[caption id=”attachment_135113″ align=”aligncenter” width=”3000″] John Cusack arrives at the LA Premiere Of “Love & Mercy” at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Tuesday, June 2, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)
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Actor and outspoken liberal John Cusack bashed President Obama, calling him “worse than Bush” in a recent interview with The Daily Beast.
Those are strong words considering he once described the Bush administration as “depressing, corrupt, unlawful, and tragically absurd.”
Cusack was asked by the interviewer, Marlow Stern, to comment on the recent CNN poll that Bush had higher approval ratings than Obama. Cusack took the opportunity to bash the president over his handing the war on terror.
“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,” Cusack replied.
Cusack especially took issue with Obama’s expansion of drone strikes that have killed nearly 2,500 people, according to a February report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
“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,” he continued.
“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.”
