The inference I draw is that in a culture with a relatively smaller set of opportunities, a chance to achieve a long-lasting erection is given more value
than in a culture with a large set. But then how to explain Ireland ?

Perhaps this gives Nye's concept of "soft power" a whole new meaning?

Does that make the guy in the article the Cobra Commander?

Does Destro get a seat at the table at the Cobra Command center? He is from Scotland, originally.

So America's "hard power" leads to Britain's "hard" power?

Look, I'm as pro-erection as the next guy, but it still takes a certain mindset to get an erection flying into Camp David. I think it's egg first, then chicken, not the other way around. And regarding Sen. Clinton's lust for power - of course she wants power. No one runnning for president of the most powerful country in the world is power-shy. Hell, someone who didn't want power would make a terrible president. This is an example of the sexist double-standard she is held to (and I say that not as a fan - I'm a Democrat and will vote for her in the general election against any Republican with a chance at the nomination - but I wouldn't vote for her in the primaries.)

Do Obama, Edwards, Romney and McCain 'lust after power'? Or are they just civic minded individuals willing to take 4-8 years out of their lives to help us? Why single out Hilary?

As far as I can see, the only non-power hungary dude is ... Ron Paul. He wants to take the office [or Office] and start devolving its power.

Somewhere in a history of the Third Reich I read an anecdote of Goering boasting that at Party reviews, he could maintain the Nazi salute for much longer than that wimp Goebbels.

If it's apocryphal, I don't want to know.