Shaping the New Presidency

Lyndon LaRouche made the following remarks on May 31, 2015.

I’ve expressed this several times in public, and I think I should restate the case right now, just to make sure that this thing is solidly understood.

We are on the point that we must urgently have a new President of the United States. That means an interim process where our intention is to get Obama thrown out of the office of President, which means there’ll be some new way of filling in the vacuum created by the absence of Obama. Now that’s absolutely a necessary process, because you have to have a sorting out period for the treatment of the general election. Now, if we’re blanketing something against Obama, that means there has to be an interim change, in which a new, interim President is acting to replace Obama. And that’s very important.

Now the transition has another implication. The Republicans have a claim that they have a marginal advantage in this thing. Now that’s doubtful, when it comes through the Bush family. I don’t think that the Bush candidacy is something that will stand up under these conditions. But something is going to happen.

So we have to talk about a transitional period between the time, we hope very soon, that Obama is thrown out of office. But we have to have that kind of idea. We have to formulate that idea, and express that idea. In other words, get the people out there to see something of a transitional process between this process of throwing Obama out of the Presidency, into bringing in a new Presidency under the order of magnitude here. So that’s what we have to concentrate on.

And we actually have to be a part of that. And all this stuff about the other possibilities of electing, of new elections—forget it! Forget it! What we have to do, is we have to get a landslide effect, in terms of the coming general election, but we have to also have something, an interim program, which leads into the new election. And that’s what we have to do.

It’s going to be a tough fight, but we have to do it, and we have to specify: Look, what’s happening out there, most of the politicians don’t really know what this is all about. They have mouths, they can spew things out, they can copy things, and make quotations and so forth. We are going to accumulate, I think, if we continue in the present direction, we’re going to find that there are more people and more odors and so forth, in the interim process. And I think we can win the general election, under those conditions. But we have to pick this question of the transitional period very seriously; we’ve got to discuss it up. We’ve got to discuss among ourselves what this means; understand we are faced with a transition from Obama being thrown out of office, and a transitional replacement for him, within the existing term of office from which Obama is thrown out.

And we’ve got to think accordingly. In other words, we have to be in the process, not of saying: “Who’s going to win? Who’s going to win? Who’s going to win? Who’s going to popular? Who’s going to do this?”

Forget all that crap! We have to say, we, of the United States: O’Malley is probably the best qualified President, right now; but that’s a process. And we really have to think that way. And don’t get any ideas of being practical. Don’t be practical! Being practical, under these conditions, is like choosing to be buried. You’re not going to accomplish anything; you’re going to be dead; no one will miss you. So this kind of thing we’ve got to deal with right now is crucial.

And the fact that we’ve organized, changed the character of our organization based on the Thursday discussions process [with activists across the country], that is going to be a leading driver for our influence in dealing with what has to be done now. We have to define that as our policy.

O’Malley is the most likely person with the qualifications to become the next President. We say, well that’s not a fact yet; but that’s what’s on the plate. Because the Republican Party in general is a mess, but we think that people that could be suspected of being Republicans who would not be stupid, would make a useful contribution to the process.

This is the kind of thing we have to think about. And don’t think about something else. This is what we have to think about.

First of all, how are we going to do this? Well, first of all we’ve got a basis in Manhattan. We have some people who are attached to Manhattan, even though they are not residents of Manhattan. Also we have the Thursday meeting, which is really our national organizational meeting, is what it is. It’s done by telephone, and it probably will have other offshoots and other reflections. So we are going to be on the march to actually recruit people to join this process. And that’s what we have to do.

Don’t try to worry about coming up with something. You have to have a concept which actually bridges all the essential requirements of the interim period. In other words, you are not going to say: “Well, we’re going to limit ourselves to this one phase, or something.” That’s not acceptable. We have the means right now.

What I’ve experienced with the recent Thursday discussions: we already have the root of a mass organization, which will be a key factor in influencing the shaping of the new Presidency of the United States. That’s our mission. That’s the way we’ve got to think. And by doing that, we are going to create a stir among the larger population around what we are doing on these Thursday events. And that’s what we have to do.

You’ve got the California problem in general. The California problem is now more dangerous, because it involves an attempt to really deal with the water question in a very mass murderous way. So we have to be organized around that factor as well.

These are things that you don’t talk about in the distant future; this is today, this is right now. And that’s the attitude we have to take on, from this point on.