THE WORLD IS TOO SOPHISTICATED FOR ROMNEY - NEWT GINGRICH?

"The Romney campaign has yet to find a thematic way of explaining itself and laying out in a clear, crisp way the difference between Romney and Obama. And I think that, frankly, is a problem. Romney's conundrum is his rigidity and inability to navigate out of his pigeonholed position. They seem to have this overly methodical model where they go out and keep saying the same thing over and over again, and the world's too fluid, the world's too sophisticated for that." - Newt Gingrich. 

Icheoku says a direct and candid admonition of the Mitt Romney's inept campaign has never been this sizzling, Give it up to the bomb-throwing Newt, a man between whom and The Mitt there is no love lost, the man who divorced his cancer-stricken wife on her hospital bed. Anyway America what do you expect from the man who is still nursing his demolition in the hands of The Mitt during their last presidential primaries. But hey, sometimes, the truth can even come from imbeciles and Mitt Romney better retool his campaign and messaging now that The Newt have joined those Republicans already expressing a buyer's remorse; to avoid a total loss of face defeat come November. But what is birther-in-chief  Donald Trump and Russian sighter from Alaska Sarah Palin saying, now that their candidate has grossly proved himself both incompetent and unintelligent, cannot run a campaign and would be a disaster of a president should the unexpected happen. But gladly enough, Americans realized on time that a Mitt Romney's presidency would be too toxic for America and they are fleeing his ship as soon as they can get up their butt and dive off. 

A GOOD MAN IS A GOOD MAN - MADONNA

"I was being ironic on stage. Yes, I know Obama is not a Muslim - though I know that plenty of people in this country think he is. And what if he were? The point I was making is that a good man is a good man, no matter who he prays to. I don't care what religion Obama is - nor should anyone else in America." - MADONNA, the material girl explaining her reference to President Barack Obama as a "black Muslim?" Icheoku says America gets it except for few stuck in the past who would rather  a "nigger" does not occupy "their" White House.

VOTE FOR ME 'COS AM LIKE OBAMA - MITT ROMNEY?

Icheoku says give it up to The Mitt, the magician with so many tricks up his hat. When American voters think they have seen and heard all that the Mormon bishop has for them, here comes a campaign-doozy, asking voting Americans to vote for him because he is like Obama? Icheoku queries why would any voter then settle for a clone when the original is still very much around? Why would the voting public vote for a "like" when the "main" is still around? Why would Americans vote for a knock-off when they can still get the real thing? I don't know about you, but Icheoku makes bold to say that it is about time The Romney campaign received a long overdue shot in the arm or counselling or a total and complete make-over to remain in contention and competitive. If it means dropping the fundamentalist extremist Paul Ryan from the ticket, so be it; since he brought nothing to the campaign in the first place and have only served as a complete drag to a once somewhat viable campaign.

What in the hell is the woody-Mitt doing running this lifeless campaign and in such a shoddy manner that would make Newt Gingrich last mid-summer's dream appear "highly organised" juxtaposed with the mess that is the current Romney's effort? Is he the same Mitt that allegedly had the "stellar" outing with Bain Capital or did Icheoku hear he never did the heavy lifting at Bain personally but "harvested" the resounding success as his? Just hear the Mormon bishop from the liberal state of Massachusetts say in his latest campaign advertisement that "he and President Obama both care about the poor and the needy of our society? That his Massachusetts "Romney I Don't Care" health reform is similar to "OBAMACARE" which shows his compassionate character just like Obama? That his foreign policy is like President Obama's? And that Bill Clinton equally endorsed him?"

Therefore, Icheoku asks, what then is The Mitt doing running against his "mirror-image?" What then is Mr Flip-flop running on and why does he still wants to unseat an incumbent who he agrees shares many of his philosophies? Needless to add that the same Mitt Romney has assured Americans that President Barack Obama is a nice guy in addition to sharing many of his policies and beliefs. Late Senator Ted Kennedy, it would appear, rightly summed Mitt Romney up when he said, given extra few weeks, Mitt Romney might as well vote for his opponent. Icheoku is gradually but surely getting to a point of conviction that come November 6, the real Bain Capital Mitt Romney might not vote for the present caricature Mitt Romney running for president; but instead would cast his vote rightly and correctly, as would millions of other rational and reasonable Americans, for the right choice - President Barack Obama. On November, vote wisely, vote your interest, VOTE OBAMA.

