By: Laura Meyers
In an interview with The Daily Beast, actor John Cusack said that President Obama has been worse than former president George W. Bush.
“I’m not sure if you heard the news today, but CNN conducted a poll concluding that George W. Bush’s approval rating is now higher than President Obama’s.
Well, Obama has certainly extended and hardened the cement on a lot of Bush’s post-9/11 Terror, Inc. policies, so he’s very similar to Bush in every way that way. His domestic policy is a bit different, but when you talk about drones, the American Empire, the NSA, civil liberties, attacks on journalism and whistleblowers, he’s as bad or worse than Bush. He hasn’t started as many wars, but he’s extended the ones we had, and I don’t even think Dick Cheney or Richard Nixon would say the president has the right to unilaterally decide whom he can kill around the world. On Tuesdays, the president can just decide whom he wants to kill, and you know, since 9/11 there are magic words like ‘terror,’ and if you use magic words, you can justify any power grab you want.”
In a 2008 interview with Vanity Fair, when asked who his heroes in real life are, Cusack said, “Let’s go with Jesus. Not the gay-hating, war-making, political tool of the right, but the outcast, subversive.“
During 2010, Cusack raged on Twitter when he posted,“I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS.”
But, he doesn’t blindly follow party alignment either. In 2012 he wrote a piece on Obama, asking, “Is the President just another Ivy League A–hole shredding civil liberties and due process and sending people to die in some s–thole for purely political reasons?”
Little weird. Kinda cool. We can be friends, Cusack.
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