[Rightwing Canuck]

"I'm uncomfortable being a rich rock star, doing this. I'm unhappy with that juxtaposition. I would love not to be doing this - for somebody else to do it who was not as compromised as me. That guilt has driven me to be a policy wonk. It makes me queasy to turn up just for the photo opportunity so I turn up for the briefing as well. I go to bed with World Bank reports. These issues are bigger than whether it makes me comfortable or not. So the band might cringe, I might wince, but I went to Washington to get a cheque and I'm going back to get a bigger one."

This man is a buffoon. Millionaire asking the working man on the street to hand over his money to a foreign state.

[wimpycat]

Awww, you beat me to it. I was about to post this same article when I did a search and found you had already done it! Good work.

This is an interesting article on many levels. Bono, like it or not, is going after what he wants in an effective manner. Instead of, or in addition to, raising money at concerts to show how much he "cares", he's going to Washington himself, knocking on doors and asking for what he wants.

I'd heard about my man Jesse Helms going to a U2 concert sometime last year. He had to turn his hearing-aid down.