MITT ROMNEY'S CAMPAIGN SUCKS - PEGGY NOONAN.

Icheoku didn't say that, Republican columnist did; and who are we to fault that assertion. Admitted that the manner Mitt Romney ran his campaign so far is giving some of us reason to question if indeed he truly, personally ran Bain Capital?  According to Peggy Noonan, "It’s time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one. This week I called it incompetent, but only because I was being polite, I really meant ‘rolling calamity." 

Icheoku says when oracles of the Republican Party begin a cadaverous feasting on their own presidential candidate, the implication is that the candidate has indeed gone beyond being not so good to being dead on arrival. It is therefore about time such candidate suspended his campaign or re-organised or at least in part, in order to save face. If Icheoku was advising the campaign of the Mormon bishop from liberal state of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, we would suggest he just pack it up now and quit the Republican party for good, if not politics entirely. No candidate can go the whole hog of winning a presidential election without the ardent and active support of his political party as his core base and Mitt Romney, who the Republican Party lunatic base never had any love lost for, will not be an exception. The only earth-shaking thing The Mitt can do now is to go out with a bang - just throw the Republican Party under the bus by abandoning his current effort. He will make history by forcing a situation where a major party did not contest the presidential election and thereby permanently etch his name in the history books as that candidate who chickened out in order to get back at his party which has literally abandoned him. 

MITT ROMNEY'S BROWN YOU ARE DOING A HECK OF A GOOD JOB MOMENT?

In a manner reminiscent of former President George Bush's unmeritously praising of then FEMA director Scott Brown during Katrina, the Republican Party's presidential candidate, the Mormon bishop from the state of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, has lavished praises on his beleaguered presidential campaign, calling it very effective. Icheoku decries this assessment as one of those calls which Mitt Romney makes without a full and complete real appraisal of the situation on the ground. Any independent observer and watchers alike, who have followed the many potholes the Mitt Romney's campaign have struggled to dig themselves out of these past weeks, would agree that the Mitt over-exaggerated and over-compensated his campaign when he called it "very effective." Americans know what the real deal with the Romney's campaign is; and only a less truthful assessor would, taking all that have transpired with the campaign during the week just ended into consideration, still go forth to term it as very positive.

Icheoku is an ardent supporter of President Obama and anything the other side says or does that would continue to highlight their many negatives on why they should not be elected, including not being truthful with Americans, makes my day. However on the occasion of Mitt Romney wrongly assessing the parlous state of his campaign or being completely in denial of the real situation on the ground, gives us cause to ponder if Mitt Romney actually lives in a reality-tinged world or he just have his own world where reality means a different thing.

Anyway, any follower of his lackluster campaign so far would agree that the Mitt is not "human" as his pronouncements, actions and mannerisms has not met that expectations required of a man running for the highest office in our land and who truly desires to be elected as our president. From his self-acclaimed "acute conservative" tag, to his 'I don't really care about the poor of the society,' to his refusal to release his tax records, to his choosing of extremist fundamentalist Paul Ryan as his vice presidential candidate, to his refusing to run on his record as Massachusetts governor, to his unending flip-flops on issues and to his latest and craziest "47%" comment, one is forced to think that this Mitt is not deep enough to be president. When his gaffes on foreign relations is factored in, then America has waiting to be their president, a man who would plunge the country into further and unending hostilities with the rest of the world.

The solution is simple, his candidacy MUST BE REJECTED as too toxic for America. No more wars, no more over-heating the world polity, no more irrational foreign policy initiatives, no more gloom and doom for Americans as well as the rest of the world.

Until November, despite Romney's claim that he is 'got a very effective campaign which is doing a very good job and doesn't need a turnaround,' Icheoku is not in a position to correctly decode the type of campaign being ran by Team-Romney; but suffice it to say that it is closer to Peggy Noonan assessment of "a rolling calamity". This also begs the question, did Mitt Romney personally run Bain Capital or he did it by proxy otherwise why are those alleged successes of Bain capital not being replicated and resonated in his presidential campaign which for most part has entered an ICU. But Mitt Romney lives in a different world and probably is seeing it from the perspective of a mediocre who reached thus far, defeating other more conservative Republicans to emerge as the presidential candidate of the Republican Party and might be satisfied with simply wearing the badge of the 2012 Republican Party presidential candidate. Only time will tell.

