Back in the darkest days of WWII, when England stood alone, Roosevelt lacked the Constitutional authority to enter the war without the Congress(those were the days!), and Churchill desperately needed ships for the fleet. The US had spare destroyers, and the British had ports in the Caribbean and Canada. So, a swap was arranged. Destroyers for ports. As all such transactions that occurred between the US and England, it was terribly unequally weighted in the favor of Uncle Sam, but Churchill's back was against the wall. The program was dubbed 'Lend-Lease', and it proved helpful.
Well, OldSouth proposes we right that terrible injustice. We are as desperately in need of sane leadership as England was in need of destroyers. The UK has Dan Hannan.
We've got huge reserves of coal, natural gas, copper, and Disneyworld. Hell's-bells, we'll even throw in Bill and Hilary, a couple of disgraced New York governors, and half of the Screen Actors Guild. They're out of work anyway.
As this little snippet illuminates, Dan Hannan has a lot better understanding of the US Constitution than our PeopleInCharge.
We shouldn't let the fact that he was born in Chile and holds a UK passport be any sort of impediment...
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The Current Occupant is evidence enough that we no longer put much stock in that requirement that the President of the US be native born. Hannan would be an absolutely brilliant US President, if he could be talked into it, although I doubt that he would accept the job. I think he enjoys his present gig too much.
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