Arnie for president?

Maria Shriver has said she supports a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow people born outside the United States – like her husband, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger – to run for president.

Arnie for president?

Maria Shriver has said she supports a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow people born outside the United States – like her husband, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger – to run for president.

“We are a nation of immigrants. That’s how we started,” she said on NBC television’s The Tonight Show. “If people come here and live 20 years, work for this country, believe that they can change it, I don’t think we are in any position to say: ‘No. You are not capable. You are not OK to run.’”

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