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Originally posted by lifesaver
Yeah, I had to call bullshit when they were showing Bob Hope clips of him being interviewed by Larry King in 1990 last week or so (after his death). LK asked him about running for office and he said some stuff about Jack Valenti or some other old actor from back in the day and a group of them trying to get him to run for president. His response to them was that he really wasnt that interested in the job. Had Bob paid attention in school, he might have known that you had to be a natural born citizen of the US to be president and wouldnt have let the 65,000 or so Political Sci. majors out there in TV land know he had no idea what he was talking about because Bob Hope, was born Leslie Townes Hope in 1903 in London, England to Brittish parents.
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I watched one of those Bob Hope specials many years ago. He had a skit about running for President of the United States. It ended with someone telling him he couldn't be the President because he was not born in the United States. It was funny.
Jack Valenti might have wanted Bob Hope to run for President of the Motion Picture Association of America which is the job JV holds now.
I for one am relieved that there is a clause in the Constitution saying that one must be native born in order to run for President. I would not want Arnold Schwarzenegger in the White House.
