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| Originally Posted by Mr T. If the dozy twats can vote in Arnie as governor, nothing would surprise me about husband/wife combo's.
Oh, and where the US Constitution states, currently, that the US president must be a 'born in the USA' citizen, certain (due to Arnie 'looking like a winner') circles in Washington are now looking into changing the Constitution and allowing the president to be a naturlaised citizen. |
Told ya!
Fans campaign to clear a path for President Schwarzenegger
By Marcus Warren in New York
(Filed: 18/11/2004)
A campaign to change the American constitution to allow Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for the White House has begun as the film star ended his first year as governor of California yesterday.
Fans of the Austrian-born actor have swamped the airwaves of his adopted state with television advertisements calling for an end to the ban on citizens of the United States born abroad becoming president.
The move has in theory been launched on behalf of all naturalised Americans but the name of the group behind it, "Amend for Arnold", leaves little doubt as to its main thrust.
"You cannot choose the land of your birth," its principal backer, Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones, says in the advertisements. "You can choose the land you love."
The advertisement says: "Twelve million people have chosen America", a reference to the country's naturalised citizens. "Help us to amend the constitution. Help us to amend for Arnold."
Mr Schwarzenegger, 57, has not explicitly supported the initiative but has coyly hinted that he might consider standing for the presidency if so allowed by the constitution.
Amending America's basic law is a major, but not impossible, undertaking.
The Senate and the House of Representatives must both approve the change by a two thirds majority and 38 of the nation's 50 states must ratify the move too. While there is no direct link between the action film star and the "Amend for Arnold" group, Mrs Morgenthaler-Jones has been an enthusiastic donor and volunteer working for his new career.
The new campaign calls on supporters to "give 10 to amend", $10, 10 days, 10 hours or just 10 minutes to lobby the cause nationwide.
The former bodybuilder confirmed his status as one of America's top political stars with a barnstorming speech to the Republican convention this summer demanding "four more years" for President George W Bush.
The son of an Austrian policeman, Mr Schwarzenegger moved to the West Coast in 1968 and took American citizenship in 1983.
His accent is still so thick that his strangled efforts at pronouncing the name of the state he now governs raise a laugh to this day.
Apart from changing Article Two of the constitution ruling that only "natural born citizens" can be president, the campaign to elect Mr Schwarzenegger to the highest office in the land faces one more obstacle, late night comedians joked this week.
The "Terminator" has successfully reinvented himself as the "Governator," they pointed out. But what would his role be in the White House, the "Presinator", "Presidentor" or the "Presidentator"? they asked.