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Originally posted by paigowprincess
1) agrees with scharzenegger that foreigners should be eligible to be elected president. Uh, no. Depending on where you were born and your family situation, possible conflict of interest. Austria might not be a problem for an american movie star, but that is only one guy.
2) Marriage is basically extinct in Europe as it should be in the US. Marriage is extinct in Europe? I didnt get taht memo. Did you, ncs?
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two things:
1. I would agree with you about #1, except there are people who are US citizens through their parents who just happened to be born in a different place (although lived their whole life in the US). For example, I have a friend who was born in Windsor but lived her whole life here. She can't be president. That doesn't seem right to me.
2. I think marriage is definitely deader in the UK than here, if anecdotal evidence means anything. I have a huge family there (not all one socio-economic class either, but mostly middle-class, and not all lefties) and only one of my cousins is married. Most of the rest of them are shacked up. At my cousin's wedding, a lot of her friends commented that they were throwbacks for getting married.
