LOS ANGELES, June 11, 2008
John Cusack Speaks Out Against McCain
The Obama Supporter's 30-Second Videos Featured On MoveOn.org Will Be Aired On TV
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John Cusack In '1408'
Actor John Cusack tells Russ Mitchell about his new movie "1408," a supernatural thriller based on a short story by horror writer Stephen King.
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John Cusack arrives at the premiere of "Grace is Gone" in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Wednesday, Nov. 28 , 2007. (AP Photo)
"I know my opinion doesn't matter more than anyone else's and I just make films," he told The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednesday. "But I do feel you have to speak out, and that's what I'm doing."
The 30-second videos, which went out to members of the liberal political activist group MoveOn.org on Wednesday, will begin airing as television ads Thursday. In one, Cusack offers a "pop quiz" to voters, asking them among other things: "Who supports keeping our troops in harm's way in Iraq but not the bipartisan G.I. bill of rights to support them when they return home?"
McCain and Bush both do, Cusack says, adding, "Bet you can't tell them apart."Photos: Political Action
In the other, he points out that Charlie Black, a key campaign adviser to presumptive Republican presidential nominee McCain, has been a lobbyist for Blackwater Worldwide, the largest private security contractor in Iraq.
In his latest film, the war satire "War Inc.," Cusack makes no secret that he believes the Iraq war was created to profit private businesses like Blackwater and Bechtel Corp., which hold war-related contracts.
"I'm not going to pretend this thing in Iraq was some kind of free market utopia to spread the gospel of democracy through the Middle East," he told the AP from London, where he's at work on another project.
Cusack says he supports Democrat Barack Obama.
Although he has made such films as "War Inc." and last year's "Grace is Gone," in which he plays the husband of a soldier killed in Iraq, Cusack notes this has been his first high-profile foray into partisan politics.
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See all 66 CommentsI''m voting for McCain !!! At least he LOVES this country and the people in it. Obama and his wife love only what they can take from it and hate it because they feel they deserve SOOOO much MORE !!!
Posted by jeannec3 at 06:57 PM : Jun 11, 2008
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My response:
1. I don''t know exactly what John Cusacks'' educational background is, but I don''t think he''s an idiot!
2. You imply Barack Obama & wife don''t love America but only what they can take from it?! I''ve heard many make the same claim about McCain & wife! And based on economic worth, it appears that claim applies to the latter and NOT the former! I believe both candidates & wives love America! Both sets have done well here.
3. I agree with you when it comes to attitude. But, I think both candidates demonstrate smugness from time to time!
Finally, Cusack has the right to state what he thinks like you or me! And he''s not really going to influence you or me, either! Is he?! :)
I''m sure this Cusack can stick up for himself if he reads what I had to say.
But I see NO WHERE in my comment that I stated YOUR name or put YOU down. So I don''t feel you needed to include me in your comment. But sense you have......I guess your name states the size of your brain.
The only difference between Bush and McCain is McCain knows how to fight a war.
...oh and, how to complete a sentence
Aw don''t blame me for the size and texture of your brain. Your the one that picked that login name. It suits you and your thoughts !
Ohhhhhhh !!!! I soooooooooo care about what this idiot has to say !! Maybe he should go out and get a REAL job instead of making money off of pretending to be something your not ( actor ? ) !!! It''''s all the people around you that makes you the actor ( ? ) you THINK you are !!!
I''''m voting for McCain !!! At least he LOVES this country and the people in it. Obama and his wife love only what they can take from it and hate it because they feel they deserve SOOOO much MORE !!!
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Where do they fabricate morons like the above poster? I hope they are using organic materials, but due to the evident brain damage, I have to assume some slightly dangerous chemicals were involved in creating this rethug.
Keep steaming ahead John Cusack -- thank you for speaking out against all of these criminal thugs in the bush administration. Thank you for educating Americans that the war is being fought by the private sector for immense profit. Thank you.
I wonder how much dough George Bush made.
