President Gropenfuher

The U.S. Constitution limits the pool of potential presidents to those folks that are "natural born" citizens. That excludes millions of citizens who came to this country sometime after their birth and actually took the trouble to become citizens. That group includes, of course, action-figure-turned-governor-of-California Arnold Schwarzenegger, which has motivated some Republicans to propose removing that limitation from the Constitution. Over on Findlaw, John Dean does a pretty good job of laying out why the limitation should be consigned to the dustbin of history. I can't really argue with him, but I wish this movement came about because of a principled desire to right an historical wrong, rather than for political expediency.