and his chicks and illegitimate kids. What kind of ego do you have to be to want that kind of scrutiny during a campaign in a red neck party let alone think that a country wants or needs you?

Fuck THAT!! We are not going to amend the Constitution for him certainly, or even someone worthy of being president.

see 2000-2008 and some of the more unfortunate foreign actions of Obama.

just like raygun before him.

pregnant while he was at it.

Awesome, huh??

We were already in the dumpster, and he stomped us down further into the pile of garbage, brought some of his own and threw that in for good measure.

He is an incredible optimist. And incredible is the important word there. He does not have a realistic bone in his body.

He has been very lucky. He two-timed his wife who happens to be a very fine member of the Kennedy clan. Dream on, Arnie. Nobody wants you.

The Republicans don't really claim him as their own, and the Democrats can't stand him. I doubt that he could carry California. He is a huge joke.

compared to the money that was presumably on the table if anyone held the Electricity Crisis manufacturers liable for
grandma's screwing.

It was not an election.
And it was not his idea.
He is deplorable, but the pass given that abominable scandal speaks volumes for where we are as a country.
The first decade of the twenty first century in America will be famous for the many stolen elections we saw.
Fortunately, all the right counter measures have been taken, without a word being said...

We Californians got taken. It's a terrible shame. He nearly ruined our state. It took a Democratic governor and a majority Democratic legislature to put California back on its feet again.

Thank you, Jerry Brown. It wasn't easy.

You can criticize his policies, his opinions, but when you attack his looks you discredit your argument.

such that it might affect his ability to carry out his duties is a legitimate topic for discussion.

Reagan's dementia started toward the end of his first term, and was ignored by the press completely in his second term, even as it became more obvious that he was impaired.

(said tongue in cheek)

This is probably more accurate than people think.

got wound up. He was taking questions from reporters at some event and he had a "dear in the headlights" look when they started asking questions. Nancy was beside him and literally feed him answers sotto voce, which he repeated verbatim.

Do I doubt he was involved? No. But that is not my point. I would say that an honest neuro evaluation of him would have found him unfit for office by 1987 at the latest.

Those around him took advantage of that but he went along with it and I have no doubt he ordered the funding of the Contras even though he knew full well it was in direct violation of the Boland Amendment. There was an arrogant attitude from the Right that we also saw in the run up to Iraq of, "We're gonna save you from yourselves."

I really hate these people.

And he really isn't goodlooking at all.

He is a total loser. He nearly lost California to our creditors.

Almost every year, we went through a budget crisis just like the one we went through the last couple of weeks. He has a lot of money, but he can't organize a budget for a state much less the nation.

He is an utter loser. Back to Hollywood with him. Besides, the woman he two-timed was a member of the Kennedy family. Not a smart thing to do in America. We love the Kennedys.

Maria Shriver was outstanding on issues of women and children. It was her presence that helped get him elected. So much for gratitude on his part. And I am not usually concerned about sex scandals. But in his case, when he used his wife's family credentials as bona fides in the political marketplace, it was a pretty crummy thing to do. Shame on him. He used Maria Shriver. That is how I feel.

Unless you are a former supermodel or Sandra Bullock no one can stand up to that kind of physical scrutiny. He did have a procedure on his heart but the details escape me. This isn't about his health anyway. He is most decidedly "unfit" psychologically to be president.

There are SO many reasons why he is not qualified for public office and deriding his for no longer being an Adonis at 60+ debases the discourse.

He's not bright, he's not loyal, he's entirely self-absorbed, he doesn't have deep concerns, beliefs, empathy, depth, he's got nada.

His image has been ALL that mattered to him forever, his identification with his "heroic" characters he got after being hired for his image for movies, even though he could never act well enough to be considered a real actor.

After "success" for working as an image, he seemed to feel he is important, but he has absolutely nothing positive working for him.

let's not join him.

...and he was a worse governor.

Starting with his collusion with the crooks running the big power companies during the rigged California "energy crisis" of 2000-2001.

If an amendment is ever passed to change that rule, and an amendment is what it would take, it certainly wouldn't be changed to suit his sorry ass. He is delusional if he thinks he's that popular. I don't think he could even get re-elected in California.

Governor, he's too far to the left of the Tea Party nut cases, and there's the little matter of the love child with the housekeeper. Not buying it.

and even if the amendment could be done, which is unlikely in the extreme, getting it formulated, passed by Congress and ratified by the required number of states would take so long that he will have died of old age before th process was completed.

Arnie is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he is not that stupid. Somebody has fallen for a prank headline. Does the OP know that news items in the Onion are not real?

38 state legislatures to go along with it.

Ah-nuld is too dumb to be President if he doesn't know that.

He is an idiot. The only thing he ever did that was productive was he produced a child with his housekeeper. Arnold is a pig.

now that she has kicked him to the curb. Yeah, she had a facelift but besides that.

Oh - wait ................ whaddya wanna bet this is a stunt to promote some stupid movie plot where he confronts the likes of Putin and Kim jung un and kicks them to their senses??? A make-believe kick-ass president. What better way to kick off such a production!

