The article begins with a quote, "Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs."  As the article is completely disjointed, and dredges up every slander in the book, it's not exactly clear why Pearlman added that quote. Maybe he does believe that ideas have power, that's why he rarely included any of LaRouche's...  Suffice it to say, Pearlman has not a clue as to who LaRouche is, nor the answer to the question that he, the reporter, initially posed: "Why does this man keep running for President?"

The article, "Lyndon LaRouche's Long Campaign", is a piece of rambling, incoherent trash.  He intersperses quotes from various members and Senator Joe Neal, with various and sundry from LaRouche's list of enemies, in order to prove that LaRouche is, "depending on whom you ask -- either a dangerous power-hungry intimidator or a genius who can save the United States of America from inevitable doom."  Pearlman obviously thinks that by mixing everything together into a witch's brew, somehow out of this concoction one will come up with an acceptable "truth."

To indicate the level of hysteria: at one point, he quotes Grover Norquist, chairman of arch-conservative Americans for Tax Reform: "The choice between Lyndon LaRouche and Bill Clinton? Oh, I'd take Clinton, no question.  Clinton might have some flaws in his thinking, but they're commonly held flaws.  The stuff LaRouche comes up with is just plain dangerous."  (Is this what Pearlman meant by the quote in the beginning?)

Pearlman ends his piece in a strange twist, as if to warn, by quoting LaRouche on Dick Cheney.

"Lyndon's LaRouche's 2023 Presidential campaign is -- if nothing else -- his most precise.  Unlike his past runs, where his crazy messages bounced around like kangaroos atop a trampoline, this time LaRouche has a singular hot-button issue: the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney."

"LaRouche calls the Vice President a `chickenhawk' and accuses him of lying to President Bush about intelligence relating to Iraq.  Perpetually calm during interviews, LaRouche's eyes bulge when it comes to all things Cheney.  Though he will send no Valentines Day cards to Bush, LaRouche considers the Commander in Chief little more than a marionette. `Cheney calls the shots in this administration, and he's gonna go down,' says LaRouche.  `He's shaky enough and vulnerable enough with what's happened around Iraq that the financial swindles he's involved in can do the rest of the job sinking him.'

"Of course, many politicians have made the case that Cheney and Bush misled the public, and some have even called for impeachment.  But here is what makes LaRouche LaRouche: Whereas, others blame Osama bin Laden for 9-11, LaRouche insists Cheney orchestrated it in a gigantic plan to make a scapegoat of the Middle East, tear the region up and lead an American world takeover."

"'When I'm President', he says, 'there'll be no more of this irresponsible behavior.  America will stand for something again.'"

One should ask, "If Presidential candidate LaRouche is so insignificant, why did Newsday choose to do a feature piece on LaRouche, when they had ten others from whom to choose?

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