"One is charismatic, plays to packed stadiums and wants to change the world. The other is Bono. Now a group of U2 fans, struck by the parallels between Barack Obama and the Irish rock star, have become one of the U.S. Democratic presidential nominee's most enthusiastic band of supporters.
http://tinyurl.com/4w79d4 U2 fans for Obama, a collection of 103 U2 devotees, has raised almost $18,000 (EU12,200) for the presidential hopeful's campaign and organised more than 600 events to date. The group, whose website and blog are linked to the presidential candidate's official homepage, believe that "since Bono can't run for U.S. president, Obama is the next best thing". Their blog declares that members "see in Obama a progressive Christian who embodies the ideas and sentiments...so compelling in U2's music." The politician is already an avowed fan of the band, recently telling Rolling Stone magazine that U2 is on his iPod playlist. Bono attended the Democratic convention in Denver last week where he heard two U2 tracks, "City of Blinding Lights" and "Beautiful Day," bookend Obama's acceptance speech early on Friday. "Beautiful Day" was also the musical backdrop a night earlier when Obama introduced Senator Joe Biden, his nominee for vice-president, to the Denver crowd. The U2 fans now rank as the 10th most active group on Obama's collection of small local fundraisers, modelled on a social networking site. Obama's website, my.barack obama.com, was developed by Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook. It has more than 1m users and hundreds of diverse social networking groups, including Women for Obama, Veterans for Obama and Environmentalists for Obama." On Oct 9, 2008, at 10:43 AM, arcman210 wrote: > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "fancypaaantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Umm... Bono is just an entertainer and look what he has done by > > being an entertainer (The ONE campaign). I think Jack has also > > listed a number of musicians who have inspired change. > > > > Bono never bashed a politician in his concerts. He promotes good > things and is a terrific world activist... Bono even met with Bush at > the White House a few years ago! And I doubt Bono would have voted for > Bush or supported his candidacy. Bono did it because it was the way to > get something done for a real cause, and not to make a statement and > sell an album. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
