Angelina's version of Bono's song, "One"

Angelina Jolie Takes Out Ad for Darfur Aid

Crusading actress Angelina Jolie plans to take out a large advertisement in USA Today next week, urging an end to the violence in Darfur, Sudan.The Tomb Raider star and United Nations Goodwill ambassador is preparing for the upcoming birth of her baby with Brad Pitt, but felt compelled to draw attention to the plight of people in Darfur.

Jolie tells People magazine, "I chose to take out this ad because when Congress returns from recess, they have the chance to fully fund peacekeepers in Darfur. "The situation in Darfur has been going on far too long. It's only getting worse. "Reports are pouring in about mass atrocities including children getting raped and killed. "If people are aware of the facts, I believe many will be driven to action."

The Mr. and Mrs. Smith star, who noted in the ad, "I'm an actress, and certainly no foreign policy expert," has visited the region twice--once in October 2004 and again in June 2005.
source: Hollywood.com

I like Angelina Jolie. I really do.

She’s beautiful, sexy, rich, and yet far from perfect. She tries to do good and has sincere intentions. She’s also, in my opinion, a bit koo koo. But that’s why women like Jennifer Maniston hate her. Angelina didn’t need surgery to get that face and she doesn’t need to breathe yoga and eat gym to maintain her body. How can any self-respecting L.A. girl who has her plastic surgeon in her speed dial not hate Angelina?

My one beef with the earth goddess Jolie is her way of trying to save the world—it just doesn’t convince me as efficient or intelligent. She’s an amazing woman, but doesn’t seem very smart.

When Angelina Jolie spoke in the UN Economic Conference in Switzerland a few months ago, she sounded simple, or simple in the category of a highschool debater compared to a masteral student defending his thesis. This extraordinarily beautiful woman looked ordinary because her words and the information she was sharing didn't strike me as critical information that would deserved space in a UN forum. She began to look simple to me. Her glaring American accent in a room of multi-lingual people did not help either. Even Bill Gates spoke another language (programming). I know a British accent doesn’t increase you I.Q. by 50% just because you can speak English from the dictionary, but listening to colloquial American accent (specifically L.A.) really affects one’s opnion on a person's analytical skills (thanks to Hollywood starlets for forever branding Los Angelinos). Average American English uses so many slangs and word mutation (Brilliant vs. cool; like vs. therefore) that it sounds inarticulate. But regardless of her accent, she just did not share useful information that is not quickly accessible through google. If she’s serious about being a credible voice in foreign policy agenda, then she should quit movies for a while and concentrate on educating herself more.

If you didn’t know she was Angelina, you wouldn’t understand why she was invited in the forum in the first place. I can read what she spoke about just by clicking on CNN.com.

I like Angie, but I think she shouldn’t be talking too much about foreign policy and simply just concentrate on letting her action speak for itself.

She’s no Bono. Bono is a damn intelligent person regardless of being a rock icon with all the preconceptions that goes along with the title. He’s well read, well informed, and analytical enough to impress even Bill Gates who doesn’t seem to have the inclination to associate with people who don’t fall within any of the ff category: his income bracket, visionary predisposition, or I.Q. level.

Yeah, I love Bono! He’s talented and intelligent and a strategist—what’s not to love?

Angie, you’re a good person, but don’t try to hard. It looks painful.