Posted on 10/05/2004 5:00:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - A Senate hearing on a proposed constitutional amendment to permit foreign-born citizens like Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for president demonstrated many things Tuesday, including that it's a bigger issue than the governor.
Some Democrats and Republicans backed the amendment. Others expressed deep skepticism. But bridging the gap between them was the suggestion that whatever is done, it probably should not apply to current politicians.
Only once was Schwarzenegger mentioned by name in the two-hour Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, and then by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach, in a passing reference.
"The hearing would not be complete if the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger was not mentioned once," said Rohrabacher, who recently introduced a House bill to lift the constitutional ban on foreign-born presidents.
Later, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California's senior Democratic senator, also referred to the governor but only to emphasize that no one had approached her about the need to change the constitution for him.
Feinstein joined Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, in declaring themselves skeptics on the issue. Feinstein said the consequence of the provision was that her foreign-born mother could not run for president, but that might not have been bad.
"I'm not sure it's damaging to go through that first generation," she said.
But Feinstein said she hasn't made up her mind on the constitutional amendment, which she said isn't going to move anytime soon anyway.
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You haven't answered a thing. You don't know jack about the Constitution.
You don't like foreign nationals. Well gollee, Bamaboy, there's a surprise from America's little "Third World craphole" No wonder you wanna freeze the Constitution in time, that's when "them coloreds" knew their place and your state wasn't the 49th worst performer in the USA in terms of poverty, education, healthcare, infant mortality and economic vitality. You are in last place in damn near every measure of health, prosperity and well being in the United States of America. But ... it's them forigners that's problem like! Like the Yanks did to y'all in the Civil War!
I spent a good deal of time in your state supporting BellSouth sales reps out of Birmingham, and I was a frequent traveler to Huntsville as a vendor and customer to Adtran. I'll never forget a flood-forced detour I was forced to make traveling form Huntsville to Birmingham via Gasden. I've seen better housing and conditions outside Sao Paulo, Brazil. I'll bet there are still good old boys driving around aimlessly tonight confused after the Talladega race Sunday.
You guys need to be force fed a "Living Document". We should empty your state and fill it with foreign nationals, it'd be better for the American group. Judge Moore told me so.
BTW, I live in Minnesota to set up your rebuttal. Lay it on me Buford, we're going Conservative and our kids can read, we have teeth, and our folks aren't falling over dead at age 50.
Dear lord, I'm about to go to bed and that's one of the last things I see.
I blame any nightmares on you!
I wish we would have been there to grab your dingy kin when they stumbled off the boat and dumped them back into the sea.
See how the bigotry works? You don't have to be better, you have to be first.
Sorry, you lose. But that's something you probably understand.
OOOOOppppppsss.
Sorry, I didn't mean to direct that at you. I was just making a general statement to all. My bad.
S'okay!
:-)
When the politicians currently in office start considering outsourcing the presidency, it is a signal that we should 'clean house' on both sides of the aisle!!!
Al Gore emphatically agrees with you.
The "Alexander Hamilton" clause.
all this 'President Soros' 'President Annan' stuff is nonsense. You would have to be an American citizen for 25 to 30 years. And to become a citizen you have to have residency for 5 or 6 years don't you? And to be elected President you have to have some sort of background...VP, governor, Senator...this is not a call to make the office avaiable to 'foreigners'. Naturalized citizens are no longer foreigners. the Presidency should be open to all American citizens. Just like every other govermental office is.
Why do you even bother denying that you're Arne Fufkin when you do such a $hitty job of covering it up?
"Arne Fufkin"
What's an Arne Fufkin?
Arne Fufkin is the former FReeper name of Barlowmaker.
See how the bigotry works? You don't have to be better, you have to be first.
So nationalism is bigotry. Thus nation=hate?
Silly leftist deconstructionism.
Sorry, you lose. But that's something you probably understand.
No raspberry?
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