PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IS ONE YEAR IN OFFICE: HURRAY!

ICHEOKU says, must commend the president for standing up for nearly two hours and fielding questions from journalists who were gathered for his press conference to mark his year in office. At his nearly eighty years old age, it was remarkable that he went the full hog without sipping any water or taking a rest break or sitting down. It shows that all the cycling he does with First Lady Dr Jill Biden pays off and that the last medical checkup report was not fishy. Kudos Mr President.

The president also confirmed that he will run for reelection in 2024 and will retain Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate. It shows that the president is not worried about his state of health affairs, despite what is glaringly obvious However, ICHEOKU will suggest that the president curb his enthusiasm about a 2024 rerun as it is rather too early to take such a firm position now, especially when his current term is still three years to go; and the majority of American people are not feeling the bun of his administration. If the ship of the state is not righted and steered to a correct direction, his own political party might even find the idea of fielding him in 2024 too absurd a position bordering on a political suicide to even contemplate that. 

But be that as it may, he has declared his intention to run for reelection, thereby putting  everyone on notice, including former President Donald John Trump, Hillary Clinton and other members of his party. By declaring now, he has also let members of the Democratic Party that he will be taking very unkindly to any attempt by any of them to challenge him for the party's presidential ticket come 2024. It was the primary reason they tag-teamed former Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo out of the way and out of relevance with all the sexual scandal. 

The former governor was about the only formidable person who would have successfully mounted a challenge and possibly wrestled the ticket out of President Joe Biden. But with him now gone and Vice President Kamala Harris now promised a second vice presidential ticket run, the coast is apparently clear for the president, provided he will be in a good enough state of health, particularly of his mental health.

Anyway, the president said that he did not overpromise Americans during his election campaign in 2020, but he sure was big on promises but very short on delivery, which has put his administration in a pickle and will haunt him through to 2024 unless things dramatically improve for the better. He promised to shut down the coronavirus but the dreadful killer virus is still raging on like Santa Anna wildfire of Southern California, such that today the death toll in America is fast creeping up to the one million number mark. So many unfulfilled promises are now his Achilles heel leading up to the 2022 midterm election and they may linger on to 2024. 

The president promised Build Back Better, but that too is practically gasping for breath. He promised to unify Americans, but Americans are today more divided than they were when he made the promise in 2020. Instead of shutting down the coronavirus as he promised, it is the economy that he is on the cusp of shutting down, such that millions of American people are still unemployed and so many things have also become out of reach for millions of households. Gasoline, groceries, automobiles and other basic essential necessities have almost become practically unaffordable and travel has also seen a rapid cost increase. 

He promised voting rights legislation, but that too has been admitted into an intensive care unit and placed on a life support machine. Nearly every big ticket promise the president made to the American people while campaigning for the office, are comatose and without accomplishing on any of them, he now feels that going to talk to the American people about the failure to deliver, will somehow magically make their problems go away or become accepted as the new normal. So, what exactly is the case which President Joe Biden is going on the road to make to the American people, when they are feeling the pinch themselves from the many failures and unfulfilled promises of his administration. 

Even things Congressman James Clyburn assured to black people in South Carolina that  President Joe Biden's administration was going to make "easy and accessible" have themselves completely disappeared; so, what is the use of a road map when the destination no longer exists. Instead of making things "easy and accessible", the president has completely wiped them off the map. So, what case is he going to make to American people when they are feeling the hole in their pockets, wallets and checkbooks; holes drilled there by inflation from hell, which have caused prices of living essentials to go through the roof of unaffordable. 

A wise person should know when to pull back from an endeavor which is not yielding a desired and anticipated result. But President Joe Biden would rather stay the course, doing the same things he is presently doing or trying to do, and still expecting a different result. Is this how a  school of thought defines insanity? He said that he will not pull back on his many big ticket items which are literally moribund. A matter which his nearly fifty years membership in the Washington swamp could not help give him a leg up or leeway. He thought that his former boss President Barack Obama received the opposition he got because he "ain't white" and believing that as a good ole boy he will be treated differently and that the Republicans will cut him some slack. 

His whispering voice in some responses was rather eerie; and he was sometimes hardly audible enough for people to make out what he was saying. He also said that because of military superiority over Ukraine that Russia will be able to prevail overtime in any resulting war with Ukraine. This begs the question, if hostilities break out, whether NATO will stand idly by and watch as Russia rumbles through into Kiev. What is the point then of all the recent heavy threatening statements if NATO will not man up and face down President Vladimir Putin's aggression on an independent sovereign country. 

