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"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.

I agree. And besides anyone who runs for President has their life examined with a microsope. Anyone who has been a citizen for 25 or 30 years (which takes several years of residency before that I believe) should be able to run.