proposed, I remember how the fall of the Roman Empire was dated to a barbarian becoming Caesar.
But I had a thought, the other day... How many of you would support a Constitutional amendment eliminating the American nativity requirement for Presidents, if the Amendment also removed the automatic grant of citizenship to anyone born on American soil?
17 posted on
11/12/2003 11:10:31 PM PST by
fire_eye
To: kattracks
Everyone here is missing a big part of this topic. There has already been one foreign born US President: Arthur St. Clair.
He was one of the 10 Presidents before George Washington, under the Articles of Confederation. He was born in Scotland, and was a General in the Revolutionary War.
The 10 men before Washington need to be recognized and listed as US Presidents, and if they ever are, we will already have had a foreign born President.
To: kattracks
I'd prefer we expanded the prohibition on naturalized citizens in government to include the Cabinet, Congress, the Supreme Court, and a number of other powerful and/or sensitive positions.
If we don't, we might get a Czech born Secretary of State who gets us into a war in the Balkans!
19 posted on
04/03/2004 12:30:55 AM PST by
squidly
(I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosity he excites among his opponents)
To: kattracks
Why fix what ain't broke?
20 posted on
04/03/2004 12:36:30 AM PST by
Texasforever
(I can’t kill enough brain cells to become a democrat just by drinking.)
To: kattracks
Everybody mentions Arnold Schwarzeneggar as a foreign born presidential candidate.Don't forget Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm a democrat who was born in Canada.The media has been mentioning her name long before Schwarzeneggar ran for office.If Granholm was born in the U.S. she probably would be on a short list for Vice-President.Michigan is an important swing state and has 17 electoral votes.
26 posted on
04/03/2004 12:44:50 AM PST by
dancusa
To: kattracks
Exactly. The Hatch Amendment is in search of a rationale. No one claims that if we don't have it, we'll be deprived of qualified candidates for our nation's highest federal office. I too am foreign born and am ineligible to be President but that doesn't exclude me nor does it exclude millions of naturalized fellow Americans from serving our country in other capacities.
32 posted on
04/03/2004 1:47:27 AM PST by
goldstategop
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