New interview w/ Bono from CNN

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Bono Speaks With CNN's Carol Lin

On Sunday night, Bono was interviewed by CNN correspondent Carol Lin live from his DATA rally in Philadelphia and launch of the new One Campaign. Below is the transcript of their conversation from CNN.com. A video link is also below.


LIN: You'd be pretty hard pressed to find a bigger rock star than Bono, but the lead singer of U-2 has a softer side. He is one of the leading voices in the global fight against AIDS and poverty. And this weekend, he took that fight to Philadelphia for the One Campaign, a new effort to rally Americans to the cause.

Bono is tonight's newsmaker. I talked to him earlier.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BONO, CO-FOUNDER, DATA: Politicians are not afraid of me. Rock stars and student activists, they're used to us and our placarding, but it's church folk and soccer moms that the politicians are nervous of.

Now politicians get really nervous when rock stars and student activists start hanging out with rich folk and soccer moms. That's when they start getting uncomfortable and realize that they're going to have to dig deeper. And by the way, there is a will to dig deeper in the United States Congress. I'm amazed across both sides of the aisle. People are waking up to the fact that, you know, there is a war against terror and it's an expensive war to fight, but the war against poverty is necessary in the fight against -- to win...

LIN: Right.

BONO: ...in the fight against terror.

We just -- we have to look at the hard facts that right now in the world, these are dangerous, nervous times. And people don't know what to make of the United States.

more at:
http://forum.interference.com/t91884.html

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AIDS (news - web sites) activists hold up banners calling U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) a puppet of U.S. drug companies, as Irish singer Bono (foreground) prepares to make a statement at a Senate Appropriations hearing on AIDS programs and research on Capitol Hill, in Washington May 18, 2004

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1. Love him!

He's one of my heroes!

[roguevalley]

2. I picked up on U2 in 1980 and they got me through hard times.

[aljones]

3. U2 is my favorite band of all time!!

Great Post!!

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