Bono: Mr. President, Africa Needs Us

Washington Post ^ | 01/27/03 | Bono

[cyborg]

he's a walking cliche' because he pulled that same glasses crap even with the pope. Is he blind? He isn't Stevie Wonder who HAS to wear the dark glasses.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Bullet the Blue Sky. A powerful song in it's own right, Bono and the band made a powerful statement about gun control by first showing a smiling Charlton Heston (Boo!) saying that there were no bad guns, just bad people. They then projected the fact that since 1980, there have been 676,000 people killed by guns, along with images of children & one little girl playing with a gun. During the song, where Bono tends to give a little speech about bombs & war, he instead spoke of someone walking into their local Wal-Mart & putting down $100 ($200, $300) for a gun & stalking John Lennon. "War is Over." Yelled Bono prowling the stage with a giant spotlight, which he trained on the crowd, "We don't need you anymore. We're making war with ourselves! Pull The Trigger!"

GO BACK TO IRELAND YOU NASTY SCRUB

[Fraulein]

Clinton and Bono:



"Bono celebrated the Millennium with a solo rendiiton of "One" in front of more than 300,000 people in Washington, DC. Bono and the entire Hewson family was in the U.S. capital to take part in the White House-sponsored "America's Millennium Gala" on the Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument...Bono paid tribute to U.S. President Bill Clinton for the U.S. role in encouraging peace in Ireland and for the U.S. support of Third World debt cancellation."

[Fraulein]

[I_Love_My_Husband]

That hairpiece/rug he wears in addition to the blue sunglasses makes it really hard for me to take whatever he says seriously.

Of course being involved with junkie Winona Ryder when you're married is also an indication of his...um, dedication.

[altair]

Why is Uganda(right country?) the liberal's dirty little secret?

I don't think that's the right one. The only country in Africa I'm aware of that's doing well is an island nation off the coast (and I can't remember it's name off the top of my head). By a strange coincidence it is the only country in Africa with a democratically elected government and a capitalist economy.

[Hacksaw]

The best thing we Americans could do for Africa is to conquer it (starting with the regions richest in natural resources), and impose Western culture and values upon those living there now.

That was already tried before.

[JudgemAll]

Mr. Bono, we need Africa too, but Africa hates us!!!!

[backhoe]

Here are some links to information I keep handy to "get everyone up to speed" on the situation in Africa:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/involved?group=214

-AfricaWatch--

http://www.eaglesup.com/rhodesia.html

-Daily Reports Rhodesia--

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/743608/posts

-Rhetoric of blame is now a white lie (AFRICA, HEAL
THYSELF)--

http://www.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fmain.jhtml%3Fxml%3D%2Fnews%2F2002%2F09%2F03%2Fwsumm203.xml%26sSheet%3D%2Fnews%2F2002%2F09%2F03%2Fixnewstop.html

-I remember Africa in the
1960s, everyone was filled with high expectations--

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b9a574e699b.htm

-First it was Rhodesia then SA now
America paying the price of silence--

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/602444/posts

-A Capsule
History of Southern Africa--

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/739126/posts

-Parallels between Apartheid SA & USA
today--

http://www.hixnet.co.za/home/kel/sacp.html

-South African Crime Report--

http://www.zwnews.com/getinvdetails.cfm?GetInvID=42

-Degrees in Violence: Robert Mugabe and the Struggle
for Power In Zimbabwe--

http://www.mpr.org/books/titles/fuller_dontletsgo.shtml

-Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight--

http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/cry-the-beloved-country.html

-Cry, the Beloved Country--

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/anarcf.htm

-The Coming Anarchy--

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/742930/posts

-South Africa - The sellout of a nation--

[John O]

To Bono and all Africa: Here's the solution.

1. Ladies keep your legs closed until you are married. Be sure to have your prospective husband (and yourself) tested prior to marriage. Reject any one already infected. Have relations ONLY with your husband

2. Men. keep it in your pants until you are married to a clean woman. Stop performing perverted sex. Have relations ONLY with your wife. (and of course have yourself and her tested before the marriage and reject unclean candidates)

3. Wait 20 years. the problem will heal itself.

AIDs (sometimes called GRIDS) is not a medical problem. It's a behavioral problem. It is 100% avoidable.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

OMG!

At first I thought that was a picture of me with the Perv-president. Never saw Bonehead before.

I can't believe that worm looks like me.
Going to have to kiss a belt sander or something.
At least I've got a lot of grey hair.

[zygoat]

Can't really blame Boner for wearing safety glasses around the viscositator.

[Uncle Bill]

" But I hope that for a few minutes the president will talk about the global AIDS crisis -- and define a historic American response."

Must be good cocaine that Bono gets. Bush has already wasted our hard-earned money and pandered.

'We Stand with Africa' - Bush

"Government ought to have a policy that helps people with a downpayment." - George W. Bush

Bush to Propose $500M AIDS Funding

Bush pushes minority homeownership

A Home Of Your Own: Expanding Opportunities for All Americans

Bush Touts Low - Income Homes Plan

U.S. Prepares 'Big-Time' Response To Famine - Impact of African crisis could be felt at White House

Bush to Propose Another $100 Million Over Five Years for Education in Africa

President Highlights Compassionate Conservative Agenda for Inner Cities

James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this limitation in a letter to James Robertson:

"With respect to the two words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles of Confederation," and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted.

In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)

"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."
Thomas Jefferson

"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions."
James Madison, "Letter to Edmund Pendleton," -- James Madison, January 21, 1792, in The Papers of James Madison, vol. 14, Robert A Rutland et. al., ed (Charlottesvile: University Press of Virginia,1984).

Source

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George W. - Master of Disguise

[neutrino]

Tell ya what, bono. You can give all your money (all of it, even the trust funds - and your house, too) to Africa. Leave my money (and my tax money) out of it.

[cyborg]

Really? I am going to do some more research and post whatever I find. Africa needs liberal help like a hole in the head. They really need an army of loving christian missionaries to show them how to a run a government (Mugabe and Mandela are you listening?).