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To: cynwoody

If that’s true then we have a hole in our constitution that any foreign billionaire could drive a truck through. Let’s say some 30 year old saudi billionaire jerkface dumps $2B into an election, gets elected and spreads all kinds of payola around to congress. Suddenly that 35 year old requirement for eligibility is toast.

Our founding fathers were concerned that someone with divided loyalties would angle their way through the system and that is the source of this “natural born” requirement.


65 posted on 09/02/2008 11:14:02 AM PDT by Kevmo (Obama Birth Certificate is a Forgery. http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/certifigate/index?tab=articles)
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To: Kevmo
If that’s true then we have a hole in our constitution that any foreign billionaire could drive a truck through. Let’s say some 30 year old saudi billionaire jerkface dumps $2B into an election, gets elected and spreads all kinds of payola around to congress. Suddenly that 35 year old requirement for eligibility is toast.

General Scott might object.

Actually, you can click here for a real example from the last presidential election, in which the late Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones attempted to decertify Ohio's electoral votes.

68 posted on 09/02/2008 11:24:53 AM PDT by cynwoody
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