Yahoo! News - Schwarzenegger Backs Amending U.S. Presidential Rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger expressed support on Sunday for allowing foreign-born citizens to run for president.

Schwarzenegger, a native of Austria, said in a television interview he would support rescinding the constitutional rule that only U.S. citizens born in the United States can become president.

"There's many, many, many people here that have worked within a government and have done an extraordinary job and not have been born in America," Schwarzenegger said in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Ahhhh, so Arnold would fight for the rights of foreign-born citizens, but not for American gays and lesbians.

Is it just me, or does this seem hypocritical?

"If the federal government does great things for California this year, I think there's no two ways about it, President Bush can have California and he can be elected. I'm absolutely convinced of that," Schwarzenegger said.

Translation: California can be bought. But then other states would be asking for hand-outs also, and we couldn't have that, could we George?