(U-WIRE) -Should a foreigner be allowed to run for president? With another election four years away, this is a question you're going to hear thrown around more than a few times. Some will say it's a good thing, while others will rebut that vehemently. As for myself, I'm completely against it.
Now, having said that, some people will mention how nonsensical it is to allow foreigners some offices but not all. Sorry, folks, this isn't the mayor of Cross Plains we're talking about, it's the president of the United States.
Whoever holds this office represents our country to the world. He or she is the embodiment of what we are all about. In my eyes, for someone to fit the aforementioned criteria, he or she has to be a natural-born U.S. citizen.
This is no dig against foreigners by any means. I have the utmost respect and admiration for people with enough guts to leave their country and seek a better life. After all, improving the quality of life for you and your descendents is something for which most aspire. I firmly believe those people who legally enter our country positively contribute to society. They are strong-minded, hard-working individuals.
However, I am still strongly opposed to allowing them a chance to run for president. American-born citizens have a natural, innate patriotism that runs in their blood. It's something that cannot be taught
or learned.
I am willing to bet an American-born person would die for this country. Would someone born elsewhere feel the same? Some would, but there would be others who would have to think about it or decline.
When you are speaking of the office of the president of the United States, that person must bleed red, white and blue.
Here's another scenario. Let's say foreigners are allowed to run for president, and someone from France gets elected. He's a great, upstanding individual with great ideas for this country's future. How do you think he would react if, during his term, we had to go to war against France, his homeland, a place where many of his relatives still reside?
Would he be able to do it? It would be an obstacle this man would have to overcome. There are enough hurdles to leap over already. It would be foolish to add another one.
Now, while this is purely hypothetical, it could come to pass if a foreigner were elected.
For all you conspiracy theorists out there: What if a vehemently anti-American migrated here with the purpose of running the United States into the ground? Don't think for a second there wouldn't be someone out there with this notion. If people are willing to attach bombs to their bodies and blow themselves up, this would be a walk in the park.
I know the chances of these two scenarios actually taking place are at best minute, but still, we cannot allow the possibility.
What it all comes down to is the fact that the president should be the epitome of American. Would the leader of an organization like the NAACP be Hispanic, Caucasian or Asian? No, because he simply cannot grasp the hardships or ideals of blacks. He can sympathize with them and even lend a helping hand, but unless you are born with that understanding, you can never truly relate.
It's my main fear that one day we will elect someone president who doesn't understand or realize what it is to be an American. That, or maybe I'm petrified that one day, I will be stuck choosing between Hillary Clinton and The Terminator.
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