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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: TomSea on February 19, 2017, 11:50:48 pm
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Bono Praises Pence For Work on AIDS Relief
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U2 frontman Bono and Vice President Mike Pench at the Munich Security Conference (ABC News Twitter)
By Cathy Burke | Sunday, 19 Feb 2017 01:12 PM
U2 frontman and AIDS activist Bono – a critic of President Donald Trump in the past – was full of praise for the president's No. 2, telling Vice President Mike Pence "we really appreciate" his past support for AIDS relief.
In a meeting Saturday with Pence at the Munich Security Conference, Bono's remarks concerned the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a global initiative that was touted by Pence when he was a congressman on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and helped in passing an emergency plan for international AIDS relief, ABC News reported.
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Bono has always been an unusual figure. Although in terms of his social and political commitments, he's pretty much what you'd expect a celebrity rocker to be, unlike the vast majority of them, he actually studies matters before speaking, understands economics (probably as a result of studying) and has a genuine commitment to what works, even when that means making common cause with those of us on the right.
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Wife's a stewardess. She met him one flight. He sang for her and her colleagues.
Always had a soft spot for him since.