- (EIRNS) - Lyndon LaRouche, world-renowned economist and
former candidate for 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:
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- "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.
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- "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.
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- "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.
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- "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.
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- "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.
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- "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.
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- "I take my stand. We shall sort out the succession
in the leadership as the fight develops over the weeks and months to come."
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- EIR - Executive Intelligence Review PO Box 17390 Washington
DC 20041 www.larouchepub.com
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- Seminar invitation
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- 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.
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- To participate in the seminar, or for more information,
please call Mark Sonnenblick (703) 771-8490.
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