After as stupid a statement as that one, I just lost interest in this conversation.
Thank you for playing and have a nice evening.
...non-sequitur, straw man and red herring all rolled into one...
It's not a non sequitur. The argument was that foreign-born citizens might have conflicts of interest and should therefore be barred from the Presidency, and it logically follows that other citizens who might have conflicts of interest should also be barred from the Presidency. It's a reductio ad absurdum: if one believes that the potential conflict should not be a bar to Catholics, Jews, Hispanics, or other groups that might be conflicted, it should be no bar to the foreign-born either.
George W. Bush was born in New Haven, CT. Had he been born a few miles to the north, across the Canadian border, and moved to this country as a baby, would he be a worse President?
I do not support this Amendment so that Schwarzenegger can be President... nor, for that matter, for the sake of Albright, Soros, or Granholm. I support this Amendment because nobody has control over the accident of his birth, and some of the most fiercely patriotic Americans are immigrants.