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Yes, that's what opinions are. But my opinion isn't based in illogical thoughts and misinformation.



So what is it based on? "Because X says so" when basing it on such a dynamic document as the Constitution is about as illogical as it gets.

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There are two reasons why only natural-born citizens should be president: 1) The Constitution says so; 2) There is no reason to amend the Constitution to give foreign-born individuals the right to run for president.



#1 is negated by your own admission that the Constituion has things that need to be changed within it. It can be changed tomorrow. So "Because the Constitution says so" means nothing as an argument, it is only an opinion and can be changed just as easily. Our Declaration of Independence, a non-changing document, states that "All men are created equal" -- but I guess that only applies to those born within the United States.

#2 is of course also an opinion. Many people on the opposing side of every amendment to the Constituion we've had would argue that there was "no reason" to have them.

If that's the best you can come up with you lost the argument a long time ago. You've refuted absolutely nothing posed to you..

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Again, your argument assumes that everyone on the planet has the right to run for president, which is bogus.



At least 2 times in this thread, I've countered this "point" of yours.

There are three requisites to being President:

1> Being a natural-born citizen
2> Being of at least 35 years of age
3> Having lived in the US at least 14 years

Numbers 2 and 3 are not discriminatory without basis, as there is a logical reasoning behind requiring a person to be at least 35 years of age and having lived in the US for 14 years.

My only problem is with the phrase "natural-born". Simply make it "US Citizen", as it was for our first 7 Presidents, and it is no longer discriminatory, because all 3 requisites can be met by every citizen of the country.

Does that mean that "everyone in the world" can become President. Technically, I suppose it does -- if they move here, become a citizen, are at least 35, live here at least 14 years before running, and can then convince the electorate to vote for them. Does that scare you? Does that somehow not make them good enough? It was good enough for our first 7 Presidents.

The most pertitent thing is that "every US citizen can't run for President". We're a nation founded on the fact that we're all equal, yet there's an explicit exception written into our own Constitution. Maybe we should go back to another exception of equality in the Constituion and consider blacks 3/5s of a vote because "The Constitution says so".

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