Perdue (not Frank either)

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Mar 21 00:52:38 UTC 2011


At 5:35 PM -0700 3/20/11, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:
>  >From my inbox. The spelling of "Purdue" in the subject line above
>was from the original.
>
>--- Begin forwarded message:
>
>  You, who worry about democrats versus republicans--relax, here is
>our real problem. In a Purdue University classroom, they were
>discussing the qualifications to be President of the United States .
>It was pretty simple. The candidate must be a natural born citizen
>of at least 35 years of age. However, one girl in the class
>immediately started in on how unfair was the
>requirement to be a natural born citizen. In short, her opinion was that
>this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming
>president. The class was taking it in and letting her rant, and not many
>jaws hit the floor when she wrapped up her argument by stating "What
>makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country
>than one born by C-section?"

Maybe she'd been paying too much attention in English class when they
read "Macbeth".

LH

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