Political Cortex: John Cusak on Bush

John Cusak on Bush - Just ... Wow!

By SusanG
11/15/2005 10:04:35 AM EST

I stumbled across a commentary by actor John Cusak over at the Huffington Post that just left me speechless, it's so good. It opens with this:

Murder is a crime. Uunless it is done...by a poooollliiicceeeman. Or an ariissssstoocrat -- Joe Strummer
Bush 2. How depressing, corrupt, unlawful and tragically absurd the administration's world view actually is...how low the moral bar has been lowered...and (though I know I'm capable of intellectually lazy notions of collective guilt) how complicit our silence as citizens is...Nixon, a true fiend, looks like a paragon of virtue next to the criminally incompetent robber barons now raiding the present and future.

And it goes on from there to cover a wide variety of cultural and political issues. The title says it all, or tries to: "On Bush, the Dems, Jon Stewart, Hunter Thompson, Bill Moyers, and King (not Don)."

Go. Read. Now. Here.

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John Cusak on Bush - Just ... Wow! | 7 comments (7 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

My wife already loves Cusak (none / 0)

Now I'll have to fight to keep her from packing up her luggage and going after him.

I wonder what Diane Lane's political leanings are? Hmmm.

by Devilstower on 11/15/2005 03:12:22 PM EST

Agreed... (none / 0)

Cusack continues to rock.

Computer, end program. Computer? Computer?

by kredwyn on 11/15/2005 04:57:53 PM EST

He certainly makes his point (none / 0)

I, too was speechless for a minute. The Bill Moyer article was excellent, on its own.

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by scoophound on 11/15/2005 05:22:33 PM EST

: I was speechless ... (none / 0)

because I've never thought of him as a writer, much less a political writer, and to have someone articulate so well what I've felt and what I've believed -- and have him known in a completely different context -- well, it just blew me away.
by SusanG on 11/15/2005 05:43:18 PM EST

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