President Arnold?

Bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will never become president. No, that is not an opinion -- the Constitution mandates that only people born on US soil can sit in the Oval Office. Do you think the Constitution should be amended to allow foreign-born US citizens become president?
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No, I think the president should be born on U.S. soil. The framers designed our Constitution the way they did for a reason. While the Constitution is a document that lives, breathes and changes over time, nothing should interfer with the Bill of Rights and our president should stay native born.

Jennifer, Boston

The President should be born in the U.S.A.! Don't let the revisionist liberals screw with this issue also. Leave the Constitution as is!!

Marcus, Milton

No.

Steve, Framingham, MA

Absolutely not

Mrs. H., Islamorada

NO! A person who is not a native born citizen cannot be trusted to have the best intersts of this country at heart. There needs to be a balnket prohibition against this possiblity. The Schwazenegger phenomenon is a very good case for a "popular" person without any policy platform being elected sole;y on popularity rather than for the good of all of society. Our Founding Fathers wanted to ensure that this country would remain purged of all foregn loyalties to create this new republic.

Frank , Wakefield

I believe the Constitution should stay as is. The founders of our country had a vision of how this new land should be governed. I don't believe a foreign-born citizen should have the right to run for president. That should be reserved for U.S. born citizens. I also think people are going a little crazy over Arnold. The man hasn't even shown that he's capable of governing California yet. Let's hold off on the "Arnold for Prez" for now.

kelly , hyannis

There should not be an amendment to the Constitution for foreign born citizens to become preisdent of the US. The standards for being becoming president of the US should be very high. We need leaders in the highest office of the US who could follow in the footsteps of Adams, Jefferson and Washington. What would our founding fathers think of a man like Schwarzenegfger for president?

rosemary, cambridge ma.

NO. The founding fathers were wise to make this a qualification, though their reasons then (to keep anyone English out of the running) are different than our need for this requirement today: it keeps us Americans from becoming victim to our own infamously short national attention span. Not that a Tony Blair, for example, wouldn't be an improvement over the bozo currently in that office, but this requirement puts the brakes on our fleeting sentimentality.

Jaye, Hubbardston

No!

Eileen, Cambridge

Absolutely! So long as foreign-born US citizens die in defense of this country, they should have the same rights as those born here. Any other answer is just plain un-American.

David, Dedham