This Rolling Stone interview with U2’s Bono is actually quite interesting and thoughful. Despite the questioner pushing an obvious agenda. Winds up like this:
The next presidential election will be a real moment for America. Talk about the battle of ideas – I mean, this is it. You will get the country you deserve. You have to ask hard questions of who will be your leader, because we fans of America – annoying fans, maybe, but real fans – have a lot at stake. Even those who are not fans – everybody who values freedom, progressive thinking, innovation, has a stake in America. The country you may own. But not the idea.
Actually, I heard a great one. I was wandering through France, and I ended up in this vineyard. They asked me to sign the visitors’ book – it was a very posh wine: Petrus – they said, “Do you want to see the other people who have signed here?” I said, “Sure. Show me the first book.” Thomas Jefferson. That makes me laugh so much. Here’s this guy dreaming up an idea called America, drinking some fancy wine. My kind of guy.
Exactly. Dedicated to a proposition.
