[bentbryan]

Albright thinks so

maybe with guidelines, i.e. you must REALLY live here for X amount of years or something.... don't think it's a bad idea, for unless you're Native American, you're a foreigner anyway.

[benVFR]

I don't know...

The definition works pretty well it just says "native born".

I'd be amazed if they manage to put an ammedment together just so they can run Ahhhnold in 2008.

That'd be quite freaky if they could pull it off.

[bentbryan]

Agreed.

[hessogood]

I'd say certainly. It's not like anyone could fool the country into electing them when they're really not a good choice.....oh wait.....

[TheIglu]

"Vote for Ahhhnold. Jesus will thank you in the afterlife!"

Hey, it worked for one person so far....

[hessogood]

Originally posted by TheIglu
"Vote for Ahhhnold. Jesus will thank you in the afterlife!"

Hey, it worked for one person so far....

They were actually talking to him about this on CNN the other day. He said it was not his place to be involved in the discussion because his opinion could be biased. He felt it wasn't his place to discuss. I like that guy alot as a politician. He's grade A material.

[bentbryan]

Isn't he pushing for it?

[RandyO]

I think Arnold might make a good president... BUT I am not in favor of amending the constitution to allow it. I think our forefathers had good insight. I would be in favor of amending the constitution to make the presidency a 6 year term and not allowing consecutive terms

[SEVENSGT]

no, end of story...


even my wife, an immagrant(sp?) thinks that is a bad idea

[Degsy]

...and I'm an immigrant.


The American President should be just that, a true born American.

derek

[hessogood]

Why?


Arnold said he isn't pushing for it at all, and there's no way he's even thinking about ever running. He doesn't even know if he's going to run for re-election as govoner

[Stoneman]

Originally posted by Mr. E. Squid
...unless you're Native American, you're a foreigner anyway.

That statement cracks me up! Not just NOW Joe, but people seem to be using that a lot lately. My parents and I were both born in the United States. That makes us 'native born', which I believe makes me a native American...

Originally posted by Stoneman
That statement cracks me up! Not just NOW Joe, but people seem to be using that a lot lately. My parents and I were both born in the United States. That makes us 'native born', which I believe makes me a native American...

Feel free to believe whatever YOU want...



Native American
n.
A member of any of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. The ancestors of the Native Americans are generally considered by scientists to have entered the Americas from Asia by way of the Bering Strait sometime during the late glacial epoch.

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Native American adj.
Usage Note: Many Americans have come to prefer Native American over Indian both as a term of respect and as a corrective to the famous misnomer bestowed on the peoples of the Americas by a geographically befuddled Columbus. There are solid arguments for this preference. Native American eliminates any confusion between indigenous American peoples and the inhabitants of India, making it the clear choice in many official contexts. It is also historically accurate, despite the insistence by some that Indians are no more native to America than anyone else since their ancestors are assumed to have migrated here from Asia. But one sense of native is “being a member of the original inhabitants of a particular place,” and Native Americans' claim to being the original inhabitants of the Americas is unchallenged. ·Accuracy and precision aside, however, the choice between these two terms is often made as a matter of principle. For many, Native American is the only choice for expressing respect toward America's indigenous peoples; Indian is seen as wrong and offensive. For others, the former smacks of bureaucracy and the manipulation of language for political purposes while the latter is the natural English term, its inaptness made irrelevant by long use. Fortunately, this controversy appears to have subsided somewhat in recent years, and it is now common to find the two terms used interchangeably in the same piece of writing. Furthermore, the issue has never been particularly divisive between Indians and non-Indians. While generally welcoming the respectful tone of Native American, most Indian writers have continued to use the older name at least as often as the newer one. ·Native American and Indian are not exact equivalents when referring to the aboriginal peoples of Canada and Alaska. Native American, the broader term, is properly used of all such peoples, whereas Indian is customarily used of the northern Athabaskan and Algonquian peoples in contrast to the Eskimos, Inuits, and Aleuts. Alaska Native (or less commonly Native Alaskan) is also properly used of all indigenous peoples residing in Alaska. See Usage Note at American Indian. See Usage Note at First Nation. See Usage Note at Indian.


Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


native american

adj : of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages; "Native American religions"; "Indian arrowheads" [syn: Indian, Amerind, Amerindic, native American] n : any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived [syn: Amerindian, Native American]

[Stoneman]

Uh, yeah...

That settles it, then. I am indeed NOT a native of America, thus I MUST be a foreigner. That's odd...

Originally posted by Stoneman
Uh, yeah...

That settles it, then. I am indeed NOT a native of America, thus I MUST be a foreigner. That's odd...

Actually, you're neither, you're Jewish.

[Stoneman]

Originally posted by Mr. E. Squid
Actually, you're neither, you're Jewish.

True, therefor I run the world. As such, I say I am indeed a native of America...

Originally posted by Stoneman
True, therefor I run the world. As such, I say I am indeed a native of America...

Ok Jay, when and where is your worship service?


It all depends on the usage....

[highsider]

I'm a native American. My Daddy was Chief Runs For the Welfare Check.

[Cam_In_IL]

Originally posted by Mr. E. Squid
maybe with guidelines, i.e. you must REALLY live here for X amount of years or something....

Yeah, like 40 years or something.

Originally posted by Cam_In_RI
Yeah, like 40 years or something.

Hey, I agree.... You, obviously, would not want Al-Faroque Pradip Singh, coming over and winning after only 3 years in the US.

[Suf Daddy]

With the actual documents to prove you've been paying taxes and a naturalized citizen or whatever the correct term is...........

Make it 40 years. - Suf Daddy

Originally posted by Mr. E. Squid
maybe with guidelines, i.e. you must REALLY live here for X amount of years or something.... don't think it's a bad idea, for unless you're Native American, you're a foreigner anyway.

[Suf Daddy]

the kids whose college and schooling I and countless others have paid for?

Well son, as judge smells once said:
"how'd you like to mow my lawn huh?"

-Suf Daddy

Originally posted by highsider
I'm a native American. My Daddy was Chief Runs For the Welfare Check.

[highsider]

Originally posted by Suf Daddy
the kids whose college and schooling I and countless others have paid for?

Well son, as judge smells once said:
"how'd you like to mow my lawn huh?"

-Suf Daddy

Don't I wish.

I actually did check Native American as my nationality on college applications. Didn't help any though, I still would up at a freakin community college.

[RandyO]

even people who are born here have to be 35 years old before you can run for president..... still it should not be allowed to let a foreigner become president even if they live here 100 years