Since 2004 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Austria

Baseball players get dragged before congress for using them but this guy gets to hold high level political positions and never even get asked about it.

It sets a terrible example for males to have a man in such a high position of authority getting a pass on abusing such a destructive drug for personal gain.

why can`t arnold.......?

poor arnold his star power is waning....

This requires a constitutional amendment that requires 2/3 majorities in both houses of Congress and the President's signature. From there it goes to the states and requires passage by 2/3 of the states.

In best case scenario this takes 3-5 years. This would not be done in time for him to run in 2016.

*IF* for whatever reason they do pass the amendment, Schwarzenegger won't be grandfathered and would be ineligible anyways....

President would even sign that?

The basic method is two-thirds of each chamber of Congress to propose the amendment, plus ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. There's also a provision by which two-thirds of the states can call for a convention to propose amendments, thus bypassing Congress, but no such convention has ever been held.

Than the tea turds overturning the ACA.

Or Ted Cruz being President.

A remake of Back to the Future when the professor couldn't believe Raygun was president.

was resurrected in arnie the sexual sociopath. I actually like the idea, the comedy of señor Cruz R-Canada/Cuba, The Wasila Hillbilly, and duh i forgot Perry should make for some magical comedy.

OK

If he feels his destiny is to engage in a battle to amend the Constitution before he dies so he can run for president, that only shows that he has no better ideas on what to do.

Maybe he should consider running for senator, and then using the platform of a distinguished senatorial career to advocate for the amendment. Maybe he could do better as a senator than as a governor--it's not like he would be expected actually do anything.

Nowhere in that article does it say, or even imply, that Arnie is actually trying to "get the law changed" to allow him to run for president. It says that he would like to be president, but not that he is trying to actually accomplish that. The quotes from Bloomberg are clearly remarks made in jest.

Why the Independent even wrote this piece of fluff is not really clear, although the Independent is rather famous for writing puff pieces, society trivia and nonsense, but we certainly don't do the political arena any favor by taking those idiots seriously and propagating their babble.

purity back about four generations and volunteer. He was Austrian. Germany overran his country and he VOLUNTEERED to help them do more. In the end, he was also gestapo too:

ASK.FM:

"Where the Gestapo and SS the same?"

"No, they were separate although they worked together later on. The Gestapo were the police. The SS were an elite military group founded by Hitler more or less as bodyguards. SS stands for Schutzstaffel. Eventually, the SS took over the Gestapo so they reported directly to the SS."

Until recently we didn't have Taco Bell. I usually buy the fresh ingredients and make tacos at home. That stuff at Taco Bell gives me the runs.

So many thought it was real. Wow.

.... Congress isn't busy. They've got plenty of time to monkey with the fundamentals of the constitution so a mediocre-beyond-belief arrogant prick such as yourself can be president.

Geez what a fuck.

Has he forgotten all his sexual escapades? ...

As a bodybuilder he had wide and varied group of interesting partners and not all of them were female ... not to mention his most recent conquests while married and then, of course, there's all of his children ....

Time to seek a good neurologist .... don't embarrass your kids, please ...

"only American-born people can land the role" meaning as long as one parent is an American even if living on foreign soil. Kinda like John McCain born to Americans in Panama. This would apply to Senator Cruz as well even though he was born in Canada, he is the son of an American.

That's good to know. ha ha ha lolol

You write, "To be a 'natural born' citizen you have to be born on US soil."

The Constitution doesn't say that. The requirement is that you must be a "natural born citizen" and someone like Cruz was entitled to U.S. citizenship at birth.

Requires 2/3 of both houses and ratification by 38 of the 50 states.

That should tell you how seriously we should take this "news".

Not even fit for the bottom of bird cages.

One possibility suggested in this thread is that Schwarzenegger is just trying to get publicity. That's possible, but another strong possibility is that Schwarzenegger hasn't said or done anything at all. Someone came upon an old comment of his about changing the Constitution, the someone told someone else, and when the game of Telephone was over it ended up as a blind item in the gossip column of a newspaper that's called a newspaper only out of courtesy.

Maybe because this is a UK paper they don't understand the courts don't really have any choice but to enforce the natural-born citizen clause. Both his parents are Austrian. He doesn't even have the luxury of Calgary Ted who has a US citizen as a mother.

This is a total non-starter. He's never going see the Constitution changed during his lifetime to allow him to run. He's already 66 and who knows what he did to his body when he was younger with steroids and stuff. Even if someone sponsored the amendment I don't think he'll live long enough to see it ratified. If he does he'll be far too old to run.

Steroids fuck up your brain kids.

The fact that he doesn't have a clue how long that would take and what is involved should disqualify him also.

FUGHEDABOUTIT!

He wouldn't carry Cali so it's a non starter.

He may have been a bad actor but we didn't pay to see a good one. That wasn't the point.

Now as a politician, that's different!

We pay for good ones and get Issas. I would be more concerned in getting rid of those dirtbags!

