Article II of the U.S. Constitution 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; 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.
Thus, my choice for Obama's running mate, Madeleine Albright, is about as big a public goof-up as choosing a one-term governor with a slash-and-burn management style, who only seems in favor of two things: More babies and more drilling.
See, it really does all come down to the psychosexual, doesn't it?
I've always thought that that little constitutional stipulation of "no foreigners allowed" was provincial, xenophobic, and hypocritical in the extreme, especially for a country that prides itself on being a nation of immigrants. But whoever said Americans don't have a strong sense of irony just wasn't paying close enough attention.
So Madeleine Albright--born Marie Jana Korbelová in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1937 to Czech parents, who escaped to Switzerland, Serbia, England, and finally to Colorado (a Westerner after all!)--would not be an acceptable running mate for Obama or anyone else, due to constitutional restrictions.
But look on the bright side! Now no one can try to push Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jean-Claude Van Damme into the spotlight for the highest national office! Nor Pamela Anderson, William Shatner, Gerard Depardieu, Amy Winehouse, the girls from T.a.T.u., the former members of ABBA, Osama bin Laden, Charlize Theron, Charo, or Kim Jong-il.
Although I wouldn't count out the Republicans trying to change the Constitution to let one particular candidate sneak into the Oval Office. That Charo, she would be a formidable opponent, with more cuchi-cuchi than Sarah Palin could ever muster.
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