%u2026as long as Clinton doesn%u2019t get picked for Vice President. She will continue the war. A heart beat away is way too close (wink).
I%u2019m going to go over to ABC News (a.k.a. the real Clinton campaign headquarters) and rattle sabers. Then, to CNN. I don%u2019t even bother with F-U-X- News. Fair and balanced my A-S-S. Nothing but T&A over there (ditzes). Some nice cleavage though.
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Posted by standlee5 at 10:05 PM : Jun 11, 2008
You don''t know much do you sparky?? Anyone who can come from the streets of the South Side of Chicago to become what Obama is can ONLY be described as a HERO to MILLIONS of American''s. Let''s try to stop with this trash!! SIEG HEIL BUSH!!
You know,if you could get the rich nuts,to donate what they did for campaigns,...we could have built schools,roads,....invested into new energy,etc...
But no,...it''s back to "My guy,...is better than your guy"
Neither one is gonna do anything for people you know.
Posted by galvestontex
We have as much chance of knowing the answer to this, as we do to knowing how the spent his time in the reserves (or not), during the Vietnam war.
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Posted by standlee5 at 10:05 PM : Jun 11, 2008
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In whose book? Certainly not the Republican party''s. How short everyone''s memory is. Flash back to 2000. At that time, the Republican party stated that John McCain was a traitor to his country and his fellow prisoners in Viet Nam, that he fathered an out of wedlock black baby, that his wife was a nut, that is was more liberal than Hillary.
Most Americans don''t pay much attention when a Republican calls someone a hero. It is the party of liars and hypocrites and crooks.
I agree everyone has a right to their own opinions and the right to express them. I will not support obama, but i supoort anyones right to their beliefs. I gave up trusting the news media while serving in Vietnam. Never saw a reporter outside a bar in Saigon.
stick to the issues that McCain is just as poor a candidate as Obama. Do not insult my intellegence by distractions such as personal attack(that is so TN GOP style). If you calls someone an idiot you invited the same comment to yorself. If millions of American citizens were like you we are running out of hope. Ron Paul and Huckbee are real people who should have won the nomination not that POS McCain. The same McCain who is more liberal than Hillary and now acting all Bush-like just to fit in with the big boys. That flip-flop alone warrants my disrespect. Like I said neither candidate is any good this election year so we probably have to go again with the lesser evil.
You don''''t know much do you sparky?? Anyone who can come from the streets of the South Side of Chicago to become what Obama is can ONLY be described as a HERO to MILLIONS of American''''s. Let''''s try to stop with this trash!! SIEG HEIL BUSH!!
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You can write SIEG HEIL BUSH to a president but we can''t say that OSAMA BEN BAMA is not a HERO? GAWD, you appear to have the makings of a political TURTUFFE.
McCain was a hero. THEN. Now he''s PTSD, maybe not all together right and running for president. How sweet. I am voting for someone other than the two remaining. What pi$$ p00r choices we have.
You and i agree to disagree, but obama did not come up on the south side of Chicago, he was raised in Hawaii by his white grandmother after his crack *** mother abandoned him.
I agree obama will get us out of the war by siding with the terrorists. Out of the frying pan into the fire. I gave up on both parties. I will now vote for Ron Paul. It may be futile but at least i won''t be supporting McCain or obama.
First off, EVERY time a liberal does anything that is not negative (notice I didn''t say good), it''s in the press, why? Because the media is 99% liberal. DUH!
I find it amazing in this day and age that anyone believes, honestly, that the president has as much power as people think. I swear it cracks me up how much credit you guys give to Bush. You blame just about everything on him, when, in truth, he could possibly have affected the country as much as all the whiney liberals say he did.
If it were true that (partial list):
He rigged the whole war.
He caused high gas prices.
He caused a recession.
He caused the health care issues.
He caused the loss of the dollar value.
It would make him the most powerful president in history!
Wake up folks! The president is now, and always will be, a figure head with an ink pen.
