LaRouche Announces New
Presidential Campaign For 2004
12-29-00
the Democratic Party Presidential nomination, announced that he will run for
the Democratic party nomination for President in 2004, and released the
following statement today: � "I herewith set my guidon at the top of the
hill; those supporters of the Democratic Party, and others, who recognize the
need to return to that quality of leadership out of a great financial crisis
which President Franklin Roosevelt represents, must have a rallying-point
around which to transform the efforts into an effective, mission-oriented
mobilization, a mobilization to save this republic from what appears,
presently, to be our assured ruin. � "Although the outgoing President Bill
Clinton will be, still, the leading institutional figure around which the
Democratic Party will continue to be rallied as a party, that is not
sufficient. The world is gripped by a great moral crisis, which is also a
great economic crisis. The great need, is to return this nation, from the
past thirty-five years direction in policy-making, by which the nation has
ruled and ruined itself, to those successful principles of policy-shaping by
means of which the nation survived the great crises of 1933-1945. The fate of
this nation depends upon our ability to choose, now, a kind of leadership
qualified to lead our republic out of the great catastrophe which thirty-five
years of national folly have dumped upon us now. � "Look at the spectacle of
confusion raging throughout the Democratic Party today. I am reminded of a
once-famous
play by a Sicilian author, `Six Characters In Search of An Author,' an
hysterical search for a consensus, which is reminiscent of panicked
cockroaches in a New York City apartment's kitchen, or of hungry prostitutes
after a nuclear holocaust, each and all competing for the last surviving
prospective customer. Typical is the virtual application for Republican Party
membership, as might have been expected, as submitted on a recent CNN
television broadcast by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. In short, the images of the
Party's reaction to the Supreme Court decision, are each only more disgusting
than the next. � "The immediate, urgent practical importance of presenting my
candidacy now, is not the November 2004 vote; the issue is whether this
nation reaches November 2004 intact. Someone, a person actually qualified for
this role, must place the guidon on the top of the hill, to rally the forces
into order of battle, around urgent, fundamental changes in economic policy,
for the days and months immediately ahead. At the moment, I am the only
living person both situated and qualified to supply that quality of
leadership. � "The follies of the Gore candidacy, including the follies of
those who relied upon that candidacy, are not clarified by the results
obtained. The Democratic Party's campaign for the year 2000
election-campaign, was a terrible mistake, a terrible error of substituting
unprincipled political opportunism, in place of judgments based upon honest
principle. To resume its proper role, the Party need not resort to public mea
culpas; it will be sufficient to signal the turn, by doing the right thing,
for a change. � "This means a return to the principles set forth in the 1776
Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the 1789 Federal
Constitution. This means, once again, a repudiation of the legacy of Theodore
Roosevelt, of Ku Klux Klan enthusiast Woodrow Wilson, of Coolidge, and of
Nixon and Carter, too. It means to do what is equivalent, for today, to what
Franklin Roosevelt did in his campaign of 1932. Our nation's survival, and
also that of your family, depends upon making that kind of change, now. � "I
take my stand. We shall sort out the succession in the leadership as the
fight develops over the weeks and months to come." _____ � � EIR - Executive
Intelligence Review PO Box 17390 Washington DC 20041 www.larouchepub.com �
Seminar invitation � On Wednesday, Jan. 3, at 1 p.m. EST, newly-announced
Presidential candidate LaRouche will address the following and related issues
at a Washington, D.C. seminar, the third in the series of EIR seminars held
since the outbreak of the U.S. election crisis. The seminar will also be
broadcast live on the internet, in English and Spanish translation, at
www.larouchespeaks.com and www.larouchepub.com. � To participate in the
seminar, or for more information, please call Mark Sonnenblick (703) 771-8490.
