Whether coming from the dumbocrats or the dumbpublicans, big government is crushing liberty. And that is sad.

Thomas Paine

if y'all wanna know what Bono's all about, go over to YouTube & search "Conspiracy of Hope"

Bono & Bush -- no more aparteid, no more communism

A liberty medal presented by Bush is like a chastity belt presented by Paris Hilton.

The only tune Bono is singing these days, is one that only the world leaders, are ready to dance to.

But luckily for him he's an Irish citizen. So when things get REALLY bad here he can always escape to sanity. But he does good stuff. So I won't hold that against him.

It's amazing how time seems to heal all wounds. John Dean and Ashcroft are the voices of reason du jour. Bush senior doesn't seem so stupid, compared to his progeny. Bill Clinton's infidelities pale as time goes by as people realize how better off they were in the 90's...

My guess is: our current resident of the white house will not enjoy the same fate. 10 years from now, he will still be the C-student, dry drunk, military deserter, poor businessman, arrogant, ignorant, lying sack of shit everyone thinks he is today. Just a guess......

Bono is a great guy but if I were him, I'd put an "asterisk" on that medal (considering who it came from). A "Medal of Freedom" , from a Bush --- how funny is that!

http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/americans.htm

"LET'S BE PERSONAL" Broadcast June 5, 1973 CFRB, Toronto, Ontario

Topic: "The Americans"

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

(cont'd)

"America is the only empire that went from barbarism straight to decadence, without bothering to create a civilization."

-- Oscar Wilde (from the play "Lady Windermere's Fan")

This is sickening!! The stupid, political, uneducated comments on this blog are a perfect parallel to the state of our world. I going to generalize a little, but this "political cult" that is represented here is amazing. If I stated that the sky was blue, by the third comment people would state it was Bush's fault, America's failure, and we need to change it before it kills us all. (Maybe we can make it green? It would be more environmentally friendly)

"America is not just a country, it's an idea, isn't it?
Yeah!and unfortunately the Bill of Rights is treated as a suggestion...

who says celebrities know shit? I certainly did not!

Bono use to have my respect for what he was doing. But now he has been sucked into the greed and power euphoria of the republican train. He has sold his soul to the devil, to make an appearance of helping those who need help. There are millions here in the US and England who are stuck in poverty, you dont see Bono stomping and screaming over that. There are millions in the US without health care, dying and sick. You dont see Bono going on about that. But if it will help bring another large cheap labor source healthy enough to work for pennies an hour and make capitalist and republicans more money, He is there screaming and pounding his fist.
In countries were change could be made quickly , like the US and England, Bono isnt there. But for the long haul, on a continent that offers natural resources to rape, cheap labor to exploit, Bono is there.

Some people here forgot how Bono used to call the WH at the end of just about every concert he did in the early 90s to try to get a message out about his causes. Bono isn't afraid to use his celebrity not for pol's photo ops but to get any of his agenda realized. He sees this as a two-way street. He put the practicality of accomplishing something ahead of partisanship -- even to the point of making nice with HW Bu$h despite the fact that he may recognize who he's dealing with. But he's not trying to change the West's political process. Maybe that does seem shortsighted, to say the least. Maybe he thinks it's up to US to take back our democracy...

Bono = bonehead whose idea is outdated.

Where's he been in the last 10 years? Fluffing up his idea of himself as a hero. Unfortunately, he seems to do this by being obsequious to all the criminals who are the problems: the pope, Bush, G8 leaders et al...

He's either a naivete or has an inflated ego. Either way, he give the monstrous slimeballs of the world free PR. They can rub off a bit of their surface stink by seeming to listen to him in endless photo ops.

That's why they're showering him with awards!