LaRouche: State of the Union Address, 2003

- Save This President To Save This Nation -
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- Save This President To Save This Nation -

At this time, even though there are many people in the Democratic Party in particular, whom I look at as very valuable to the nation and the party; in the Senate, in the House of Representatives, among Governors, among leading figures in various caucuses and factions in the parties--these are valuable people. One Republican Senator who took a stand against the war, represents the old Midwest Republican farmbelt crowd; a very valuable person. But none of these people, in the Democratic Party so far, or the Republican Party, are capable or willing to bite the bullet on the issue of policy which must be faced. They will go to secondary issues; they will go to amelioratives; they will not to the gut issues which I shall address here. And it's my job to present that.

So, for the two years to come, let us think about saving this President, in his function as a sitting President, but also save the nation from the follies he might tend to commit without good advice, and good pressures. We must take, predominantly--and start from a non-partisan view of this matter--to re-educate and steer a disoriented and incapable President, to become a successful President. Not for the purpose of re-electing him; but for the purpose of saving the nation. And I think we can find someone to replace him after that.

That's the job. That should be the mission. That is the state of the union. This nation is now with a weak President, with two political parties which do not function and cannot respond effectively to any of the crucial issues of life or death of the nation. And we've got to get this nation safely through the next two years. And we're in peril. And the world's in peril. That is the state of the union.

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