Ahnold won't be back! Hasta la vista baby!

n/t

I heartily approve of another massively egoed republican creating another embarrassing and futile sideshow that makes the mainstream GOP shake their heads and look at their shoes.

Good luck with that, Ahnold.

Nothing to see here, move along...

baggage he has a chance a to be president. That he is doing this now suggests to me he is doing it for crud.

Or switch parties and run as a union-busting Democrat?

Not (god forbid) to see my former governor (gag) to run for president... but to allow my daughter to run for president!

She is only 11, but first got involved with student government (she was elected school secretary) at 9, and she's a natural. But, she was born in a different country to citizens of that country, and she didn't become a US citizen until she arrived in the U.S. at 6 months (after we adopted her). She was kind of bummed to learn about that restriction...

I hadn't realized it until now, but some people have been working to give internationally adopted children rights that are equal to those of children born in this country--including the right to run for president-- through a new law, instead of a constitutional amendment:

http://www.equalityforadoptedchildren.org/legislation/face/section.html

<<S.1359 and H.R. 3110, the Foreign Adopted Children Equality Act (FACE Act).
This bill was introduced on June 25, 2009 by Senators Landrieu (D-LA) and Inhofe (R-OK) and on June 26, 2009 by Congresswoman Watson (D-CA) and Congressman Boozman (R-AR). Following each section of text, is a detailed explanation of the purpose of each provision and the resulting benefits to adopted children and their families should this legislation become law.>>

http://www.equalityforadoptedchildren.org/legislation/face/why_needed.html

<<Finally, the Act also amends Section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1401) which defines who is considered an American citizen from birth. This is the section of law that provides automatic U.S. citizenship from birth to biological children born to American citizens abroad. The amendment would add internationally adopted children of American citizens to this section, therefore, providing them with U.S. citizenship from birth. Thus, internationally adopted children of American citizens would have the privilege of two heritages – the heritage of their country of origin and the heritage of their new country and all the benefits that come with being a U.S. citizen from birth including the same opportunity to run for President of the United States as biological children born abroad to American parents.>>

that should not have been in the Constitution in the first place and should have been removed by amendment long ago.

But amending the Constitution is the way to do it, not by this method.

Beauty queen mentality

He's just trying to make room for Ted Cruz

the novelty of having an action hero president will lure low information voters.

Hopefully, the foreigner stuff will turn off enough Republicans.

without having to waste time trying to get us all to forget about his serial groping, his womanizing, and his out-of-wedlock yard ape.

This article has to be a joke.

Arnold's personal foibles never even registered here in Caleefornia.

And if his celebrity status could dazzle people in the home state of Hollywood, imagine how he'll go over in states where the most famous person is last year's winner of the hog slaughtering competition at the state fair.

I don't think this has a chance anyway.

He did not even go to high school in the US. His Austrian accent is so thick that there is no excuse for it. (He is in Hollywood. Speech experts surround him. Why the heavy accent? He is not easy to understand at times.)

"legal paperwork to change the rules"? What is he talking about? It's in the Constitution.

Article II, Section I

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.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii

we won't let you fuck up the US like you fucked up California. learned that lesson thanks to Bush.

Because you're so SPECIAL!!!!

Thanks for the thread, dipsydoodle.

even if Sarah Palin was his running mate.

they could be helping the poor, education and the environment. Instead, they're going to spend it on Ahnold's Constitutional amendment.

Ahnold/Edwards on the Procreationist ticket?
Maybe we should pirate his next movie, since the law needs a changing?

Well, yes, it takes two-thirds concurrence of both houses of Congress (and remember always that this Congress couldn't get two-thirds concurrence on a resolution that the Atlantic Ocean is made out of water) but then it also takes two-thirds concurrence of the states. And he wants all this done in two years? Don't we already have plenty of corrupt, incompetent Republicans who meet the Constitutional requirements?

can't BE President. Life's tough - deal with it. If I ran a cookie store, it's unlikely I'd change the recipe for one customer. And I feel pretty much the same way about changing the Constitution.

Especially after the way he treated his wife.

Oh, wait.... the Values Summit voters wouldn't have a problem with that, would they? Maybe Ahnuld and the Witch of Wassilla could run on a double ticket.

Recalibrating... recalibrating...

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- The mind boggles......

The Gropernator looks like a winner compared to the other clowns

As it doesn't exist. The Constitution bars non-native citizens from being president. Also, I should think him being an asshat would be a disqualifying factor as well.

I propose that we support amending the Constitution to eliminate the natural born citizen clause if we can also do away with the 22nd Amendment. That should have the Neocons howling in the aisles.

I guess all those years of mega steroid use really went to Arnold's brain!

We already got a narcissistic, pea-brained, non-NBC jackass teabagger running for prez named Cruz.

One is too many let alone two!

The dude will be nearing a hundred by the time more than even ten states ratify it. Amendments don't happen fast.

Remember the Equal Rights Amendment?

But you do have a point.

if the republicans hadn't screwed him over.

Because I'm laughing thinking about it........