A fact finding trip? I think not! Campaign signs on the police barricades at the Western Wall in Jerusalem would seem to me to point toward a very different agenda for the Barry O. And those signs would point to a need for the Barry O campaign to pay for the trip instead of the American Taxpayer.
As a fact finding junket trip it's up to every American to pay for the trip for Barry O. (The New American Aristocracy world travel perk)
But if this is in fact just another sort of grandstanding for his campaign, which of course we all know it is, then it is up to the Obama campaign to pay for the trip.
Obama is a very ballsy type of guy, flaunting his obvious campaign trip as a fact finding tour, mingling with world leaders - (getting in the way of the current Liberal Administrations relations with foreign dignitaries.) And just generally making a fool of himself on the world stage with his inability to stand behind a podium without a teleprompter telling him precisely what to say. Extemporaneous expostulations are not his bag it seems.

And then of course he isn't just running for President of the United States, he apparently want to be World President. A quote from a Fox News source shows the thought of being a world citizen.

“I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before, although tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen — a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world,” Obama said from his perch next to the Victory Column in Berlin.
How exceedingly distasteful Barry O is while he does the glaringly obvious attempt to show his credibility as a statesman for the consumption of the American Public. In hopes of course the Obamanites at home will be captivated and enthralled by his World Class Stature, and his gravitas, of which he has none.

Obama needs to confess this apparent crime of political pandering on a world stage at the expense of the American public, and then allow his campaign to pay back that American Public for the cost of his posturing on the world stage. Or show that the campaign has paid for every single mile travelled on his tour.

If there is one person out there who really believes this trip was nothing more than a fact finding trip - bad enough in its own right, instead of a political stunt for his campaign, I strongly recommend you stop drinking the kool-aid now, and call your local mental health facility because you are in dire need of professional help.

Physics be damned. Al Gore wants all energy from renewables in ten years. Today I heard that moron speaking on the radio about how much energy can be gotten from the sun. He stated "enough energy falls on the earth every forty minutes to supply the whole planets electricity for a full year" There are also unkind indvivuals who might suggest enough sunshine falls on Al Gore every forty minutes to power a small Blakn nation for a year. But, I have digressed from my point.

Moron One suggested taking some of that energy and using it would save mankind from a fate worse than losing the Presidency or being eaten by very small rodents, or eating small rodents.

Problem: The earth happens to need the energy which falls on it. One of the reasons we tap into stored energy (oil, coal, nuclear, hydro, candle tables, the residue left over from Al Gores last lyposuction) is the lack of effect it has on the energy balance of the planet as a whole. (precisely because it is stored energy)

Certainly we could tap into the solar energy splaying itself over the oceans of the world where the population pressures are non existent, but has any of the knuckleheads who continue to tout the advantages of solar power considered what might happen to the weather if we disrupt the solar infusion of warmth to the oceans? Nope.

So then we move the solar panels to the land masses, still plenty of land mass unused, except for the places where humans tend to congregate is where the weather tends to be at least moderately pleasant - and sunny more often than cloudy, and warm more often than abominably cold.

So then we have people living where they do, and needing electrical power, OK we move the solar farms away from the people and make power. Then the power has to be routed to the electrical grid and sent to where the people are, except power can only be sent just about so far and then the line loss is more than the amount we can push through the lines. Damn, there go those pesky old laws of physics again.

Ever wonder why all of the coal fired, natural gas and nuke powered electric plants are so close to the areas that need the power? The laws of physics control that issue. Legislate all you want too and the laws of physics just sit there laughing at the morons trying to pass laws in contravention of the laws of physics.

But I have digressed somewhat, back to the Moron Majority Leader Al Gore, Solar energy is needed for plants and critters to survive, is PETA and the Sierra Club going to allow humans to rob nature of the available solar power for out own benefit/ Or will they just tie it up in court the way they do the nuke plants, new refineries and new coal fire power plants?

And as far as wind power goes, the Moron Majority Leader suggest there is enough wind flowing through the the Midwest Cooridor everyday to meet 100% of the electrical needs of the good old US of A, except then what happens to the Spotted Owls, Peregrine Falcons, Bald Eagles, California Condors and maybe a duck or two who get confused and fly into the windmills? PETA and the Sierra Club again - see above.

Then there is geothermal power, not content to drain the oil out of the earth and let the bearings freexe up from lack of lubrication and maybe have the entire planet stop turning on it's axis, Al Gore now wants us to drain the heat system of the planet and take all the hot water we can from deep inside the bowels of the earth. even to a Conservative Planet Raper such as myself the idea seems a bit risky to just take the plunge (so to speak) and start removing vast amounts of heat from the mantle of the planet on a commercial or industrial scale.

In the transcript of the Moron Majority Leader is the following quote:

• To those who argue that we do not yet have the technology to accomplish these kinds of results with renewable energy, I ask them to come with me to meet the entrepreneurs who will drive this revolution. I've seen what they're doing, and I have no doubt that we can meet this challenge.

In that quote, he doesn't come right out and say it, but what he's talking about is the UFO ride he took with Dennis Kookcinich and ELRon Paul to the planet Nebulon where all facts are very nebulous and are able to be twisted in ways we have yet to even conceive of on Earth.

My thought is that I wish the three of them had stayed there and done their best to channel Shirley Mc Claine to the planet with them.

Last and perhaps least, one last quote from the Moron Majority Leader, Al Gore:

The French Council of State gave the decision on her appeal last month after an original application was turned down in 1995.
The reason stated by the Council of State is her lack of assimilation into French Society.  Bravo to the French Council of State!

A quote from the [url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1173478020080711?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0 t=_blank]Reuters story[/url] states:

[quote]The legal expert who provided a formal report on the case to the Council of State wrote that the woman's interviews with social services revealed that "she lives almost as a recluse, isolated from French society," Le Monde reported.
"She has no idea about the secular state or the right to vote. She lives in total submission to her male relatives. She seems to find this normal and the idea of challenging it has never crossed her mind," Emmanuelle Prada-Bordenave wrote.[/quote]

As  I said, Bravo to the French Council of State for holding the line.
Now, can I get such a common sense approach from my own country of origin, the United States? Seems unlikely for a nation whose elected officials and those seeking office who seem to have an extreme desire for National "suicide by infiltration"