Oct 15 2008

OMG Please!!

Category: PoliticsJoz @ 1:34 am

They’re actually working on it!  I have a new found love for my representative (Sherman).  Wikipedia:

In 2005, two amendments to the Constitution of the United States were proposed to permit persons having been citizens of the United States for many years but not being natural-born citizens to hold the Office of President. Neither bill got any further action beyond that year. H.J.RES.2, introduced on January 4, 2005, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI-14) and cosponsored by Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA-27), would require 20 years of citizenship for naturalized Americans to be eligible to hold the Office of President.[5] H.J.RES.42, introduced on April 14, 2005, sponsored by Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR-2) and cosponsored by Christopher Shays (R-CT-4), would require 35 years of citizenship for naturalized Americans to be eligible to hold the offices of President and Vice President.[6]

Once again, I was raised here in a very American environment since I was four, can barely even speak my original language, I bleed red, white, and blue, and yet I can’t be President, but somebody who’s mom ran across the border, gave birth to them, raised them in a different country for almost their entire life, and doesn’t even speak English, CAN be president.  That’s bullshit!

2 Responses to “OMG Please!!”

  1. Emily says:

    …and it was introduced on your birthday.

  2. JOsh says:

    I think it’s a HORRIBLE idea. Yeah maybe it’s unfair that those who were born here then lived in Mexico can run. I still think you should have to be born here, hell I think it would be better to have multiple generations here. There’s too much risk IMO otherwise, fair or unfair for some.

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