AP: Ads to Back Schwarzenegger for President

[ryban]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Californians will soon see advertisements urging them to help give Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other foreign-born citizens the chance to run for president.

The cable television ads, set to being running Monday, are from a Silicon Valley-based group that wants to amend the U.S. Constitution, which limits the presidency to people born in the United States. Schwarzenegger was born in Austria but became a U.S. citizen in 1983.

"You cannot choose the land of your birth. You can choose the land you love," Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones says in the ads.

She is a San Francisco Bay area mutual fund manager and major Schwarzenegger campaign donor who is helping pay for the ads and created a companion Web site.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041114/D86BAJ8O0.html

[billyoc]

1. I think this is a red herring, to mask an attempt to get rid

of term limits. People will balk at letting naturalized citizens run for president, but compromise on term limits. :(

[SoCalDem]

2. please continue here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=987803&mesg_id=987803