Please. You're insulting Australopithecus by that comparison. Apparently this moron obviously started reading his Constitution from the end and got hung up on the big words so that he never made it to the main text, because the actual qualifications for President are as follows:
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.
Women are generally held to be 'persons' for those of us not living in 1832.
By his logic, non-whites aren't legally able to be president because at the time the Constitution was written, they had fewer rights than white women.
I don't think there's a cluebat big enough to enlighten this dude. He's no Australopithecus, more like the Missing Link. Shame he hasn't stayed missing!
*headdesk* I'm deeply embarrassed to live in the same state as this creature, and to see him published in my local newspaper is well...well...okay, words fail me.
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Date: 2008-02-23 05:00 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2008-02-23 05:03 pm (UTC)From: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.
Women are generally held to be 'persons' for those of us not living in 1832.
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Date: 2008-02-23 06:05 pm (UTC)From:I don't think there's a cluebat big enough to enlighten this dude. He's no Australopithecus, more like the Missing Link. Shame he hasn't stayed missing!
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Date: 2008-02-23 07:40 pm (UTC)From:I strongly suspect women were rather more highly regarded in australopithecan society.
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