Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - View Single Post - Should the President necessarily be born in the US?

KnifeMissile · 10-10-2003, 02:10 PM

I'm sorry if this has been brought up before but I took a cursory look and didn't find it.

Anyway, I've heard from fark.com that some are trying to amend the constitution to allow American citizens not born in the US to become president. I was surprised by the number of people on their forum who are against allowing naturalized citizens to run for President. I always thought they were rather liberal (based on their opinions on other articles). I even think that the majority of the people there were against it! So, now I'm curious as to what the people of the Tilted Forum Project think...

I get the impression that it's considered somewhat rude to ask for an opinion without stating yours first so I'll just say this. While I think it's funny that they're basically doing this so that Arnold can run for president someday, I think that the current law is ridiculous. What purpose does it serve? What problems does it solve? As far as I can see, it's anachronistic and is more of a disservice than a service.

Of course, because I think this law is ridiculous, I also think opposition to the proposed amendment is equally so...

10-10-2003, 02:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
KnifeMissile Location: Waterloo, Ontario	Should the President necessarily be born in the US? I'm sorry if this has been brought up before but I took a cursory look and didn't find it. Anyway, I've heard from fark.com that some are trying to amend the constitution to allow American citizens not born in the US to become president. I was surprised by the number of people on their forum who are against allowing naturalized citizens to run for President. I always thought they were rather liberal (based on their opinions on other articles). I even think that the majority of the people there were against it! So, now I'm curious as to what the people of the Tilted Forum Project think... I get the impression that it's considered somewhat rude to ask for an opinion without stating yours first so I'll just say this. While I think it's funny that they're basically doing this so that Arnold can run for president someday, I think that the current law is ridiculous. What purpose does it serve? What problems does it solve? As far as I can see, it's anachronistic and is more of a disservice than a service. Of course, because I think this law is ridiculous, I also think opposition to the proposed amendment is equally so...