John Cusack takes on John McCain in political ad
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LOS ANGELES — Pop quiz: Why has John Cusack jumped into the political arena with a video saying John McCain is a clone of President George W. Bush who would continue policies the actor says benefit war profiteers?

"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 video, which went out to members of the liberal political activist group MoveOn.org on Wednesday, will begin airing on television Thursday. In it, 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."

The cost to air the ads is $45,000. They will appear nationally on the Bravo cable channel and in Washington, D.C., on CNN, MSNBC and Comedy Central.

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 Worldwide, Bechtel Corp. and others that hold war-related contracts worth millions of dollars.

"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 such video for MoveOn.org.

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interesting

Maybe if we stood all the politicians in front of the tornado and they blew INTO it

McCain is a continuation of the hell we have experienced with Bush the last 8 years. Hopefully enough people are paying attention to his agenda because he wants to continue the sickness of Bush.

goverment is what ya get when your to scared to represent yerself

hey i got a great idea.... we could make my place the new white house and fire all the housekeepers and leave the house and senate in washington to go to.............lection

they'd never know what hit em

Bush and McCain are not clones. That is nothing more than the same, tired, rhetoric from the liberal agenda. McCain had the most liberal record for conservatives in the senate.

Obama is a Muslim!! See, I can make things up, too. Let's not have facts stand in the way.

It is very interesting, I wouldn't mind saying that most people that are upset and pissed off by the way this country is going MCcain won't be making one step into the white house in 2009.

lol, very nice. Point made as well as it could be, to call them clones is to show yourself to be ignorant and gullible into believing anything anyone else tells you to believe.

The only reason why people or more then half a million or more americans say that MCcain is another Bush is because MCcain is backing the very same Bush plan, and who want's to have another two or four years of another Bush a like, even if he say's he isn't.

It's the truth, just open your eyes and see it.

I mean it's very clear who will be the next President that is if a load of more people just look really hard and want the change that is really need in american today and tomorrow etc.

All I'm saying is we need a change not only in the next president but as in a new one, not a R but a D president.

But that's just how I feel on this very issue.

i'm a engineer in the oil field.... so i'm gonna have to go with Mccain


a muslum will def. F*UCK things up lol

Please, someone from Hollywood, we are to consider them credible?

I have no use for Hollywood, actors, the like. I cannot wait for Susan Sarandon to move as she has promised if Senator McCain is elected President, which he will. Streisand is still here, she was to move if President Bush got re-elected. Can you follow my point? They are total non-intellects who spout off falsehoods and idiotic rhetoric.

Lindyy

Hi MirrorMirror

Lindyy

Very well put StarSailor, as usual.

Lindyy

My concern is John McCains age as well as his personal beliefs. IF(emphasize that word greatly)inaugurated in 2009 at age 72 years and 144 days. His body was destroyed during the Vietnam campaign, and he has been diagnosed with cancer (melanoma twice). He replaced Senator Barry Goldwater in 1987, thats 21 years as A CARREER POLITICIAN, and his ideas on imagration are archaiac (reminisiant to me on a man i studied in my US history class at Oregon State University, by the name of Lester Maddox)

If you look at history, take the beloved (if ure a right wing fundaMENTALIST that is) Ronald Reagan, he was 1st elected President in 1980 at the age of 69y 11m 14d and then again in 1984 at 73 years and 350 days old. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1994 at the age of 83 and died at the age of 93 om Jan of 2004. Alzheimers disease doesnt happen over night its a illness that can take upwards of 20 years to come full cirlce. So in theory, Ron Reagan had the disease(and symptoms, how else could u explain Iran-Contra and Voodoo economics?) DURING his second term! Alzheimers cause Neurons
and synapses in the cerebral cortex to DIE causing a usually massive form of dementia and eventually DEATH

We need to enfuse some energy into this couch potato/TV dinner society and put and end to this Fundimental crap and there is no way in hell we can do that with a 72 year old POW from the Vietnam War who health is a big Question mark!! Im not totally convinced on Barrak either, and probably never will be till he learns not to speak in parables all the damn time!

Our economy is in shambles and this country has a massive debt( u can thank the "great communticator" 4 that 1), we have an immagration problem and we have a massive HEALTH CARE CRISIS,
and we need someone who can be an agent 4 change because obviously the "OLD SCHOOL" way didnt do a damn thing,

We need someone in the mold of a Robert Kennedy not a Ronnie Reagan if we really want to c this country be all it can really be. We missed our first chance

Im glad you brought the immigration issue up Brandon.

Here is what Obama says about it,

The American people are a welcoming and generous people. But those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws.
To begin with, the agencies charged with border security would receive new technology, new facilities, and more people to stop, process, and deport illegal immigrants.
But while security might start at our borders, it doesn't end there. Millions of undocumented immigrants live and work here without our knowing their identity or their background. We need to strike a workable bargain with them. They have to acknowledge that breaking our immigration laws was wrong. They must pay a penalty, and abide by all of our laws going forward. They must earn the right to stay over a 6-year period, and then they must wait another 5 years as legal permanent residents before they become citizens.
http://obama.senate.gov/speech/060403-floor_statement_3/

Like Obama, I supported this bill when it was put for a vote. Unfortunately it failed to gain enough support, and many illegal immigrants protested against it! I guess they just want amnesty. I call that shake-n-bake citizenship, and will never support it!

I like John Cusack, and his movies and all, but just because HE says HE believes that the war was started for profits and all doesn't mean I do. Look, if you think McCain is a clone of Bush, then you really need to look at the man's history to see he is not. Hell, Bush had a hard time endorsing McCain, but he had no choice because McCain won the nom. And while John might not have my full support either, he has a ton more from me than Obama does. I don't care for Obama. Think he is nothing more than some hot shot who can take a simple message of "change" and use it to "get people excited", all the while he never says anything coherent. He just says change.....change for a better tomorrow....or that he IS this "great uniter". Look, basically, the guy fancies himself to being some type of "God like person", and his arrogance has turned me to voting for McCain.