As the President continues to avoid the economic mess at home he finds solace in in the embrace of the crumbling Socialist governments in Europe.

The President took off for Europe to get away from the beating he continues to get here in the states. He is attending a NATO Summit where he appears to still have some popularity. After today's meetings he announced that he had won summit agreement to build a missile shield over Europe. The missile shield is designed to protect Europe from possible attack by Iran and mainly an effort by another outdated organization, NATO. In case you don't know, NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization which was formed in 1949 with the basic goal of containing the Russians. It was set up as kind of an all for one and one for all if they were attacked, nice idea if you have a standing army capable of banding together with other to repel your enemies, and the only member with that standing Army then as well as now is guess who, us.

Well anyway the relevance of NATO has been in question for some years and this summit was supposed to show that it is relevant and that the member countries of the should continue to support it financially mainly by the U.S. kind of the way we do for the UN, which brings us to how much is this going to cost. As usual President Obama was more interested in crowing his triumph at the summit and as usual won't discuss the particulars like, will it work and how much is it going to cost, because he and his people know it will end up costing the U.S. a fortune and we as a nation will not receive any benefit whatsoever and Europe may not either. Why not just inform Iran than if they make any aggressive moves towards any 'NATO' member they will be blown off the face of the earth, the easy cheap and direct approach.

The best part of this fun weekend in Portugal is that the Russians are going to be invited to be part of the missile shield but will not be given joint control. This is like being invited to a strip club and forced to wear a blindfold. Again, in case you missed it, the last time a missile shield was brought up in Europe by another inept President of the United States, the Russians made it clear that it was a bad idea and if you're from that part of the world it's a real consideration. The Russians are and have been in bed with the Iranians for a long and will more than likely do everything to keep this bad idea from ever happening. And in the end will be doing Europe and the U.S taxpayers a favor by saving us a fortune.

"I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery".
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712 - 1778 Political philosopher and educationist essayist

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