No disrespect intended to the office, but, the bureaucrats runs the country now. For heavens sake, your vote doesn''t even really count. Do you really think that the person you vote for can change things?! If so, open your eyes, you''re dreaming.
dantimdad
''A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.''
''From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.''
Obama wants to be our President and control our government. Pay close
attention to the last comment!! Below are a few lines from Obama''s
books "
his words:
From Dreams of My Father: "I ceased to advertise my mother''s race at
the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was
ingratiating myself to whites."
From Dreams of My Father : "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive
sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race."
From Dreams of My Father: "There was something about him that made me
wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."
From Dreams of My Father: ; "It remained necessary to prove which side
you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and
name names."
From Dreams of My Father: "I never emulate white men and brown men
whose fates didn''t speak to my own. It was into my father''s image, the
black man, son of Africa , that I''d packed all the attributes I sought
in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."
From Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the
political winds shift in an ugly direction."
I agree and i am voting for Ron Paul. It may be hopeless but is better than voting for obama or McCain.I didn''t think the American public was dumb enough to fall for obama''s spiel, but they proved me wrong.
''''A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.''''
''''From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.''''
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Posted by uncletrusty at 08:51 AM : Jun 12, 2008
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SO TRUE AS WE HAVE HIT A DICTATORSHIP WITH HERR BUSH AT THE HELM...
Give me a break, Cusack is nothing more than your typical left wing pinko being funded by Hungarian George Soros.
Problem being, the hyphen his kind of Hungarian George worshippers so proudly don is their "Un-" hyphen.
Posted by galvestontex
We have as much chance of knowing the answer to this, as we do to knowing how the spent his time in the reserves (or not), during the Vietnam war.
Posted by cdfoxtrot
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Or, even how much Chinese, Singapor, North Korean, and "pardons for cash" money Bill Clinton has been able to launder out of his numbered bank accounts in the Grand Caymens through his double wide cathouse on stilts (Presidential library) on the bank of the Arkansas river????
I know that Cusack is famous and in a position to garner a light to speak for so many whose speeches are the same. It is not wrong. It''s free-speech, but denied by to American''s by the talk-head radio commentators who label anyone who speaks against the Big Machine as traitors.
Cusack speaks for so many of the soldiers who are banned from speaking openly, honestly and freely to the media about what they really experience. Other soldiers may see things from a different perspective; they have no problems speaking openly.
If it takes an actor with access to reach millions to speak for those who are silenced%u2026despite its angle; is it no longer an American Right? Has the hard right pounded the lid to liberties, until the lid is so tightly closed that more freedoms could be attained if we were communist, dictated over, or other wise led? We have someone without any experience, conscience or guilt, in the White House now. How more serious could thing be with President Obama, led by a democratic government be in correcting the wrongs bestowed by this nation and once more becoming a leader other countries choose to follow?
"McCain doesn''t support the troops having health or educatiton benefits"
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Element51, don''t let the facts get in the way of a good story. McCain does support health care and education benefits for the troops -- just not the version that was proposed by Webb.
My mistake -- the post was made by mtngurl8. My apologies.
those were the days.......
Somebody''s been bathing in the cool aid. I have medical insurance through my employer. I pay 400 dollars a month and a co-pay. We get a pretty good deal all around because we can negotiate on the strength of numbers. Prescriptions cost as low as $1.18.
So why is it when you propose this same insurance plan negotiated by our government everyone screams and howls like it''s bad?
The biggest protection on the insurance is a 2500 maximum out of pocket. If your kid gets cancer the most you pay is 2500.
Why do you people think you will never be caught without insurance so you don''t want everyone to have it? It''s a plan to provide insurance, not government doctors. You folks are letting the rich fat cats lead you around by the nose.
What if tthe rest of us are right and obama turns out to be the racist/terrorist we believe he is. Do you not think that would be the final element to destroying our country ? I hope you are right about obama. Our future depends on it if he is elected.
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