Cindy McCain, Foreign Agent?

The multinational beer brewing corporation !nBev, headquartered in Belgium, with operations in Brazil, Canada, Britain and who-knows-where, has made an angry, drunken advance unsolicited take-over bid for Anheuser-Busch, largest brewery in the U.S. of A. and brewer of Budweiser.

Budweiser! Holy Clydesdale! Is nothing sacred?

While everyone else examines the business and Wall Street angles of this all-cash $46 billion deal (as if US dollars weren’t play money in the rest of the world), and whether Busch Stadium will have to change its name, consider this:

GOP First Lady Presumptive Cindy Lou McCain is the hereditary Anheuser-Busch Princess of Phoenix, Arizona, a kingdom worth millions. If Belgian flag !nBev buys Anheuser-Busch, could it be that Mrs. McCain will be required to register as an agent of a foreign country?

Nah, me neither. Got another cold one?

Top Image by Mike Licht, who (full disclosure) drinks O’Doul’s Amber Malt Beverage, an AB product. Download an image copy here (sorry, no beer downloads). Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

!nBev (which may mean something in Walloon) and the !nBev logo are registered trademarks of !nBev;  Anheuser-Busch and half the logos in America are registered trademarks of the Anheuser-Busch Cos. Trademarks are used here to avoid brand confusion and having to write  “a certain huge St. Louis brewer” and similar coy locutions.