ATTACKS ON OBAMA, 99% PERSONAL.

Icheoku says anyone who has lived in racist America understands fully well what underlying factor is particularly fueling the virulent attack on President Barack Obama and which has remained incessantly unabated ever since he was sworn in as 44th president of the United States of America. IT IS RACISM, period. So many white Americans have not and cannot get a handle around the fact that a "NIGGER" is their president and is occupying "their" White House. Admitted that the economy has not fully recovered, but at least it has left the ICU where the former administration checked it into and it can only be forward movement to full recovery thenceforth. But for these people, it does not  matter and even if the economy were to recover like it is on steroid, they would still find a reason to crisis and demonize the president. Like they gave credit for killing Bin Laden on the previous administration, were the economy to bounce back, they would give kudos to George Bush because a "Nigger" can never do right by these folks especially when the "Nigger" went against the grain and is "usurping" their White House? 

These folks see and turn red literally speaking, each time they turn on their television sets or tune their radio and hear the name President Barack Obama being mentioned as the president. We live it daily and all minorities of and in America will gladly attest to the daunting heavy load, being a minority in America is, regardless of how successful such minority is or not. Even Chris Rock once joked how a poor white trash gets preferred treatment than some black guy like him with all his millions and you wonder shouldn't America be color blind by this 2012? So it does not matter what President Obama does or accomplishes, in these peoples eyes, he is simply not a "fit" and "proper" person to be occupying the White House; which one hick once told me was renamed the White House for a reason. 

Icheoku says Hank Williams Jr. speaks for majority of Obama haters and bashers alike, many of who are rather coy about publicly airing what their contrived heart churns each time and every time concerning President Obama being in the White House. An unapologetic redneck who once compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler has now gone full throttle to categorically state that "they, his ilks of White Americans, hate OBAMA." Icheoku must say that so many White Americans though appreciate the good work President Obama is doing but would rather see a paler-skinned man in the White House than the "tanned" current occupier. In the words of rabid Hank Williams Jr., speaking of President Obama, he said "We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays, and we hate him!" 

Icheoku reiterates that the same President Obama who they accuse of being a disciple of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and a permanent fixture at his church, spending over twenty years therein is still being branded a MUSLIM? To this people being a Muslim is a crime and you wonder whether the freedom of religion enshrined in the constitution was somehow qualified to be 'as long as it is a Christian religion?' They said he hates cowboys and cowgirls yet many of his cabinet secretaries are cowboys and cowgirls including Ken Salazar and Kathy Sibelius who comes from Kansas of all places, speaking of cow towns and honky-tonky girl? They said he hates fishing and farming yet no president has ever supported farmers and fishermen alike more than this president and one of his most trusted friend Vilsak is in charge of the Agriculture department? Now he is being accused of "loving gays" and you wonder what is it that he is accused of that is different from the teaching of our Lord and Master Jesus about not calling unholy what our God has made or the physician being here for those who are sick and not those who are well. But if Icheoku may ask, what is wrong in loving God's own children equally without boundaries or demarcation just because of who someone chose to love? 

They have accused the president of MURDER (the blood on his hand comment). Hank Williams Siamese twin Rush Limbaugh once accused President Barack Obama of "murdering" Somalia pirates. They have accused him of palling with terrorists. They have accused him of being a communist, a socialist, a re-distributor in chief, fascist, anarchist and all manner of despicable things with which they masquerade their racist disdain for the president. They have also accused him of not being an American which Mitt Romney recently hinted on too. They have accused the president of being a mole for some astral forces readying to destroy America as we know it. Icheoku is pissed off at the level of acerbity these people have descended into and their asinine barrage of attacks directed at the president forces one conclusion - majority of them are not because of his job performance but rather personal. These attacks are coming just because President Obama looks somewhat different from the "usual and normal" occupier of the White House. 

