Posted on 10/31/2004 7:54:11 PM PST by Stew Padasso
Schwarzenegger Talks White House What-Ifs
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he would be interested in running for president if the Constitution were amended to allow foreign-born citizens to seek the nation's highest office.
During an interview for Sunday's CBS program "60 Minutes," Schwarzenegger said, "Yes, absolutely" when asked if he would like to run and would support such an amendment.
Schwarzenegger, 57, had previously deflected the question.
"I think, you know, because why not? I mean, you know, anyone with my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top," the governor said. "But it's not something that I am preoccupied with.
"I am not thinking one single minute about that because there's so many things I have to do in California, and my promise was to straighten out the mess in California," he said.
Schwarzenegger, a native of Austria, came to the United States in 1968 and built a fortune as a champion body builder and actor. He won his first bid for public office in last year's gubernatorial recall election in California.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has proposed an amendment that would allow immigrants to run for president after being citizens for 20 years. Schwarzenegger became a citizen in 1983.
Doesn't bother me. I don't truck with RINOs.
No.
I'll set my own bar thank you. I just asked a question. Was his father one of Hitlers Nazi's ? If ya can't or don't want to answer the question just say so........
Beats me, man. I have more than enough reasons to dislike Schwarzenegger (the politician) for his own Liberal antics. I don't need to focus on his old man. And doing so only cheapens genuine opposition to the guy in my book.
Besides, if you're so fixated on Arnold's old man, why the hell don't you look it up yourself, kid?
Well at least yer good at graphics......Stay safe
Thanks, I think.
No amendment necessary! If Arnie wants to be president, let him go back to Austria and convince them to join the United States Of America as a new state. He would then be considered native born. If he's the leader he thinks he is, that's the ticket.
Hatch shouldn't be on the Senate Judiciary if he won't uphold the Constitution. He's a conservative Republican like Earl Warren was.
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