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flea - Jan 10, 2007 3:32:43 am PST #1623 of 10001
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Reference question left on voice mail overnight: "I want some information about John F. Kennedy. He was from England, right? Like, London? Also, did he have any military experience?"

Dear Patron, Just because JFK had a funny accent doesn't mean he was from England. There's this place in the north called Boston where they talk like that. (Also, foreign-born people can't be President. And yes, he was in World War 2, like most men of his age. He was kind of a hero, in fact; see the PT-109 incident.)

Kat - Jan 10, 2007 3:38:41 am PST #1624 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I want to go with Lee to Seattle and Portland. but it has to be in the next month or so. So I guess I don't go. Sad now.

Cashmere - Jan 10, 2007 3:43:18 am PST #1625 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

flea, please tell me that caller was from Mars or something.

Kat - Jan 10, 2007 3:46:05 am PST #1626 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

vest

tommyrot, the dogs in training who will be companion dogs of some kind often wear a vest, but I like to think of it as a cape. Then they are more super dogs then dogs-in-training.

flea, couldn't a foreign-born person of two US citizens still be president? Which is not to say that the caller isn't stupid, but just curious.

Fred Pete - Jan 10, 2007 3:51:54 am PST #1627 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Not flea, but

U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 5:

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.

Seems to say that you just have to be born a citizen. Location of birth not an issue.

Tom Scola - Jan 10, 2007 3:54:54 am PST #1628 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Robopanda!

flea - Jan 10, 2007 4:04:19 am PST #1629 of 10001
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Yes, you're all right about the citizenship. I meant being born a foreign citizen, not simply being born overseas. (Which rules out Schwarzenegger, yay!)

Topic!Cindy - Jan 10, 2007 4:05:27 am PST #1630 of 10001
What is even happening?

Yeah, but did he have any military experience @@...@@...@@...

flea - Jan 10, 2007 4:12:15 am PST #1631 of 10001
information libertarian

Mallory, however: can be president. Just not for a couple of years.

Kat - Jan 10, 2007 4:15:12 am PST #1632 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Okay, but next weird question... outside of the original set of presidents who were all both foreign citizens at birth, has there ever been a foriegn born president?

I'm trying to recall ANYTHING from high school civics. But that was almost half of my lifetime ago and I can't remember shit.

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