Sun Tzu

What about Arnold? Not considering what the founding fathers put forth as being wise; but I think the consitution leaves room for evolution. Not to say having someone serving a requirement would be evolution. The Constitution requires that a candidate for the presidency must be a "natural-born" citizen of the United States, at least 35 years of age, and a resident of the United States for at least 14 years.

So someone with parents that are citizens, but lived for 25 years in Iran, China, etc essentially raised outside of the US and spent 14 years in the US has eligability over someone like Arnold (a person that immigrated here took hold of the "American Dream" and even became govenor of a state. Does this seem an area that needs investigating; that may have not waranted such back at the birth of the consitution?

I also want to say again; Im not stating someone a candidate running that is on active duty.

I served under Bush Senior and the incoming of Clinton. There was significant aparency that CLinton had never served when he stepped in. Excluding all other issues I wont go into-- there were some that would have been better made to a Commander in Chief that had prior experience. IMO

There are numerous civilian roles of power in Congress and the Judicial Branch the balance the power. If a coup ever were to occur its my belief that it would start with an Active Duty officer that holds enormous rank and has earned the respect of an immense percentge of the armed forces. IMO

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