Perdue (not Frank either)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Gee, I only thought it applied to test-tube babies.

I guess they need a pretty bug tube, too....

JL

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> 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.
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> >--- Begin forwarded message:
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> >  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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