Shot of the Day....Et tu U 2? Bush Bono Babble

this is just plain creepy, hey Bono.........do your homework man

Don't insult Africa, this continent so rich yet so badly led. Instead, insult its leaders, who have ruined everything. Our anger is all the greater because despite all the presidents for life, despite all the evidence of genocide, I never heard BONO, Anjelina Jolie or anyone at Live 8 raise a cry for democracy in Africa.

• Neither debt relief nor huge amounts of food aid nor an invasion of experts will change anything. Those will merely prop up the continent's dictators. It's up to each nation to liberate itself and to help itself. When there is a problem in the United States, in Britain, in France, the citizens vote to change their leaders. And those times when it wasn't possible to freely vote to change those leaders, the people revolted.

Comments

[tankdemon]

Atlas, I think that you are right on the money about Africa being ruined by its leaders, but I think you might have overstepped just a bit on the "Do your homework," comment. Bono has done his homework on Africa, and I would be willing to take his word on what the situation there is over any university professor's. Yes, he is a lib, and his proposed solutions veer toward the pie in the sky, but I will give him credit for admitting that Bush has done more for Africa than any other president, even if he wasn't exactly shouting it from the stage at Edinborough.

[Billmil]

Reform Executive Outcomes and for their first contract send them to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) to get rid of that lunatic Mugabe. After that we can work on the rest of the tin pot dictators that are enabled by the communists and left leaning western governments

[Partamian]

Once again, you have nailed it. When will people realize the true nature of Africa's problem?

[Ted Seay]

Tankdemon: I think Atlas is exactly correct about this -- Bono doesn't need to do his homework about Africa -- he needs to learn the basics of political economy.

No one has starved in Africa for anything other than purely political reasons for over half a century now...

[Tom DeLay]

Those silly liberals really think you can stop the Hammer? There’s no chance in hell! I have legions of Murka-loving, librul-hating supporters that will crush them bastards!

Once we topple the liberal media and exterminate the Democrats we will unleash the Glorious Christian Cultural Revolution…and then they will all suffer the wrath of the Lord.

Yo Atlas, you are hot! Are you with me? Will you support The Hammer?

[wxjames]

Tom, with or without you, we'll crush the librul asshols. Go back to being an exterminator. You may be needed in this bird flu thingy.

[Cousin Dave]

Atlas, I agree, you've hit the nail on the head. It's been my own observation for a while now that there is no place on Earth today where people starve unless someone else wants them to. Hunger is the latest and greatest tool in the dictator's toolkit. We have reached the point where nothing else in Africa will change until and unless the thugs are removed. Whether it's us that does it, or the African citizens themselves, I'm not particular.

Guys like Bono and Bob Geldof are great at identifying the problems and bringing attention to them. But that's been done. Time for the next step. And that is where the Bonos of the world have to step aside and lend their support to the people who have the necessary expertise. That's the part I don't see happening. Bono and Geldof can't bring themselves to admit what has to be done, and support it. (In part because the necessary measures are politically incorrect in their Hollywood crowd, and Bono knows it'll cost him most of his friends and associates.) They know that the solutions they've tried before didn't work, but they won't yet own up to the necessary measures, and they don't know what else to do. I honestly believe that Live 8 happened simply because Bob Geldof was out of ideas, and he needed to be seen to "do something".

[Tyranno]

The really funny thing about the photo is that Bono is fantastically more wealthy than Bush, but hey, you throw on some tragically fashionable black duds, goofy shades, mousse your hair and spout the party pieties ~ suddenly the mainstream media is acting like Bono is the only guy making a difference out there???
Pres Bush/America has legislated and contributes billions towards bettering Africa and helping its people, but because there is no tangible result that the media can point to, they get little or no credit that I have seen.
Bono however, like all good liberals, gets fawning credit and maximum coverage for his "good intentions."

To his credit Bono is proving to be more honest than the vast vast majority of the left. I wonder how much of his own money he has been putting into Africa?

Tyranno