madskillz said:
MrBubbles said:
konnichiwa said:
madskillz said:
halogamer1989 said:
Sam Yikin said:
HappySqurriel said:
The reason why the President is supposed to be a natural born citizen is to prevent him/her from having an allegiance to another country ...
It is a little outdated being that someone could live in China from the time they were 2 days old until they were 35 and they could become the President of the United States of America, while a child who was born in Canada while his/her parents were on vacation (and lived their entire life in the United States) couldn't be president. The spirit of the rule is still valid, but there may be no way to actually make the rule workable.
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As if someone who IS a natural born citizen would never have allegiance to another country?
That rule gets more ridiculous each time I look at it.
Edit: i speel gud
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Watch Manchurian Candidate man...
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Let me think about this one. Movie is about a U.S. soldier captured - in Asia - and brainwashed and tortured. Comes back to a hero's welcome and gets fast-tracked in politics. Ascends to the top of his party and is nearly president. The Commies were hoping he'd be President so he could hand them the U.S. on a platter.
Reality - McCain is captured by the North Vietnamese - in Asia. No one knows if he's been brainwashed and tortured. Comes back to a hero's welcome and gets fast-tracked in politics. Ascends to the top of his party and is nearly president.
Did I miss anything?
Hmmmm ...
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I wonder if Bush was brainwashed aswell by some commies.
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i think thats much more believable than the stuff about McCain
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Ummm, Bush was never captured, never a prisoner of war, just a prisoner of Coke. Unless you were there with McCain, you don't know if brainwashing went on or not. Even McCain doesn't know.
Just watch the movie and see for yourself. The Sinatra version is the best one - but the newer one with Denzel is prolly the only one you can find for cheap.
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Either that or if you have an actual working idea of how brainwashing works.
The Manchiran candidate and stuff like that is complete fairytale BS.
Brainwashing works differently.
Personally if you were born in this country i'm not sure i understand how losing your citizenship then regaining it get srid of the "Natural born" part.
