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What do you think about the prerequisites of being President?

Do you think the prerequisites of becoming a president should be changed? Discuss here!


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At 03:30 am Schmuckula Said :
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Why would you exclude oil tycoons. They technically aren't criminals. They might have a stereotype, perhaps earned, of being greedy, but that is not a reason for exclusion. A criminal is a criminal, but guilt by generalization is not fair. And the drug issue prerequisite seems rather unforgiving. Your standards are rather bigotted, I think more so than my bias for native born persons.
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At 02:55 am amptone Said :
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I believe he/she should be able to make moral decisions for starters. Second he/she should NOT be an oil tycoon. Third, he and or she should have no drug issues, family issues such as Clinton and Bush. The Bush family is totally corrupt, I can't say that about the Clinton's although he is an adulterer.
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At 11:16 am Schmuckula Said :
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"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."

I prefer natural born and the numbers are relatively arbitrary. I might lower the minimum age a bit, even the time of continous residency, but that's about it. 30 and 10 respectively. I'd keep things about as they are.

I know it will seem nationalistic, but the office of the President has significantly more importance that even the office of the Governor of the largest populous state, and the person in that position should have the most ingrained loyalty to America. Natural born people are assumed to have that inherently. Those born from without cannot be assumed to be as strongly loyal.
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