FirstNationalBastard: I know I'd vote for him.

Anyone who can kill a child in Africa each time he claps his hands has some major superpowers. Can you think what would happen if he were against us?

Seconded.
That whole "save the planet" thing is just his guilt trip from burning those orphanages down..

I'm no Blairite, but ten years in office does require some political acumen, you know that right, subby?

Love Bono...

...as a leader... no thanks

/did I bug ya?, I didn't mean to bug ya...

AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

That is all

Well, he can't be worse than Bush was.

Its_not_a_meme: Well, he can't be worse than Bush was.



I think you underestimate him.

Tory Bliar. Please disappear.

he'll always be my #2 choice.

Seth'n'Spectrum: I'm no Blairite, but ten years in office does require some political acumen, you know that right, subby?

Spineless? Check

Forced to resign? check

i think I'll stand by my headline

"I knew he would work with George (W. Bush) well, and with none of the prissy disdain of most of his ilk."

Nope. Just the prissy.

Dododado: Its_not_a_meme: Well, he can't be worse than Bush was.



I think you underestimate him.

No, I stand by my original statement. Bush was a joke.

Bono has landfill potential too.

HappyHarryHardOn: Spineless? Check

Not really. He robustly stuck to his principals throughout and continues to defend them. His principals were frequently wrong, but that's an entirely different matter.

/joins Slaxl in the shower
//if it's good enough for William Hague...

Subby, effectively telling a million people on the streets of London in 2003 "fark off, we're invading Iraq" is a quite a lot of things, but certainly not spineless.

Also, aren't all former Prime Ministers forced to resign? Isn't that how they gain the title "former"?

GaryPDX: He'll lose against Obama. He's too white.

I thought the Irish were the Blacks of Europe.

HappyHarryHardOn:

Spineless? Check

Forced to resign? check

i think I'll stand by my headline

Talk hard.

He's really #2.

Bono has the same grasp of world issues as any above-average university economics or politics student; maybe even less. He just has a better social network, because politicians are mostly dorks* and want to improve their image by hanging with aging rock stars who were cool a decade or two ago, when said politicians still paid attention to pop culture.

Bono's managed to successfully leverage his aging-rock-star celebrity into politician access, and he's used his fame to try to publicly guilt trip them into making world conditions a little better. I have to give him props for that, but it doesn't mean he has the skill set to lead anyone anywhere. He's just smarter and more successful than Bob Geldof.

/* Dork exception: Barack Obama, whose cool points would be diminished by hanging with Bono
//Nicolas Sarkozy actually married his aging music star aquaintance.

2CountyFairs: Also, aren't all former Prime Ministers forced to resign? Isn't that how they gain the title "former"?

Blair resigned while still in office, his party didn't lose power in an election while he was their leader.

kenba2099: he'll always be my #2 choice.

I c whut u did thar.

Seth'n'Spectrum: I'm no Blairite, but ten years in office does require some political acumen, you know that right, subby?

He also:-

1) Got the economy at just the right point in the cycle (after it had bottomed out).
2) Was facing a party who had been in power for 18 years who then imploded.

He's hugely charismatic as a leader, but behind that, there's very little going on. Tony Blair is about nothing but Tony Blair. Look how quickly he quit as an MP after quitting as Prime Minister. No-one else has done that. They at least served out the end of their term.

Look at all the damage his book is causing to his party, just to spice it up and sell a few more copies.

Iraq was about nothing but making Blair into an international statesman. A real prime minister would have either made the case for attacking Saddam Hussein based on the facts, or confronted the Americans. He took the coward's way and just spun some bullshiat about WMDs.

Saw U2 perform in Helsinki a couple weeks ago. Walked out of the stadium, and my wife said "I never thought Bono was handsome, but he has more charisma on stage than any man I've ever seen."

Hope I'm No. 2.

Why not, politics runs in the family.

Bono didn't SET the record... He IS the record.

bobbette: Bono has the same grasp of world issues as any above-average university economics or politics student; maybe even less.

Majority of the educated people in this world are C+ students.

I'm the Foot Farking Master:
"Bono didn't SET the record... He IS the record."

That record is skipping.

The only ability he has to lead is his proven track record of being able to lead deaf sheep.