This will be a short but sweet diary.
The memory hole is sweet, for the far right teabagger fundie wingnut set.
CBS News
Normally, even a first-term California governor with Schwarzenegger's poll numbers and star power would be talked about as a potential future presidential candidate. But being foreign-born, he can't run. There are attempts to change that.
He is ineligible to run for president. Would he like to be able to? Would he like to see an amendment to the Constitution?
"Yes. Absolutely," says Schwarzenegger. "I think, you know, because why not? Like with my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top. But it's not something that I am preoccupied with. I am not thinking one single minute about that. Because there's so many things I have to do in California, and my promise was to straighten out the mess in California."
Rohrabacher said in an interview that Schwarzenegger was doing a great job as governor, but his real aim was to open up the presidential process. "We've got some talented people who might be able to help our country and provide some much-needed leadership, and there's no reason if they've been a citizen for over 20 years to exclude them," he said.
This was satire, not prognostication. Either way, though, it appears, at the moment, to be right on schedule. The big technicality, of course, is a clause in Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution—the one that states, "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." On July 10th, Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, quietly introduced what he hopes will become the twenty-eighth amendment:
A person who is a citizen of the United States, who has been for 20 years a citizen of the United States, and who is otherwise eligible to the Office of President, is not ineligible to that Office by reason of not being a native born citizen of the United States.
As it happens, Arnold Schwarzenegger (who, according to the Deseret News, Hatch’s home-town paper, is both a "pal" and a "fund-raising helper" of the Senator’s) became a citizen of the United States precisely twenty years ago.
My point?
Listen birthers, 2004 is not ancient history. And back then, such famous far right people as Dana Rohrbacher and Orrin Hatch wanted to change the Constitution to let a foreign born person be president.
Setting aside the massive documented evidence of Obama's American birth, the hypocrisy of your side is sickening. Why was it so desirable that Arnold Schwarzeneggar be President back then that people who share your general ideology were willing to go to the mat for it, even so far as to change the constitution to allow for it and now you cannot shut up about someone who has been PROVED to have been American born over and over again?
This is why I say, I don't want to hear from you ever again. I don't care about your repeated challenges to documented fact. I don't even care about any "new facts" you might fabricate.
I don't care about any of it. I only know that this is a racist ploy and sour grapes about a President whose political party and ethnicity you do not like.
So, let me say this very same thing you were so fond of saying back in the day:
The Democrats and Barack Obama won the election. YOU LOST. GET OVER IT.
(Oh, and considering the mess your beloved Governator has made of California, do you still want to make him President, even so far as to change the Constitution to make it possible)?