Posted on 02/02/2005 5:02:44 AM PST by goldstategop
Hatch, who has known Schwarzenegger for at least a decade, introduced the Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment in July 2003. It would allow people who have been citizens for 20 years to serve as president. Schwarzenegger was naturalized in September 1983.
In October 2003, four days before California's recall election that made Schwarzenegger governor, the Utah senator said in a speech in Washington that he could see Schwarzenegger as president.
"If he turns out to be a tremendous leader and he proves to everybody in this country that he's totally dedicated to this country as an American," Hatch said, "we would be wrong not to give him that opportunity."
Over the last two years, Hatch's amendment in the Senate has been joined by three similar amendments in the House. U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) sponsored an amendment with a similar 20-year citizenship requirement, saying that Granholm, the foreign-born governor of his state, "would make an outstanding candidate."
On a different front, Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.), one of a group of lawmakers who work on international adoption issues, introduced an amendment that would allow citizens of 35 years' standing to be president. It drew a dozen co-sponsors. Snyder's niece, who was adopted from South Korea as a baby, "is a teenager now, and she is very much aware that she's not eligible to run for president," he says.
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Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."
NO!
Orrin Hatch has forgotten his oath of office - "To protect the Constitution of the United States ..."
I live in Michigan. Our canadian governor would not make a great president. We are currently enjoying about a 7.3% unemployment rate because Jenny from the block and her handlers in big labor (UAW and MEA)have determined that manual labor jobs are the wave of the future. Conyers is her big champion because Jenny from the block stated during the democrap primary for governor that she supported reparations. Jenny from the block--bad for Michigan; terrible for the USA.
Are they thinking at all of the repurcussions of changing the amendment for this part-of-the-hollywierd crowd?
Once the constitution is amended for what they are assuming is for this one person, they are opening the doors to every foreign person who comes to these shores.
I am willing to bet the next group to beg for this will be the progressive RINO group of Whitman.
I don't think so.
They are just playing to the public to get support.
It is wrong plain and simple, leave the Constitution alone.
how about repealing the 22nd instead of the 28th? W vs Bubba in 2008!
W in a landslide.
Just how many states does that need to be voted on and passed by? 34?
38 for ratification.
No
Of course not. But where are the successors? Are we collectively in the grip of mass myopia?
Let's not let the Dems comic strip scenario on who they are placing their bets lull us into self-satisfied complacency.
Where are our Heros?
Whaddya mean? You can be elected twice right? Dont the libs all claime that he was SELECTED for his 1st term? Doesn't that give W the right to run in 08?
I mean, they can't have it both ways......
Why not? After all, he IS a big guy...
They ALL forgot this....including Bush!
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