Schwarzenegger Argues for White House Run
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites), making his Sunday talk show debut as governor, said that he and other foreign-born citizens should be eligible to run for the White House and that President Bush (news - web sites) can carry California in November if he does more to help the state.
The Austrian-born former bodybuilder, in the capital for his first meeting with fellow governors, said he has not thought about running for president in the future. The Constitution says only natural-born citizens of the United States are eligible for the country's highest office.
The Republican governor said anyone who has been a U.S. citizen for at least 20 years — as he has — should "absolutely" be able to seek the presidency. A constitutional amendment proposed by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, would make that possible.
"There are so many people in this country that are now from overseas, that are immigrants, that are doing such a terrific job with their work, bringing businesses here, that there's no reason why not," said Schwarzenegger, who became a U.S. citizen in 1983.
"Look at the kind of contribution that people like Henry Kissinger have made, Madeleine Albright (news - web sites)," he said, referring to two former secretaries of state who were born in Europe.
Schwarzenegger said on NBC's "Meet the Press' that he has been too busy with California's problems to contemplate a future run for the White House. "I have no idea, I haven't thought about that at all," he said.
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Discretion is obviously not Arnold's forte LOL
Anyway, the whole point of only allowing domestically-born citizens orignally was to keep British subjects from subverting the new nation by becoming naturalized Americans and then taking the highest office. Those policies are still good because even though Britain isn't a threat, many other nations still are. Besides, Arnold' s examples of Henry Kissinger and Madeline Albright are laughable. That is exactly what you don't want in office.
Governator Argues for White House Run 
