PRESIDENT ARNOLD?

This is Bizarro World, it could happen. And it will happen if Republican Senator from Utah Orrin Hatch has his way. See, since July, Hatch has been shoving through the Senate a resolution that would allow any naturalized citizen who has lived in the US for twenty years to run for president. Currently, the US Constitution says that if you were not born in the US, you cannot run for the highest office in the US. According to an article at the Utne Reader web site, Arnold has been living in the US since 1968.

And just in case you're thinking that resolution could never pass with the 3/4 majority it needs, take a look at some of the other things that the USGov has said "OK!" to in the past couple years:

1) Forgoing a proper election that allows Congress to determine the winner of a disputed election (as the Constitution requires), the USGov allowed the Supreme Court, where just five people are required to determine the outcome of any case, to name the next President of the United States. (And relax, this isn't about who won or lost, it's how the game was played!)

2) The Patriot Act, which most Democrat law makers claim they didn't even have time to read before they voted "YES" on it.

3) The Iraq Attack, called by some Operation Iraqi Freedom, this sequel to the 1991 Box Office success, Desert Storm, essentially featured a bunch of no-name generals waging war against a sovereign member of the United Nations that had not attacked any US interests, leveled any threats, and was technically protected by the United Nations Charter. This action put the USGov in violation of International Law and alienated most of the rest of the planet.

Kind of makes a President with a foreign accent sound like no big deal, huh?

... be afraid... be very afraid!

Read the short article at the Utne Reader about the resolution that Orrin Hatch is trying to get passed in Washington.




From The Utne Reader web site:

Arnold for President?

Senate resolution could pave the way for Austrian-born actor to run for the White House
—By Craig Cox-, Utne.com
October 2003 Issue

An obscure resolution currently making its way through the U.S. Senate could open the doors for a presidential run by California's Governer-Elect Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch in July introduced a bill that would allow anyone who has lived in the United States for 20 years to be eligible to hold the office of the president. The Constitution currently prohibits anyone who is not a "native-born citizen" from holding that office.

The bill, which would amend the Constitution, must be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures before becoming law. It was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which Hatch is chairman.

Schwarzenegger, whose victory in Tuesday's California recall election makes him an attractive presidential possibility, has lived in the U.S. since 1968.