Sunday, February 19, 2006
A celebrity gives credit to America
U2's Bono lavishes praise on President Bush and American generosity to the poor...
I wonder if this story got wide circulation in the old media:
"The rocker began, with good humour, expressing the oddity of his appearance at the prayer breakfast. 'You know, one of the things I love about this country is its separation of church and state. Although I have to say: in inviting me here, both church and state have been separated from something else completely: their mind.'"
"Before continuing he added, 'Mr. President, are you sure about this?'"
"In fact, you have doubled aid to Africa. You have tripled funding for global health. Mr. President, your emergency plan for AIDS relief and support for the Global Fund-you and Congress-have put 700,000 people onto life-saving anti-retroviral drugs and provided 8 million bed nets to protect children from malaria."
