Schwarzenegger for president?

AH I see your point. To my knowledge the baby does not have to be born on US soil. The instant the baby is born in a foreign country, he or she is a US citizen and his or her parents can go to the embassy and get a passport. Based on that, I would say there is not requirement to be born on the soil. For example, perhaps the child was born in England when his mother and father are there working at the state dept. Maybe his dad is a diplomat. That child would not be ineligable to be president in my understanding. I wonder if there was ever a president or an issue in the past that could clear it up. I bet Negative could find it. :)

edit// actually there are many resources. Heres is the first I found...

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-an...?msg_id=00A5Do

An interesting read and for once fairly clear. So apperantly the only real condition is to be a natural born citizen. Great we can start planning the political career of any children we have. :)

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AH I see your point. To my knowledge the baby does not have to be born on US soil. The instant the baby is born in a foreign country, he or she is a US citizen and his or her parents can go to the embassy and get a passport. Based on that, I would say there is not requirement to be born on the soil. For example, perhaps the child was born in England when his mother and father are there working at the state dept. Maybe his dad is a diplomat. That child would not be ineligable to be president in my understanding. I wonder if there was ever a president or an issue in the past that could clear it up. I bet Negative could find it.

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State departments and such are considered part of the country that occupies it on loan from the country that it is in. It does qualify as US soil.

-Cheers-

Very true state departments are American soil, in fact you may still pay American income tax depending on the situation. But babies aren't born in state department buildings, they are born in local hospitals. :) The same rules apply to persons on vacations. And in a lot of places that baby has the option of citizenship of either country.

Arnold would make a good president bcuz he is against gay marriages, ecspically rosie o'donnel and her lesbian lover! send all the gays to canada so the future textbooks say "2005: gays sent to canada", and even "in 2089: canada's population dies out because of the gayness. thats y arnold would be a good president even though hes not american.