A Job for All Americans

In the 2008 Democratic primary, Clinton supporters began to question if then Senator Obama was born in Kenya. This would mean he would not be eligible to become president of the United States. Since then many on the right have taken up the cause. Even after documents have been produced showing the president was born in Hawaii, many still question if these were fake. To me, it's a stupid topic to dwell on for his opponents. First of all, there is documentation. Maybe you believe they could have had someone in the Hawaii government make up a birth certificate. Why has nobody come out and said they have proof that it was faked? It is nothing more than a conspiracy theory. I once heard heard Rush Limbaugh say that he does not argue with conspiracy theorist because the conspiracy never stops. Second of all, Obama did not choose where he was born. If somehow the birthers were correct, would being born in another country make him less American? 

Then there are immigrants who come to this country and work hard, become  citizens, in doing so they become way more knowledgable of our country than those who were born here and they never have a chance to become president. Not that I really have a chance either but a different topic for a different time. 

Here is my solution. Amend the constitution to allow for any person who has been an American citizen for at least thirty-five years to be eligible to become president. Keep the fourteen year residency requirement. 

This would end people bickering over crazy theories about where someone was or was not born because they could not use that as a reason to try and disqualify someone from being president. It would also give those who would do a great job as president, a chance to become president no matter where they were born in this world. What is more American than that?