Democratic Party PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: A DEBATE THAT NEVER DEBATED.

ICHEOKU says at this stage of the selection process, when the Democratic Party is still trying to find the best candidate to take on President Donald John Trump in next year's November 3rd, 2020 presidential election, the focus of the candidates should have been on themselves and not the president. They are respectively seeking the opportunity to be their party's presidential flag bearer and their focus should have been solely on this primary objective, how to become the nominee and then he or she can start debating the president. A candidate can only emerge as the party's nominee by submerging his or her fellow competitors for that singular privilege. 

That is what presidential primaries are about, the kneecapping of opponents; and the surviving candidate, who secured the nomination, will then punt to attacking the man in the White House who he or she wants to replace. The main objective of candidates vying in any party's presidential primaries is to win the nomination of the party, period. Any other thing, including attacking a sitting president is but a needless distraction in which the limited allotted speaking time should not be foolishly wasted on. Therefore, it was disheartening to see the candidates, who are still vying for the privilege of becoming the party's nominee, acting as if they are already the nominee of the party. Instead of focusing on each other and advocating on why they are a better candidate to take on President Donald John Trump and by extension, why they are the best choice for the party's nominee, they acted as if they have already secured the party's nomination and are already debating the president and fretted away valuable minutes doing that. 

ICHEOKU says it is tactically foolish and strategically inept and rather preposterous for them to be gunning for the mat without first securing the ground on which to lay the mat. Attacking the president will not secure them the party's nomination; rather they must demonstrate why they are better than each other, by attacking and destroying the policy objective of each other and letting the primaries voting Democrats know why they are better than each other, the reason they are the best candidate to take on the president in 2020. Without destroying each other, by exposing the weaknesses and flaws of each other, how then can the Democrats make up their mind and decide on who to beat fly their party's flag. By being gun-shy and making tepid responses, they suggest that they are more of the same, simply a generic collection of candidates; in which case any of them would suffice. Thus begging the question, why waste time, energy and money going through the primaries since the Party could have just handpicked any one of the candidates and get it over with. 

Game of the Throne readily comes to mind that if there is only one nomination slot, how else does any of the candidates get to be the nominee by sparing other who are also coveting the same position.  Power game is ruthless. It is not for the squeamish and faint hearted; only the brave, courageous and fearless makes a cutthroat dash for it. ICHEOKU expected some of the candidates to be mortally wounded during the debate, but regrettably, none of them suffered more than a bruise. This makes it harder to choose the candidate for the general election within the motley of candidates still standing and that is practically all of the 20 of them. 

ICHEOKU says if these candidates are so timid and circumspect to pull the trigger at each other, how then can whoever eventually emerges stand President Trump in a debate and general election campaign? But playing the devil's advocate, assuming he or she miraculous wins the November 3rd, 2020 election, how is she or he going to take on Russia's Vladimir Putin, Chinese Xi Jingpin, North Korea's Kim Jong Un, Iranian Ayatollah and Venezuela's Innocent Maduro. These candidates are showing lack of steely resolve and lacking in backbone and American people will not have any of them in place of President Donald John Trump, the acclaimed unabashed defender in chief of America and its people and values. 

The primaries should be a demolition derby of each other, to help clear their competitors out of the way in an otherwise overcrowded field. They are fighting for the presidential nomination of their party and must strictly keep their eyes on the ball; and stop being distracted by what is ahead of the eventual winner of the nomination process; first things first. The worst offender of this queasiness is Bernie Sanders, who despite the raw hand dealt him by Queen Crooked Hillary and the Democratic Party's honchos in 2016, is once again very reluctant to make a serious play for the party's nomination, by demolishing his arch rival Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren. He is too hesitant and such is not a quality of a leader. 

ICHEOKU says except if Bernie Sanders is just an unserious agitator without a real intent on becoming president, his strategy of playing it safe with his fellow contestants is not a game changing winning plan. He should have imbibed the lesson of fool me once shame on you, but fool me twice shame on me. Why is he even running if he is this gun-shy? It is for this reason that ICHEOKU commends the Congressman and Senator from California, Eric Swalwell and Kamala Harris, for going where others refused to go, the issue of Joe Biden's inevitability. While Swalwell shone the light on Joe Biden's long stay in Washington DC since 1972; Harris pointed the searchlight on Joe Biden's somewhat racist past. These two pointers are necessary as it gave Americans reason to look more deeply at Joe Biden and question if he indeed has the right qualifying resume to go forward. 

The change in government which is being clamored for, cannot be obtained by allowing the same people who crashed the things, back into governing or to fix what they intentionally broke. They purposely broke them and have no intention to right their wrong, so why border asking them to, knowing fully well that they will not do so because they created the mess in the first place and for a reason, and will want it to remain as is. The most laughable of them all is Joe Biden who is complaining that the government is broken and ICHEOKU asks Joe Biden to explain to the American people who broke the government, if not a guy who has been in government for 47 long years. Such a longevity leaves many people wondering what exactly does Joe Biden wants to suddenly do now, which 47 years was not enough time for him to have mission accomplished. Then throw in Bernie Sanders who complained that the Supreme Court could use new blood and you wonder why he does not think same of the Senate as well as the party's nominee? 

ICHEOKU says the Democratic Party should just forget all the pretenses of a primary and just coronate their favorite candidate Joe Biden and get it over with. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party is democratic in name only and have institutionalized cronyism and a hierarchical order in the party, where one can only rise through the ranks by obeying party honchos and elders, who own the party and handpicks who gets what and who rises to which office within the party. They did it with Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton and are once again doing it with Joe Biden, trying to stifle the people and deny them their real choice. But if they succeed in foisting a NO ENERGY Joe Biden on the party, it will spell four more years for President Donald John Trump; because without enthusiasm and excitement among Democratic Party's voters, they will not turn out in the election because there is nothing in it for them. It will remain just the same old song, a veneer of paint on an old structure. 

Overall, Elizabeth Warren proved herself most worthy of consideration in the debate, admitted that her excessive radicalism will not play well in the general election. After the hair-raising experiences with Barack Obama, Americans are not ready to take another chances with another radical in their White House. But if she wins the primaries, who will she pick as her vice presidential candidate running mate. A female and female ticket will not win the general election nor would a radical and radical ticket win either. A female minority ticket like Kamala Harris will not win also, because it will leave white males wondering what their faith would be under such a hostile takeover by wild eyed, crazed out, feminist female. It would have been much easier for a black female candidate and a white male running mate to run; but again, Kamara Harris is too radical for comfort and will not win the nomination of the Democratic Party and if she does, she will be roundly rejected by the American people. 

ICHEOKU says candidate Marianne Williamson in fact captured the correct mood of Americans and the reason President Donald John Trump will win a reelection, he has captured American peoples' spirit with his Americanism brand of politics. A matter made worse because of the extreme far left which the Democratic Party has veered to, where it would appear that the candidates were campaigning in a different foreign country and not for America's presidency. Some candidates were speaking foreign language to American audience, advocating for socialism, canvasing for open borders, free medical care to illegal immigrants and banishing every institution of law enforcement in America; and you wonder the level which the Democratic Party will not go with their pandering. The good news however is that Americans are still in the majority, compared to all the illegal immigrants put together, so come November 3rd, 2020, they will troupe out to vote to secure their country and keep it safe from foreign invaders and protect its capitalism and general way of life. Translation, President Donald John Trump WINS. #PassTheTorch.