I didn't compare them at all. I simply used felons to point out that even if an American has some restrictions on what they can do, that does not make them less of an American.
Should the requirements to become the POTUS be changed?
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I didn't compare them at all. I simply used felons to point out that even if an American has some restrictions on what they can do, that does not make them less of an American.
@V
You don't see a problem with me being eligible, even should I live in Canada for the next 20 years, yet someone such as Elaine Chao isn't?
You don't see a problem with me being eligible, even should I live in Canada for the next 20 years, yet someone such as Elaine Chao isn't?
You wouldn't be if you've lived in Canada for the last 20 years. And no, it's not vague. Obviously the intent is for someone to be here for the last 14 years. My interpretations are always right, don't forget. Military and government service overseas in the service of your country of course would not count as being overseas for this (my interpretation again).
I adore your mind, V.
But I would be eligible and Elaine Chao, or Granholm wouldn't. That's not right.
I'm just answering the thread question. Obviously it's a nonstarter. My Congressman is too busy trying not to alienate the birfer and teabagging part of his base.
Leonel
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I don't understand the risk of foreign influence thing. Children born and raised in a good ol' American family with 2.5 children become rabid communists and anti-Americans all the time. Just look at Berkeley! They don't just love communism, they LUST communism!
If anything, a US president born outside the US should be a boon for America. At the least, the president would be fully aware that there is a world outside the borders. At most, he or she might have seen things about other governments that worked and might work better than what's already here in the US.
Perhaps they might have seen an aspect of public healthcare that saved money and helped the most at the same time. Maybe the advantages of living in a different tax system. Experienced the benefits of a well funded public transportation system. Maybe even truly understand what drives a terrorist or a rogue nation to do what it does and be able to completely defuse them through the right combination of words.
Make them swear an oath. Any foreign born candidate would be put up to the tightest and closest of scrutiny decades before they actually declare their candidacy. If they are indeed under foreign influence, they'll have slipped up somewhere. If anything, foreign influences would most likely try homegrown agents to decrease the amount of suspicion.
If anything, a US president born outside the US should be a boon for America. At the least, the president would be fully aware that there is a world outside the borders. At most, he or she might have seen things about other governments that worked and might work better than what's already here in the US.
Perhaps they might have seen an aspect of public healthcare that saved money and helped the most at the same time. Maybe the advantages of living in a different tax system. Experienced the benefits of a well funded public transportation system. Maybe even truly understand what drives a terrorist or a rogue nation to do what it does and be able to completely defuse them through the right combination of words.
Make them swear an oath. Any foreign born candidate would be put up to the tightest and closest of scrutiny decades before they actually declare their candidacy. If they are indeed under foreign influence, they'll have slipped up somewhere. If anything, foreign influences would most likely try homegrown agents to decrease the amount of suspicion.
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