I want a President who can see gamma rays, hear x-rays and smell dark matter.
Kal El was born outside the US, & never legally immigrated.
Yes, but no one knows that, and he was found unattended in the US. I’m not sure what the laws were at the time when the first Superman comic was issued, but the law that is current, and has been current long enough that it would apply to someone in his 30s, is that a child found within the US with no known provenance, whose parents are unable to be found, and who appears to be under 5 years old (certified by a doctor, based on teeth, development, and bone growth), is presumed to have been born here. This is for purposes of making the child eligible for services.
I’m not sure how much DNA has changed things, but it probably has just changed how relatives are searched for. A child is not left in Limbo. There’s a time period for searching for relatives before a child of unknown provenance is declared available for adoption. I’m not sure how long that is, but if anything, DNA would be likely to ferret out auxiliary relatives in prison or the military, who might be able to say which siblings, cousins, nieces, etc. could have a child the right age. Since absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, failing to find relatives does not allow the conclusion that there are none in this country, just that their DNA is not in a databank.
Anyway, while the audience knows Kal El’s provenance, no one else does, not even Kal El until he is older, so statutorily, he would be presumed to have been born in the US.
I second this, because Veterans’ health issues are near-and-dear to my heart (I’m also an AF retiree).
My POTUS should:
- Be an honorably discharged veteran (w/preferrably 6+ years of service)
- Run on a platform of implementing term limits for members of the Congress
- Should let the experts in the various Federal Agencies do their job without political interference or influence (i.e. FCC, NIH, CDC), while;
- respecting the voices of eleven long-haired friends of Jesus* in their chartreuse microbus.
- should aim to reduce the National Debt (and probably take a lesson or two from Dave Ramsey)
- be willing to sit down, and be a part of international groups (NATO, G8, G20, etc.) like a competent conversationalist instead of a petulant child
- be willing to actually exercise instead of golfing all the fuckin’ time. Bonus points if they’re a CrossFit-ter.
- not have to be an MD, but should have some motherf*ckin’ patience.
*Note: not limited to Christianity, but the song in my head didn’t have a reference to the other just-as-important faiths.
ETA: I kinda like this guy.. I got to meet him at the Charlotte, NC 2012 DNC.
Tripler
Pun intended.