>>>>>>Of course we want anyone who wants to run for president and meets the qualification requirements to be able to, ...
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>>>>>There's a qualification requirement?
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>>>>Yes, you have to be at least 35 years old and a natural-born citizen.
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>>>Sounds easier than becoming a janitor. I thought some literacy would be required.
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>>>Are you sure about the "natural born"? It may become interesting if such words are actually in the law, because in about fifteen years first US kids born in vitro will come of age... and if one of them runs, and the opponent's staff find this "not natural born" tag. That's not even SF, that's L&Order :).
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>>And here I was expecting something witty about Cesarian being unfit for democratic leaders.
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>Worse than that: we call it "carski rez" (emperor's incision), because the Slavic word for emperor, car/цар/tsar/czar/ćesar/cisař is probably derived from Caesar: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tsar so it would be appropriate in more than one way. But that twist was already used in the, ahem, The Scottish Play.

We call it "Kaiserschnitt", identical roots: probably a function of the probability of it happening more often whenever father/expected child were deemed "more worthy" than the mother, so the risk to the baby was minimized on smaller indications. But to think any MacDuff might be barred from becoming pres is a strange law.