Body-builder turned actor turned politician, Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling for a Constitutional amendment to allow foreign born American citizens to become President. He even refers to Sylvester Stalone’s movie, Demolition Man, where Sly wakes up in the future and finds the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library. When he questions how that can be since Arnold wasn’t born an American citizen, Sly is told that they amended the constitution for Arnold.

But in the same interview, our hopeful future President calls for George Bush to throw him some federal money in the present.

“If the federal government does great things for California this year, I think there’s no two ways about it: President Bush can have California and he can be elected. I’m absolutely convinced of that,” he said.

So, Arnold thinks that the federal government should bail California out of its financial crisis. What, pray tell, is the constitutional basis for the federal government to get involved in this purely state affair? As the Constitution itself says in Amendment X:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Before we talk about amending the constitution, I really think we ought to start enforcing the one we currently have. That means, Arnold, you will just have to fix your own financial house and don’t ask Washington to do what the Constitution does not allow. After you learn that lesson, we can talk about changing the Constitution to allow you to become President, but not before.