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We're...we're one. But we're, we're just not the same. In other words, we...we hurt each other. And we'd...I mean, I just...I think we'd do it again!
Now wait a minute. If the streets have no name, how do you know which way to go?
"Right. Starvin' folks in Africa. That's terrible. Now...where is that exactly?"
What do ya' think about doing a charity concert for my staff's legal defence fund?
"Am I bugging you? I don't want to bug you."
Hey you know I have a guitar back at the ranch, and do a mean "Home on the Range".
"Ah, ya know what, Bone-o, I'm doin' the best I know how. An' if that's not good 'nuff..."
Bono still hasn't found what he's looking for.
Bush: "We can talk Durfur anytime. Play the game first - 'You put your right foot in....'"
So, let me get this thing straight, the Pope says you can drink all the whiskey you want and you still get to go to Heaven? What if - heh heh - I want a quick roll in the hay with Condi, would I go to Hell for that?
"Lemme jes look under these cushions here... No, I still haven't found what I'm lookin for."
"'One love'? 'We've got to carry each other'? Yer jokin' right? I mean, com'on Mr. Bono, you can't be serious."
"Bono, an experienced and capable international statesman who moonlights as the leader of a rock band, instructs a willing student in the finer points of internation diplomacy and cooperation."
President Bush later noted how he impressed he was at the activist/rock-star's grasp of the English language saying "Yeh know that Bono spoke good American for a for a foreigner"
"Um, yea, I've heard of you guys...in fact, I think we named a spy plane after your band."
heh heh
Sonny, I thought you died in that skiiing accident some years ago?!
I have you on my Ipod. I like to listen to you while I am presidenting.
Christians have all the fun.
"Thanks to you, people all over the world can count to 4 in Spanish: Uno, dos, tres, catorce"
How can it be anything but:
BONO and BOZO
?
"Mr. Bono I noticed you like wearing those rose colored glasses...well, I gotta pair you just have to see."
You know, Harriet was a big U2 fan years ago. She was always telling me about the pro Bono work she did for legal aid.
During Katrina I had some guitar lessons; do you think we can jam together?
Bono studies the amazingly life-like wax model or President Bush, on display in the White House. The wax dummy will be on display in the White House until January 2009.
George Bush discusses Delay, Frist, Plame, Meiers and his opinion polls: I just read the news today. I can't close my eyes, and make it go away. How long? How long must I sing this song for?
Sorry it should have been
Bono studies the amazingly life-like wax model of President Bush, on display in the White House. The wax dummy will be on display in the White House until January 2009.
As Bono explains to President Bush about the growing pandemic of AIDS in Africa, Bush recalls that he �partied with some Africans once.�
President George W. Bush educates Bono on the significance of the Great Seal, explaining that "the eagle is the king of the birds."
"I like that 'War' record you guys did. Not the music, I just like the name."
Finally, after a lifelong search, Bono - Global Crusader for Somethingorother - discovers someone even more arrogantly deluded than himself.
"Good ta meetcha. You know, I've spoke with the tongue of angels, too!"
"So tell me ... you still have to deal with that crazy Cher, much?"
After engaging Bono in what he thought was a staring contest, Mr. Bush finally broke the silence, "Should we call it a day?"
Bush to Bono: Harriet an me were a fixin to clear some brush when we was down in Crawfurd, but we was, heh heh, so into the "war" cassette that was a playin in the Ford that we just sat there in the truck an' she wrote some really pertty prose for me. That's kinda like poetry ya know. Heh heh (eyes blinking wildly).
"Cheney will be with you in just a moment. Please have a seat."
Do you know "I got you, Babe?"
"What's yer sign, there, pal? You a Vertigo? Me, I'm a Unarius, myself."
GWB: "Hehehe. I thought I was going to meet with a chimp."
Bono: "Hey, I'm meeting a chimp."