Back around 1983 I saw U2 at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia, right up front. Their first couple of albums were just kickass music and they kept their pieholes shut about stuff that wasn't their business. Altogether, I've seen them in concert seven times, ending with the Joshua Tree tour (X2).

Now Paul Hewson (Bono) has somehow gotten the mistaken impression that people give a damn what he has to say when the band isn't playing behind him. He's going around the world with his damned hand out asking donor countries ([b]Gee, who could he be talking about....?[/b]) to forgive third world debt.

I'm sorry, I missed the part of his resume where he got a Masters in Public Administration or International Finance from SMU.

It's damned disappointing when people you looked forward to hearing from again get far too big for their ridiculous rockstar leather pants and think that a few million albums makes them more important than they really are. What a jagoff.

I've always thought Bono and U2 spewed massive amounts of PC Bullsh!t.  Glad you have finally seen through the smokescreen.

They become famous and think they can change the world with liberal crap!

I wrote them off when they put out that steaming pile of shite "Zooropa" or whatever it was called. The movie "Rattle and Hum" didn't do anything to endear them to me either.

I always liked Rage Against The Machine because there was never a message in their music. [rolleyes] [puke]

Bono is a DECENT guy? You've got to be joking. I guess all the other people who want to see your guns banned are DECENT guys? Man it is people like you who make it so easy.

I will agree with you on one thing. Bono has always been politicly active. He's a freakin Communist thinly veiled as a do gooder!

Bono has ALWAYS been an simpering ass clown.

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As I read this I am watching

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On Much Musics 80s!!

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I used to love them...

Now he makes me want to PUKE!

In my opinion (I have the right to one, after all!) `80's music was the worst. U2, REM, Boy George, it's all the same CRAP to my ears. There was less good music (to my ears) created during the `80's than in any single year of the `70's or the `90's. There were a few bright spots, but U2 and Boner wasn't one of them. Rap started in the `80's. To me that says it all. I completely stopped listening to FM radio through most of the decade. It wasn't until Alice in Chains, STP, and Soundgarden that I started to have a little faith in the music industry again.

Screw Boner. He sucks, his "music" sucks, and as we now see, his politics sucks. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!!!

I do if the issue is important enough.

Everyone:

send boner all your money and earthly possessions, for he knows how to put them to the best use for the 'needs of the many over the needs of the few'
and
send him all of your firearms and sharp, pointy objects.  he will gladly crush them under one of koffi's steamrollers.

he wants to do this with your stuff, not his.

boner - what a useless pos.

Well, his stance on gun control is only one of many reasons Bono is an ass clown.

His crusade to show America that African countries are putting our money to good use is a JOKE! Anyone who believes that the leaders of those countries aren't pocketing money probably also believes in the tooth fairy. It's been common practice in Africa for a LONG time, and it isn't going away anytime soon.

And what about his creative idea to forgive third world debt? Sounds alot like wealth redistribution to me.

So I say again, Bono is an ass clown.

And anybody who says that Bono is a decent guy, sure sounds like an ass clown as well.

Did you guys see the Simpsons episode when Homer was running for Sanitation Commissioner?  He crashed a U2 concert and Bono intervened to allow Homer to speak because "Garbage is an issue that affects the whole damned planet!".  The parody was absolutely hilarious, but was (sadly) very close to the truth.

Bono is a tool that thinks government solutions will solve fundamental social problems.  I dislike the fact that he is trying to pry money out of the US when he is not a citizen.  He is more than capable of taking the proceeds from his concert tours and doing something useful all by himself...

Can't say that I do...

Oh, wait a minute — You mean way back when he was just the vocalist for a 3-chord rock band? Well then, vaguely...

Remember When Bono Wasn't A Simpering Ass Clown?



No

Holy cow!  Something Jarhead and I actually agree upon!  Hallelujah!

If Bono is such a great guy, why doesn't he give away all his money to help the causes?  It's really easy to spend other folks' money, especially when you can do it via some faceless government agency.  Bono is utterly gutless--rather than rob people on the street like the common criminal he is, he robs us by proxy and makes the weak-minded praise him even though he is just a white collar criminal.  Achtung, baby!  This is racketeering at its finest!  No wonder he wears those rose colored glasses all the time.  

I wish celebrities and entertainers would stop pretending like they are knowledgable on a wide range of topics.  They are mainly the "useful idiots" that people like Castro love so much.  I like the quieter celebs who don't make a big stinking deal about this or that cause.  All that meddling often makes things worse, not better.  3rd World debt forgiveness only sounds good on the surface.  Remember, someone ends up footing the bill and that someone is usually the US taxpayer, which is why our damn taxes are so high.  So instead of helping the 3rd World, what will ultimately happen is this country will be dragged down more and more and come to resemble the debt-forgiven pissant countries whose constitutions are written in pencil.  Thanks a bunch there, Bono(head).

Every two-bit dictator in the world seems to have their hand in our till one way or another.  Now we have the war on terror which promises to bankrupt us all, and let's not forget the war on drugs still raging--Colombia is going to ask for even more dinero.  I guess the $2Billion we sent there last year barely covered their army's underwear budget.

agree. but you know what guys? someday, i too wanna be embarassed by my wealth.  and that vacuum? screw it! ill buy all of you a bushmaster varminter and 5k rounds. that should take care of that vacuum.

"Remember when Bono wasn't a simpering ass clown?"

Simple answer: No.

and oh yeah, Bono and U2 does suck. i gave all my cds of them away about 4 years ago. Zooropa was a piece of shit album that made me kick myself in the ass for spending the bucks for it. it was the last album i ever bought of those clowns.

I don't know how DonR feels about Bozo but, I do know how he feels about ass clowns. [moon][:o)]

Nope.  He's pretty much always been a simpering ass clown.  His band has put out a couple of decent albums though.

Politically and socially, Bono is an ASS CLOWN EXTRORDINAIRE!!

I saw U2 in concert in '83 - EXCELLENT show.

I saw them again in '87 when that Irishman Bono put himself smackdab in the middle of LOCAL Arizona politics by publicly advocating the  impeachment of then Arizona Governor Ev Mecham while they toured here. Ever since Bono has been a total dumbsh!t in my book.

"Joshua Tree" was the last time their music was any good.

Bono=[puke]

Don't start planning any long, hand-holding sunset walks together until you repudiate the terrorism that you encouraged against the USA.



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Others may have forgotten, but I haven't.

LMAO!! Too funny

My mistake.  Please carry on.  Bono's a weasel.

If I step over the line somewhere, give me a shout and let me know. I'm a reasonable man as long as I'm being treated reasonably.

What about the fact that he is against guns but yet supports the efforts of the ERA and there tactics.