COBL and the DNC

[skelter]

We're not talking about the DNC, we're talking about President Obama's eventual celebration bash in January. I never expected U2 to be there tonight.

They were at President Obama's inauguration back in 2009, though. Unless something's drastically changed, I'm betting some/all of them are still fans of Obama, which makes an appearance in January 2013 at the White House somewhat likely.

nope, i mean yallz are optimistic that Obama would get a second term! I would vote Obama if I were a citizen, but from what I see it's looking like a close fight with some ex-Obama'08 supporters jaded with him and all.

If Romney wins (I hope not), do you think U2 will play the inauguration? I think not. It wwould be cool if U2 had some new material to preview if they played at Obama's inauguration 2013 (assuming he wins), but in a big stately event like this, they'd probably stick with the classics/big guns.

[Droo]

I think of U2 were to play at Romney's inauguration, they'd have to go in with full 90's-era irony. Perhaps with a Mirrorball Man performance of Desire.

[tigerfan41]

Not unless Romney paid them a bunch of money to play it. Even then, I find it highly unlikely they would play Romney's inauguration, simply because they have no ties to him (that I know of) and likely he's not as big of a supporter of aiding Africa/other countries. If he were, maybe because Bono's all about the politicians who support/aid his work in Africa (just look at Bono's relationship with former president Bush).

Now if Huckabee were to be elected, I could see Bono maybe showing up at the bash because they seem to be chummy and Hucks repeatedly dropped Bono's name at the RNC last week.

Regarding Obama's re-election hopes, Romney, imo, isn't a strong enough candidate to defeat Obama. Unless America really is too dumb to fact check and learn more about what both candidates bring to the table, I highly doubt Romney will be elected. He's too unlikeable (where are those tax returns?!?), flip flops too much, lies too much and has yet to provide a solid plan for how he'd turn things around.

[Thunder Peel]

Does anyone know how much Obama has helped with the ONE Campaign and other causes that Bono supports? Bush was very involved and provided a lot of aid and support to those causes. People are always praising Obama but he's done little to help Africa or any other nation, not to mention ours hasn't improved since he took office.

The only part of his speech I liked was the use of COBL. ^_^

[tigerfan41]

Does anyone know how much Obama has helped with the ONE Campaign and other causes that Bono supports? Bush was very involved and provided a lot of aid and support to those causes. People are always praising Obama but he's done little to help Africa or any other nation, not to mention ours hasn't improved since he took office.

The only part of his speech I liked was the use of COBL. ^_^

I won't get into a political debate regarding that last part of your last sentence, but I will say it's important to look at the overall picture for the U.S. for the last 10 years. Obama walked into a huge mess created by Bush (hello war in Iraq) and a horrible economy already in a recession. He hasn't cleaned things up entirely, but I highly doubt any other politician would have been able to do a better job than Obama has. I think you give him another 4 years and things will be even better, if not entirely turned around for the better.

Regarding ONE, I looked into this. Here's what I found:

http://one.org/c/us/pressrelease/4164/
http://one.org/c/us/pressrelease/4363/

And there's probably more that can be found with additional research. In a nutshell, Obama has pledged to help with reaching the beginning of AIDS in 2015 (something Bono's talked about a lot), has pledged additional help for poverty stricken countries and has pledged help for ending extreme poverty/hunger. Has he done more than Bush? No. That's the one thing I'll always respect about Bush is the aid he gave to other countries. However, Obama's time in office was much different than Bush's, and I'm betting in a better economy, Obama would have pledged more support than he did for ONE's causes.

[Domenico of Lovetown]

It was a great intro.  Far better than Mike Dukakis using Where The Streets Have No Name.