Which will come first?

[st_swithin]

'Can't we just declare another emperor or something, you know, like Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton II?'

Samuel Langhorn Clemens, San Francisco, 1867

[Ben Kenobi]

and you can bet that "natural born" will be interpreted to mean "not manufactured." An AI isn't "born," it's "made."

Boris:

Beware MacDuff.

What about C-Sections? Do they count as natural born, since they require the intervention of technology?

[Kuciwalker]

obiwan - read my previous post.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I always say the same thing in threads like these, so here it is again:

A president has to come from somewhere; increasingly, "somewhere" is either a governorship, the Senate, or the Vice Presidency.

There has never been either a woman or non-white veep, of course, though there has been a woman on the ticket. There are currently 6 women governors and 14 women Senators. There are no black governors and no black Senators. I believe there is only one non-white governor (Asian-American Gary Locke of Washington) and only 3 non-white Senators (the two Hawaiians and native American Ben Lighthorse Campbell).

Women are way, way out in front here, in terms of who has access to power and campaign experience. It'll be a woman.

[Kuciwalker]

I still think it'll be a non-christian. A Jew or an atheist.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by skywalker
I still think it'll be a non-christian. A Jew or an atheist.

No atheist in my life time, and maybe not for the next 97 years.

[Dr Strangelove]

Are we certain that no non-christians have ever been elected to the presidency? Warren Harding comes to my mind, he was the only president to ever die of alcohol related disease. He must at least have been pretty close to being a non-christian.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Are we certain that no non-christians have ever been elected to the presidency? Warren Harding comes to my mind, he was the only president to ever die of alcohol related disease. He must at least have been pretty close to being a non-christian.

At lease no one has stood up and said out loud that "I am not a christian and I don't believe in God".

[Sikander]

I think it will be:

Non-white
Woman
Non-christian

[st_swithin]

My prediction:

Non-non-fat
Non-white
Non-blonde
Non-man
Non-alien

[Sikander]

Originally posted by st_swithin
My prediction:

Non-non-fat
Non-white
Non-blonde
Non-man
Non-alien

I myself could support a low-fat candidacy, though I don't think the nation is ready for a caffein-free candidate.

[Atahualpa]

How about a non-white and non-christian woman under the age of 40 from a third party and partly augmented by artificial intelligence?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Atahualpa
How about a non-white and non-christian woman under the age of 40 from a third party and partly augmented by artificial intelligence?

Are you nominating st_swithin?

[Atahualpa]

I said partly augmented by artificial intelligence

j/k
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