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To: counterpunch
If a you must be native born to run to president, then why can the first lady be foreign born..?

Because there is nothing in the Constitution that forbids it.

11 posted on 07/31/2004 12:26:26 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

First Ladies were simply the wives of Presidents when the paperwork was written and as such, hostess of his home and State Hostess. The term First Lady came exclusively with Hillary. It has no official standing as a title.
Prior to that it was a term used sometimes, sometimes not.


18 posted on 07/31/2004 12:40:46 PM PDT by wingnuts'nbolts (Keep your eye on the donut, not on the hole.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Ummm.. it was more of a rhetorical question, designed to make you think.


26 posted on 07/31/2004 12:59:45 PM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Because there is nothing in the Constitution that forbids it.

Probably because that at the time the Constitution was written & ratified, women couldn't even vote.

49 posted on 07/31/2004 2:03:39 PM PDT by elli1
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