Bono signs big names to fight Aids (Introducing the American Express Red Card)

Financial Times (UK) (excerpt) ^ | January 26, 2006 | Gary Silverman

[ferri]

now there is one celebrity i don't mind hearing from. he is a good guy i think.

[ChadGore]

“Red is a 21st century idea,”

[HAL9000]

Bono's okay, but I like The Edge better.

[bootless]

ping! :-)

[Txshep]

Bono is "pissing against the wind".

[ferri]

hope he isn't wearing his good shoes.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Using capitalist methods to achieve his social goals.... Even when I don't agree with the goals, I appreciate the method.

[nikola]

"For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!"

[Rastus]

That's like when Don Henley was working to preserve Walden Woods, and he was doing it through private contributions. There's probably very little Don Henley and I agree about, but I can appreciate his using that method instead of the government.

[zarf]

Go Bono! He's putting his money and time where his mouth is....good on him.

[zarf]

Bono insisted their partners see it as a money-making opportunity. “We said you had to make money, because if you don’t make money, you won’t want to invest,” he said. Mr Shriver said the partners had all signed up for at least five years.

Bono gets it.

[Moonman62]

How much of his money? He could give 90% and still be rich.

[Moonman62]

The color of blood to be spilled for the cause of revolutionary socialism.

[cricket]

My first thought. . .my second, of course. . .go 'red states'! In the 'red/white and blue' tradition. . .

[zarf]

I trust that Bono has given quite a bit of his own money...yet he's a smart guy; he's probably set up foundations that will dole out interest in perpetuity.

[DoughtyOne]

[ferri]

exactly, he isn't sitting around screaming about how someone should do something. he is DOING it.

[Moonman62]

Trust? Probably? But we know for a fact that he was buying expensive homes when he was asking the American taxpayer to pay for his projects.

[iPod Shuffle]

I thought Bono died in a ski accident.. what gives?