Republicans hate immigrants, clearly. They come here and steal all our jobs (like actor and Governor).
And if there is one thing they really hate, it’s when foreigners aren’t born in ‘Murica. That Kenyan-born guy, for instance. Should never have been President. There’s a reason the founders required all Presidents to have been born on American soil.
What’s that? Ted Cruz, born in Canada, wants to be President? And now Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Austria?
Well, that’s an elephant of a different color! Ahnold would be a great President, they say. (Let’s leave out the part where, under Arnold, California went into terrible debt and how, in the few years since the Democrats took over, it has turned itself around and now has a budget surplus.) 
Ahnold now says he wants to run in 2016, where he will his crush his enemies, see them driven before him, and hear the lamentation of the Democrats. He says he will “file legal paperwork to change the rules” to allow him to run.
I am not making this up. A man who wants to be President knows so little about the United States Constitution that he thinks he can “file legal paperwork” and get to run.
The only way he could do this is by changing the Constitution, which requires 2/3rds of both the House and the Senate to approve of the wording of the amendment, and then 2/3rds of the states to pass it. And he only has a few years in which to do it. He’ll have a big problem convincing a Senate controlled by Democrats to give him what he wants.
Mind you, I think the Constitution should be changed in many ways, and this is one of them. There is no reason someone born in another country shouldn’t be able to run for President. Maybe Arnold’s quest may allow this to finally happen — but after the election, when it won’t benefit him personally.
I say first remove the electoral colleges. To me, that’s more damning against the process of electing a president than where he comes from.
I know nothing about other countries but I wonder if an American can become the German Chancellor.
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There are quite a few things I’d change in the Constitution, and yes, the electoral college would be first.
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