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Friday, February 03, 2006 @ 2:39 p.m.

"I'm here because I've got a messianic complex"

"If you're wondering what I’m doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I'm certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It's certainly not because I'm a rock star. Which leaves one possible explanation: I’m here because I've got a messianic complex. Yes, it's true. And for anyone who knows me, it's hardly a revelation. Well, I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural...something unseemly...about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert… but this is really weird, isn't it? You know, one of the things I love about this country is its separation of church and state. Although I have to say: in inviting me here, both church and state have been separated from something else completely: their mind. Mr. President, are you sure about this? It's very humbling and I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned — I'm Irish."

As if we needed another reason to love Bono, take the time to read the transcript of his speech given to the National Prayer Breakfast, in which he urges America to raise the amount given in the federal budget to the poor by one percent. Maybe he writes these speeches himself, or maybe he has someone ghost-writing them, but Bono remains one of the greatest orators of our pop-culture era. If you're skeptical, read it for yourself, and tell me you don't support him by the end. "History, like God, is watching what we do." Well said, Bono, well said.
posted by member Life of Turner
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