Why was Saddam Hussein driven out of Kuwait and why was Adolf Hitler chased out of occupied Europe? What exactly did the president mean by "minor incursion" or does that mean that Russia can seize the entire swathe of Eastern Ukraine or every other land space in Ukraine short of Kiev?  It is definitely a part of the president's conference that needs an urgent clarification and hopefully the White House will send out a fill the gap statement immediately. 

Those 17 economics Nobel laureates who commended the president's economic policies and general direction of the country are only as good as those 250 retired military brass who asked the American people to vote for the president in 2020. It is definitely becoming a question of buyer's remorse for all of them now; and whatever report card the president said will be good for his reelection in 2024 is not going to be based on the current general situation in the country. Unless things turn around for the better, members of his Democratic Party will be soon mouthing "Joe please do not run for a reelection" and before the year runs out. 

The president also claimed that 5 republican senators approve of his administration policies and the trajectory in which the country. is presently in. ICHEOKU says it must be in his head, imagining things which are not there and like Sixth Sense Joel Osment, instead of dead people, the president is seeing five imaginary republican senators, phantoms,

He also claimed that he had the backs of black people throughout his life, the reason he said "you ain't black" if you think outside the box or vote outside the parameters. So, if he has been for blacks throughout his life, why did he wait for fifty years to make voting rights an issue so worthy of his endeavor that casting aspersion on people who disagree with his approach, is now acceptable behavior. He denied calling people who are not down with his agenda George Wallace while choosing to forget that when you say that somebody is on a person's side, it means that they share and support the position of the person. This is the reason MAGA nation proudly identifies with former President Donald John Trump because we agree and share his position on America First. So, how could the president deny calling people he accused of sharing the views of and supporting the position of George Wallace, racists?

The president also said that vice president Kamala Harris is doing a good job which reminds people of former President George W Bush extolling then FEMA director Mike Brown as doing "one heck of a good job" in his handling of Hurricane Katrina. This is a vice president who cannot deliver on immigration run amok; who cannot deliver on voters rights legislation and who cannot deliver on other major assignments given to her by the president, yet she is doing a good job. How exactly does doing a bad job look like, if her inability to deliver on so many assignments is now a definition and benchmark for doing a good job. 

It is also noteworthy that the president attacked the idea of having robust discussions on issues in America, saying that without reaching "consensus" that we cannot sustain our democracy. ICHEOKU says America has been that way for over 200 years of practicing democracy, as issues are not usually rubber-stamped by the American people. But now, President Joe Biden sees things differently and wants to get rid of senate filibuster rule as well as other democracy sustaining tools which were put in place by our founding fathers. The statement is an insight into democrats headstrong on destroying opposing views in America and they are going full throttle to achieve it. But thanks to West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, there is some hope left that President Joe Biden will not be allowed to kill democracy in America.

It is also laughable watching the president say that he will be campaigning with many democrats who will be running for reelection and other offices this year and continuing; and you wonder which democratic candidate will eagerly looking forward or even allow him to come near them, with such a record which he has set in his first year in office, and with an approval rating now hovering in the low 30 percentile. The president also mistakenly claimed that 48 democrat senators support his agenda, but chose to forget that Vermont's Senator Bernie Sanders is an independent and not a democrat. 

Overall, the press conference was not too bad; at least he stood unaided for the nearly two hours it lasted and he also attempted to answer all the questions that were asked of him. ICHEOKU is not a fan and never was; and campaigned to prevent his election but the deep state military industrial complex and their media minors had the upper hand. He is our president and we expect him to succeed by delivering on his promises to the American people during the campaign. 

ICHEOKU is not disappointed with his failures in office thus far because we did not expect much from his administration. But it shows that Washington DC is a deep swamp for a reason, it does not discriminate as swamp dwellers do not care whether or not you are a member; otherwise a dweller with over 50 years residency would have had a more forgiving acceptance and given a smooth sailing with his presidency. But it does not look like President Joe Biden is enjoying any benefit from his long sojourn in Washington DC and what he fought all his life to get, the presidency. Anyway, congratulations to President Joe Biden on his first full year in office. Let's hope that things will get better going forward, but let nobody bank on it.