Hat tip to radio host John Batchelor, one of the most talented narrators of our times, who has just posted on his Web site, with brief background text, a video you have absolutely got to see:
John Galt Beginnings: Daniel Hannan MEP South East England. This is the first time I’ve seen Hannan in action. Question is, how do we get Hannan over here to America, so we can start voting for him too?
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6 Comments
1. Phineas:The Republicans should hire him to give the next televised response to a presidential speech.
Mar 26, 2009 - 5:48 am 2. Pops in Vienna:Dear Claudia,
What’s interesting is that the BBC refused to air the speech despite it being the most viewed YouTube video in the UK. This certainly demonstrates that BBC has become a propaganda machine for the international Left.
Unfortunately we do not have anyone like Dan Hannan in the USA. There’s another blog on PJ that’s urging us to get behind Jindal. I’m sure Jindal is a wonderful man but to beat Obama you’ll need somebody like Hannan.
That useless Michael Steele better get off his lazy RNC butt and find somebody because the presidential campaign starts 2 years before the actual election.
Please, don’t tell us it’s Arlan Specter or Chuck Hagel’s turn.
Mar 26, 2009 - 5:56 am 3. elvis:Yes,John Batchelor has a fabulous show Sunday nights.( I wish his podcasts were released on a more regular schedule.) The video you mention here is very powerful. Daniel Hannan’s and The “We the People Stimulus Package should be reviewed daily!
Mar 26, 2009 - 5:39 pm 4. Professor Guvinoff:May our Daniel Hannan arrive before the 12th imam comes out of his well.
Mar 27, 2009 - 2:49 pm 5. Samizdat:This was a stunning display of political and economic honesty. Hannan knows that the more his government’s consumption of GDP increases, the harder it is to create conditions of prosperity.
Mar 30, 2009 - 11:28 am 6. Helen:The conservatives in the US need to grow a pair and begin to articulate the case against socialism. I don’t know if the Republicans can do it anymore. A majority of them seem to be Democrat lite or afraid to confront liberals with fact and truth. Hannan is the man, it’s nice to know there is someone in the West who knows economic reality and will speak it.
Robust growth can not occur without attraction of private capital. Governments are historically ineffective at creating private sector jobs. Sound monetary policy coupled with tax reduction, repeatedly creates conditions where wealth grows. Without wealth, growth can not occur. The unemployed and the impoverished can not employ workers. Hannan implicitly understands these realities.
Don’t bother to get him over there – he supports Obama. Did during the election and has recently repeated it on his blog. And, by the way, he is a Conservative politician – it is his very well paid job to attack the government.
Mar 31, 2009 - 5:39 pm