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.
Believe it or not that is what the Constitution requires of the
person who shall be the president of our country. You just have to be born a
citizen and be 35 years old.
Although the president is commander in
chief of the military, military service is not a requirement. At the time of
the drafting of the Constitution, most of the new states restricted
enfranchisement to property owners, yet that requirement is not imposed on the
president. The holder of the highest office in the land could be indigent for
all practical purposes and still reside in the White House.
We have amended
the Constitution for various reasons, but we have not added any further
requirements on the presidency in over 200 years of our history. Considering
the track records of some of the poorer performing presidents, this is perhaps
surprising.
So maybe it’s
time to enforce some requirements on the person who is the commander in chief
and leader of the free world. I suggest the following to be the 28th
Amendment:
The
President must be sane.
OK, pretty simply stated. As with any other law, there will be
some working out of the details in subsequent laws and court rulings, but the
general gist of the amendment is that you cannot be crazy or spout off crazy
ideas. This would obviously exclude folks who get winnowed out in the elective
process already, such as white supremacists and guys who still live in their
parents’ basements at the age of 46.
This amendment,
if it were already adopted, would disqualify all the GOP candidates running forthe 2016 election. I’ve lost track of the number of them, but apparently all of
them are crazy enough or seem to be crazy enough to think that global warming
is a myth or something that we shouldn’t do anything about.
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| Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin and crazy photo from Wikipedia |
You don’t think that the GOP candidates are crazy? OK, global
warming is our greatest threat. The Grand Old Party candidates say it either
doesn’t exist or we shouldn’t do anything about it. That’s crazy!
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| Carly Fiorina, ousted CEO of Hewlett-Packard and crazy photo from LifeNews.com |
OK, they aren’t totally jump out of the boat crazy, a present
threat to themselves or others. But if any one of these folks attains the
highest office in the land, that person will pose a threat to millions of folks
all over the world.
Maybe we could
fast track this amendment before the election. That doesn’t sound crazy, does
it?
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| Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky and crazy. He's also the one who says that mountaintop removal is "just missing a hill here or there," which is really crazy |
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