The Arnold Amendment...

DrummerDeanna · #1 11-09-2004, 04:43 PM

So there's this story on NPR as I type about the possibility of amending the constitution in order to get rid of the requirment that a presidential candidate be born in the U.S.

SO it looks as though the Republicans are also looking to 2008 already...

Any thoughts on this??

Merf · #2 11-09-2004, 04:49 PM

Everytime someone mentions the hypothetical "Arnold Amendment," it always makes me think of the Sylvester Stallone/Wesley Snipes movie "Demolition Man," in which Sly wakes up in the year 2032 and learns that Arnold Schwarzenegger had been president "while he was sleeping."

Personally, I'm more in favor of Arnold as a Republican candidate than say ANOTHER FRIGGING BUSH (Jeb), Frist, Romney, or any of the other names being thrown around. At least Ahnald has more moderate/liberal leaning views on social policies-- pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-environment...

PS. If they're going to change the constitution to amend the presidential requirments, they should also get rid of the EC, whose usefulness has run its course.

gldstwmn · #3 11-09-2004, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

So there's this story on NPR as I type about the possibility of amending the constitution in order to get rid of the requirment that a presidential candidate be born in the U.S.

SO it looks as though the Republicans are also looking to 2008 already...

Any thoughts on this??

Sponsored by Orin Hatch of Utah. No way it's going to happen. Possible argument? Osama Bin Laden could run for president.

chiliD · #4 11-09-2004, 04:51 PM

Another possible argument...Hitler was Austrian, yet elected Chancellor of Germany.

Merf · #5 11-09-2004, 04:52 PM

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Sponsored by Orin Hatch of Utah. No way it's going to happen. Possible argument? Osama Bin Laden could run for president.

Well, I guess since those idiots in the White House haven't CAUGHT him yet, anything is possible...

Orin Hatch makes me want to diiiiiiiiiie.

DrummerDeanna · #6 11-09-2004, 04:57 PM

well the story on NPR interviewed some Republican whose name I didn't catch and he said there was no way he would ever support Ahnold because he's too liberal - especially on the social and "homosexual issues"

gldstwmn · #7 11-09-2004, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by chiliD

Another possible argument...Hitler was Austrian, yet elected Chancellor of Germany.

Heh. I like that one even better.

gldstwmn · #8 11-09-2004, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Merf

Well, I guess since those idiots in the White House haven't CAUGHT him yet, anything is possible...

Haha.

markolas · #9 11-09-2004, 05:53 PM

Absolutely not, and I truly hope that people see what an abysmally bad idea this is. Why do Republicans call themselves conservatives when they're constantly trying to rewrite the Constitution? What exactly are they conserving?

ontheEdgeof17 · #10 11-09-2004, 05:59 PM

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Absolutely not, and I truly hope that people see what an abysmally bad idea this is. Why do Republicans call themselves conservatives when they're constantly trying to rewrite the Constitution? What exactly are they conserving?

Good point

Some of their rewrites though is to keep it conservative instead of changing with the times.....

Merf · #11 11-09-2004, 06:10 PM

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Good point

Some of their rewrites though is to keep it conservative instead of changing with the times.....

Hey, I'm all for progress and change, but I just don't see the point in amending the constitution so much. I've only been alive since 1981, but I swear I cannot remember an Administration (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Duh-bya) wanting so many freaking amendments to the constitution.

amber · #12 11-09-2004, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by markolas

Absolutely not, and I truly hope that people see what an abysmally bad idea this is. Why do Republicans call themselves conservatives when they're constantly trying to rewrite the Constitution? What exactly are they conserving?

Their right to circumvent the rights that the constitution affords all the rest of the citizens...

estranged4life · #13 11-09-2004, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

So there's this story on NPR as I type about the possibility of amending the constitution in order to get rid of the requirment that a presidential candidate be born in the U.S.

SO it looks as though the Republicans are also looking to 2008 already...

Any thoughts on this??

"John McVie in 2008"

Brian "The Penguin Party" j.

GypsySorcerer · #14 11-09-2004, 06:58 PM

Say Arnold wasn't a factor in this. Would anyone support this Amendment then? Isn't it sort of a discriminatory requirement? I mean, with the exception of Native Americans, weren't all our ancestors immigrants?

estranged4life · #15 11-09-2004, 07:06 PM

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Say Arnold wasn't a factor in this. Would anyone support this Amendment then? Isn't it sort of a discriminatory requirement? I mean, with the exception of Native Americans, weren't all our ancestors immigrants?

y'all are descendant of immigrants (I'm Cherokee so "nyah nyah nyah nyah"...Just kiddin' y'all!)

That's what cracks me up about supremacists...They seem to forget nearly ALL Americans are descended from immigrants!

Brian j.