MANCHESTER, N.H. – The veteran journalist who made history last October when he published in The New Hampshire Gazette documentary proof that the grandfather and great-grandfather of President George W. Bush were Nazi traitors to their country will officially launch his campaign against Bush in the Presidential primaries with an appearance on Monday, January 5 at the New Hampshire Political Action Association’s Presidential Candidates Forum, the oldest such event in the state’s long history of explosive, confrontational politics.
He will make “a major speech” and answer questions in a one-hour session with the media and interested observers from across the political and demographic spectrums.
On Tuesday, January 6, Buchanan will appear at a similar event in Concord, sponsored by New Hampshire Political Library. The following day, he will appear at the College Convention, which draws students, political activists and journalists from all over the world. Buchanan will end his first week of aggressive campaigning with an appearance Saturday, January 10, at the New Hampshire independent voters forum in Bedford and a Town Hall Meeting in Concord on Sunday evening, January 11.
Buchanan is basing his campaign on three key issues and a legendary piece of US history – the 1968 Presidency-ending upset of Lyndon Johnson in the New Hampshire primary by Senator Eugene McCarthy.
“My three issues,” says Buchanan, a 53-year-old native of Virginia, “are the unanswered and troubling questions about 9/11 and ongoing attempts by the Bush administration to obstruct any investigation of what happened and who is accountable; the campaign of lies and deceit that led to the Iraq war, which is nothing but a war profiteering scam, and Bush’s violation of major campaign promises and core Republican values, from ‘no nation-building’ to the biggest deficit in history.”
Buchanan notes that another journalist named Buchanan – Pat Buchanan, who “upset” Bush’s father in the 1992 New Hampshire primary and effectively ended his Presidency as a result – has stated in a recent essay in The Atlantic Monthly that Bush is “vulnerable” to an assault from his right, on issues including the “quagmire” in Iraq, the deficits, the failure to protect our borders from illegal immigration, the massive “export” of American jobs, and preferential treatment for the wealthy corporate elite.
“My candidacy is a referendum on two simple questions,” Buchanan says. “First, do truth and honor still matter in this country – and in the White House? If they do, George Bush should be replaced by another Republican – me. The second question is who owns the government – we the people, or the big corporate interests? Those are important questions that no other candidate, of either party, has the courage to raise in the post-9/11 environment of The Patriot Act and institutionalized fears and national paranoia.”
Buchanan, who claims his work has never been retracted for inaccuracy in 33 years as a journalist, says that he hopes the result of his fact-based “campaign” as "a working journalist" will be a bipartisan inquiry by the US Congress, beginning with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
“The American people have to right to know, based on the facts and sworn testimony, whether the President of the United States is a liar and war criminal,” says Buchanan. “If he led us to war, costing nearly 500 American lives and thousands of Iraqi deaths, or he was complicit in allowing the tragedy of 9/11 to happen, costing almost 3,000 lives, he is guilty of treason and should be held accountable.”
For more information on Buchanan’s campaign, visit www.johnbuchanan.org, or send an e-mail to jtwg (at) bellsouth.net.