I don't care which party is trying to introduce this bill, a bill like this has no place at all anywhere in the US congress.  A person born in a foreign land, lives there for 40 years, then comes to the US and stays here for 20 years so now this person can run for US President??  Get fucking real!!  Anyone who introduces such a bill should be thrown out congress and frankly thrown out of this country.  Simply unfucking believable that any member of the US congress would even contemplate such a thought.  Where the fuck do you people find these idiots and why do you people vote for them??

As a constitutional amendment, though, it will take a bit of work to get this one approved by everyone needed, even with the Repub majorities in the Legislature.

IF Arnie can keep everything under the rug in Cali for the rest of his term, I guarantee you if this amendment passed that he would win the Presidency.  Guaranteed.

the bill allows people that have been US citizens for TWENTY YEARS to run for president.  what's the rational for someone to not support this?  It's idiotic to have the requirement that president needs to be born in the US in the first place.  It's about time.

... everyone knows that I support Kerry.  The reasoning behind the "born in the US" rule makes little sense.  

At the same time, we should abolish the electorial college and elect presidents by direct voting.  

Both rules are basically anti-democratic.

I'm getting really sick of the disporportionate influence people in small states have over my vote.

Harry

to attempt to amend the Constitution through the processes provided for in it, rather than demanding that unelected judges write new provisions into it (e.g., abortion on demand; fag marriage).

That having been said, I oppose this proposal.  Amending the Constitution should always be done carefully and thoughtfully, and it seems too much like a Governator cult of personality to make this proposal now.  If we do it, it should not take effect until long after its ratification... say, at least forty or fifty years.

Prejudice – preconceived judgment or opinion, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge.

What makes you think all naturalized citizens "talk like they have a mouthful of shit"??  I know a lot of naturalized citizens who don’t have an accent and who speak a lot more clearly than many native-born Americans.  Hell, I had trouble understanding Ross Perot.

You’ve compared naturalized-citizens to Hussein, Bin-Laden, Ghadafi, Hitler, Mussolini, and the Ayatollah.  I know many naturalized citizens that are more aware of the community, current events, politics, government, American and world history and civics than most native-born Americans.  I know of naturalized citizens that are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and defending the Constitution while a recent survey showed that over half of the Americans polled didn’t even know what year the Declaration of Independence was signed.  Sure, let’s save the office of the president for native-born Americans like Tim McVey who bombs our cities and Lee Harvey Oswald who becomes a Communist and assassinates the president.

You said, "The Constitution says so, and it should remain so."  In 1919, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibited alcohol in the U.S.  This was repealed in 1933 through the 21st Amendment.  The Constitution has been in constant improvement for the last 217 years.  The Founding Fathers and past legislators were not infallible, they were human.

If you don’t like Schwarzenegger for president, don’t vote for him.  I wouldn’t vote for him either, but only because I don’t think he would make a good president, not because he wasn’t born in the U.S.  Don’t generalize your feelings for Arnold to all non-native-born Americans.  Frankly, looking at the people we’ve had to vote for in the last elections, I think we could use a few more choices.