Foreign Born Should Not Serve As President

Constitution Party National Committee ^ | July 29, 2003 | Constitution Party National Committee

[KCmark]

I say go the other way. Second generation at least. First generation can still have some quirks passed on by the parents. By the second, they are all American, no matter what their parents try to teach. JMHO.

[Libertina]

Need for term limits ditto!

[Arrowhead1952]

"So, one must wonder, is the GOP so hard up for decent candidates for public office that they have to begin importing them?"

Since when has the GOP had an imported candidate running for president? Seems to me, with the ACLU, NAALCP, NOW, etc., the dims are the party more likely to have an imported candidate for president.

[MattAMiller]

Presidents have to be elected. A foreign power can't simply shove someone into the Presidency.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

There have been studies that say first generation Americans are the most patriotic, because they learn at their mother's knee what freedom means in this country, compared to "the old country", whichever country that may be.

Just an aside...

[KCmark]

I've seen both, but with the first there is a chance. Two generations and the freedom is engrained. I think we all agree transplants shouldn't be President.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Transplants should never be presidents, I agree. I don't know how anyone could rationally defend such a position. Because, wouldn't this raise a flag as to questioning the allegiance of a foreign born candidate for the presidency?

To me, that would be much more scandalous than say the question that was raised when Kennedy was president, if his Catholicism would mean he was taking direction from the Pope.

[CJ Wolf]

"A foreign power can't simply shove someone into the Presidency."

Yes, but it has been proven that they can buy Bill Clinton as a proxy.

[jokar]

Franklin was a lightweight. John Adams was da man.

I agree. Prehaps you missed my point. Orin Hatch is unqualified to sit in the same room as the originators of our nation.

[Don Corleone]

Bob Hope couldn't be President

John Walker Lindh could be President.

William Jefferson Blythe Clinton SHOULDN'T have been president!

[The Coopster]

Where are you when the bloated 1000 plus post threads beating the Civil War dead horse show up in breaking news?

[Honcho]

Just a chance for me to get my man Adams in there ;) Your point was well taken btw.

[joesnuffy]

we must allow the foreign born to become our el presidente del norte
that way Fox or Schwartzenegger or Gorby or even Pooty Poot could be our president..
or even one of the Moors

[Jakarta ex-pat]

So I'm born to an American couple outside of America Vs an "illegal" born in America, the latter gets the presidency?