Arnold: An immigrant’s story
Posted on:: September 1st, 2004
Don’t you find it ludicrous that the Republicans put forth Arnold as a heartwarming example of how America welcomes immigrants? Ah, yes, Ahnuld who came from Austria as a poor, struggling Mr. Universe, and groped his way to the top.
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Troubling too is the republican sense of Ahnuld as the hope for 2008. The Constitution is clear about who can and cannot run for President. Naturalized citizens are precluded, yet a Republican friend this morning suggested that Ahnuld would carry the party standard in 08.
Article 2: “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
So over the next four years, while the public concern should be directed toward legitimate issues from the environment to the budget to personal choice, we will have the background noise of thoe who would amend the constitution so they can run their action hero. And all because he gives good talking-head.
I think that if the president wins re-election we can expect a push to repeal the 22nd Amendment, so that we can keep on electing him forever. At least, Richard Nixon’s folks were moving in that direction when they were overtaken by Watergate, and the Young Master’s courtiers are a lot less deterred by abstracts like the welfare of the Republic than that crew of pettifogging liberals. Arnold can hold on to his West Coast duchy as long as he makes himself useful, and doesn’t start to believe in that media rhetoric about “moderation.”
Yes. Poor Aaahnold. In the forest lifting weights, drinking beer, and having sex with his California bimbos (see his description in Pumping Iron). It must have been rough.