But no matter the outcome of this November election, the fact of the matter remains that a "NIGGER" has occupied "their" White House as president and not millions of Hank Williams or Rush Limbaughs of racist America right-wing can change or wipe clean that feat. So if comes November, these BACKWARD thinking and HURRAY-it-is-deja vu 1950 again Americans succeed, the only people that will actually suffer or hurt are those hapless Americans President Obama is trying so hard to level the playing field for. It will not be Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan or Hank Williams or Rush Limbaugh or even the President himself. No these people are going to be okay no matter what. So if Americans are persuaded by bitterness and hatred and tonnage of lies to VOTE AGAINST THEIR INTEREST, so be it and we shall all survive. America will endure no matter who wins in November; but Icheoku implores these hate-mongers to please wisen up and remember it is 2012 America, life is dynamic and America has since moved on without them.

Governance is not just about the economy, which this president has done a lot already. It is about foreign policy, it is about defense, it is about America's safety. It is about world relationships, it is about carrying everybody along, it is about boarder security, it is about fairness (abolition of don't ask don't tell), it is about compassion, it is about being your brother's keeper and in all these departments President Obama has performed creditably well. He has also kept America safe and gravely wounded Al-Queida as an organisation. This is the reason the other side is not going anywhere near these his accomplishments but are pigeonholed in just one area - the slow but steadily recovering economy. But unlike John Kerry's swift boating, many civilized and knowledgeable Americans shall and must not allow the Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to get away with pulling a wool over their eyes or allowed to run against a fictional Obama without accomplishments. President Obama deserves a second term because he is razor-sharp focused on continuing to move America FORWARD and in the right direction. A Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan adventure would be reliving the nightmare that was George W. Bush/Dick Cheney administration all over again. Let us allow President Obama to finish what he has begun as his second term will see a lot more being accomplished and this opportunity must not slid past us. VOTE for maintaining the FORWARD trajectory, VOTE for BARACK OBAMA. HE gets it ; and he has rightfully and merituosly earned a second TERM.

CATHOLIC CHURCH IS SO YESTERDAY AND OUT OF TOUCH. - CARDINAL MARTINI.

Icheoku says you just heard it from the proverbial horse's mouth, a cardinal of the catholic church has just said that the catholic church is simply out of touch and out of date and needs to reform urgently. The catholic cardinal and former archbishop of the church in Milan, a former candidate for the papacy, CardinalCarlo Maria Martini, said in his last interview before his death that the Catholic Church was "200 years out of date."

Icheoku says may be this was a contrite heart speaking out or was it simply an after-thought; otherwise why did the 85year old not speak out earlier during his fraternal sojourn in the catholic church and rise through the ranks to a cardinal? May be he was a company-man cardinal who did not want his gravy train to be messed with and thus silently tagged along until it was almost his death time to speak out. Professor Wole Soyinka of Nigeria once wrote, the man dies in him who keep silent in the face of tyranny and this late archbishop and cardinal might as well pass for such a man who Soyinka spoke about since the ancient doctrines of the church could be interpreted as being tyrannical to modernity especially its rigid view on abortion and gay marriage as well as divorce; yet he kept mum all these years?

Cardinal Martini was of the opinion that the church is stuck in the past and centuries gone by as the world has literally moved on without it. In his words, "Our culture has aged, our churches are big and empty and the church bureaucracy rises up, our rituals and our cassocks are pompous. The Church must admit its mistakes and begin a radical change, starting from the pope and the bishops. The pedophilia scandals oblige us to take a journey of transformation. A woman is abandoned by her husband and finds a new companion to look after her and her children. A second love succeeds. If this family is discriminated against, not just the mother will be cut off but also her children. In this way the Church loses the future generation. The church is simply stated, 200 years out of date. Why don't we rouse ourselves? Are we afraid?" Icheoku says, yes the church is afraid of letting go of its past because it is equally afraid of what the articulated reforms might throw up. Needless to add that Republican Party's vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is one such of a catholic fundamentalist who is stuck up on ancient doctrines and dogmas of the church, which are so antiquated it offends modern sensibilities as simply out of touch and are irreconcilable with today's societal evolutionary needs