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To: Lou Weed who wrote (178911)	12/28/2005 3:49:40 PM
From: mistermj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bono is linking himself to conservative politics. Which is why you could learn from him also. Read his words...comprehend...think. I don't agree with all of Bono's politics...but he at least deserves respect. Rather than fall into the trap of typical left wing hysterics, he has taken a much more pragmatic and reasonable approach that gets results. Now, if only the rest of the left could grow up too. >>He gets a lot of credit for lobbying President Bush, who he has met several times. Today, the Bush administration contributes to one of his biggest causes, AIDS medication for Africa. “People openly laughed in my face when I suggested that this administration would distribute antiretroviral drugs to Africa,” Bono remembers. “They said, ‘You are out of your tiny mind.’ There's 200,000 Africans now who owe their lives to America.” How does he get support for his projects? “It was probably that it would be really wrong beating a sort of left-wing drum, taking the usual bleeding-heart-liberal line,” says Bono. Instead, he enlisted the ruling right of American politics. cbsnews.com