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[anvi]

How do you all feel about Gov. Jennifer Granholm as a possible presidential candidate in 2016?

[anvi]

Right, I had not known until now that she was born in Canada.  My bad.

Still, anyone who has listened to Granholm knows damed well she is light years sharper than Palin.

[anvi]

But, on this note, isn't it about time we rescinded the requirement that the President be an American-born citizen?  Does this restriction make sense anymore?

[anvi]

Granholm has done a lot regarding the budget deficets in Michigan and has also tried to promote the diversification of its economy.  The fact that she can't single-handedly hold off the effects of a national recession for her state is not necessarily a good standard, since, if it was, almost every governor would be disqualified from consideration.  

Where do you get the idea that allowing foreign-born citizens to run for office would result in a terrorist getting elected?  They are already allowed to run for state-wide office and even for the U.S. Senate.  The election process in the U.S. two years long and involves incredible public vetting of every aspect of a candidate's life.  Do you think the American people don't have the ability to prevent an anti-American terrorist from getting elected to the presidency?  

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Terrorists can't do much by themselves; they generally need help and cooperation from others to carry out their plans.  Even if a candidate didn't come out and say they were a terrorist, they need to have connections that enable them to carry out their plans.  The American people are not the only ones who vet presidential candidates; so do the FBI, CIA and NSA.  There are far, far more safegaurds in our time than there were in the nineteenth century to thoroughly check out a candidate's background and intentions.  To say that none of this could prevent a candidate with severely ill intentions toward the United States from getting into office is to distrust practically every federal institution in the United States responsible for investigation and security as well as to distrust that 130 million American voters can't pick a diabolically bad lemon out of a lineup.