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Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« on: October 19, 2013, 02:34:32 am »
http://pagesix.com/2013/10/18/schwarzenegger-mounting-legal-challenge-to-run-for-president/?_ga=1.92001241.23114098.1367942166
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/schwarzenegger-wants-do-country-what-#disqus_thread

Well just Arnold (for now at least.) But in a life-imitating-art suprise Arnold Schwarzenegger is lobbying for a law that would allow him to run for president.

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But Arnold, who became a US citizen in 1983, still could mount a legal challenge. In 2010, he appeared on the ‘Tonight Show,’ and was asked by Jay Leno if he would make a White House run if the law were changed.

Schwarzenegger replied, “Without any doubt.” With America becoming more diverse, it is not clear what would happen if Arnie or any other foreign-born naturalized citizen decided to run.

Columbia University Law School professor Michael Dorf, an expert in constitutional law, said about the Governator’s case in 2007, “The law is very clear, but it’s not 100 percent clear that the courts would enforce that law rather than leave it to the political process.”

Though rather than change the law I'm sure he could just forge his long form birth certificate. I mean it's not like the birthers would trouble him.
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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2013, 02:41:50 am »
I'd certainly be interested in hearing their campaign promises.

-30% increase in explosions over the next five years, along with a 70% increase in people slowly walking away from said explosions without looking back at them.
-By 2021, every American citizen will have the opportunity to get in the chopper.
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In any case, it couldn't possibly be worse than the usual Republican candidates.

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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2013, 02:50:27 am »
Schwarzenegger is pretty cool as far as Republicans go... I think?

I can't keep track of who enacted what policy that well.
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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2013, 11:05:45 am »
I'd certainly be interested in hearing their campaign promises.

-30% increase in explosions over the next five years, along with a 70% increase in people slowly walking away from said explosions without looking back at them.
-By 2021, every American citizen will have the opportunity to get in the chopper.
-Zero tolerance on not putting that cookie down.

In any case, it couldn't possibly be worse than the usual Republican candidates.

I refuse to vote for any, ANY candidate that gives me the opportunity to get in the chopper. I 'will' however, throw ALL my money at a candidate who gives me the opportunity to get in da chawppah.
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« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2013, 11:15:15 am »
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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2013, 11:57:47 am »
Schwarzenegger is pretty cool as far as Republicans go... I think?

I can't keep track of who enacted what policy that well.

He supported gay marriage, funding for stem cell research, and environmentalism.

"I shall stop the melting of the ice caps by constructing a freeze ray and firing it at the poles."

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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2013, 01:30:56 pm »
I'd certainly be interested in hearing their campaign promises.

-30% increase in explosions over the next five years, along with a 70% increase in people slowly walking away from said explosions without looking back at them.
-By 2021, every American citizen will have the opportunity to get in the chopper.
-Zero tolerance on not putting that cookie down.

In any case, it couldn't possibly be worse than the usual Republican candidates.

The presidential debates would be interesting, at least.

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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2013, 02:09:52 pm »
Yeah but then he's gonna start putting glass domes on random cities because some yahoo repolutes their lake after Green Day dies in it.  And it's just a mess for international relations anyways.

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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2013, 02:59:46 pm »
It's an antiquated rule anyway. Maybe it made more sense to people back when it was downright unusual to not be terrified of foreigners, but the world has become so multicultural and small compared to the 18th century that it just needlessly restricts the pool of potential candidates. There's literally no reason to restrict the presidency other than the sensible people not getting around to fixing it and the crazies still being terrified of anyone who's not a True American.
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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2013, 05:12:42 pm »
Uh, quick question then.

Can someone who, say, becomes a citizen of Britain but wasn't born there... can they run for Prime Minister?
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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2013, 10:29:15 pm »
Uh, quick question then.

Can someone who, say, becomes a citizen of Britain but wasn't born there... can they run for Prime Minister?

Nobody runs for Prime Minister in a Westminster democracy. Candidates are elected as MPs, and the monarch (or viceroy) chooses one of them to form a government, which must then retain the confidence of (the lower House of) Parliament. (The system is thus called responsible government: the wielders of the executive power, the government, are responsible to Parliament, which wields the legislative power.) Typically, the Prime Minister is the leader of the plurality (generally majority) party in (the lower House of) Parliament, but to sit in said House the Prime Minister must be elected as an MP (if necessary, in a by-election).

In the UK, the rules are here: http://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/electing-mps/candidates/

Canada: http://www.parl.gc.ca/marleaumontpetit/DocumentViewer.aspx?Sec=Ch04&Seq=3&Language=E

Australia (House of Representatives): http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/House_of_Representatives/Powers_practice_and_procedure/00_-_Infosheets/Infosheet_8_-_Elections_for_the_House_of_Representatives

New Zealand: (general election) http://www.elections.org.nz/becoming-candidate-general-election/part-1-nomination-candidates (by-election) http://www.elections.org.nz/becoming-candidate-election/part-1-nomination-candidates
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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2013, 03:44:04 am »
Uh, quick question then.

Can someone who, say, becomes a citizen of Britain but wasn't born there... can they run for Prime Minister?

Long story short: as far as I can tell, yes. I don't think birth in the UK, Ireland, or Commonwealth is required to enter the position. Merely citizenship and being of age.
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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2013, 04:34:55 am »
Australia's current PM was not born in Australia. Nor was our previous one*.

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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2013, 04:59:36 pm »
Of course, at the end of Schwarznegger's first term he'll pledge to run for a non-consecutive second term, kinda like Grover Cleveland.

His Presidency would, however, be somewhat marred over his vacillating, confused approach regarding a NASA mission to Mars.
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Re: Schwartzenegger/Stallone 2016!
« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2013, 01:05:24 am »
I'd certainly be interested in hearing their campaign promises.

-30% increase in explosions over the next five years, along with a 70% increase in people slowly walking away from said explosions without looking back at them.
-By 2021, every American citizen will have the opportunity to get in the chopper.
-Zero tolerance on not putting that cookie down.

In any case, it couldn't possibly be worse than the usual Republican candidates.

The presidential debates would be interesting, at least.

Especially if they went like this one. =D
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