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To: Jon Alvarez
Gee, "Amending the Constitution is much too serious for guaranteeing the Right to Life or the codifying the Sanctity of Marriage" but we must now consider it so that someone, not born in America, can run for President?

Pardon me, but that is really such a simplistic and selfish desire at this time of really important time to be even considered worth discussion.

I believe that the liberals in the media circles are once again talking up their ideas then hoisting them on the American people.

41 posted on 11/23/2004 11:47:00 AM PST by zerosix
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To: zerosix
"Pardon me, but that is really such a simplistic and selfish desire at this time of really important time to be even considered worth discussion."

It's too "simplistic" to be worth discussion? Too "selfish"? I'm not sure what's wrong with something being simplistic. As for being "selfish", Arnold wants the same right as every native born U.S. citizen has.

From my perspective there needs to be a compelling public interest to justify denying a group like naturalized U.S. citizens a right that other citizens possess, such as the right to be eligible to be elected President.

When the US was founded there may have been such a compelling public interest. The US was worried about foreign powers supporting candidates that were loyal to them, and a relatively uninformed U.S. electorate putting them into power. This reasoning may have made sense then, but it doesn't make sense now when people have easy access to information, and competing candidates have access to paid media to point out such facts about their opponents.
59 posted on 11/23/2004 11:57:27 AM PST by Moral Hazard
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