ICHEOKU says in the spirit of low expectation, his penchant for forgetfulness and many previous and continuing misspeaks factored in, former Vice President Joe Biden did exceptionally well in his second coronavirus media briefing since March. Although it took a long time in materializing, but what is most important is that the Democratic Party's presidential candidate made it happen.
For his fortitude and perseverance under a certainly very challenging times and circumstances, ICHEOKU commends Joe Biden for showing up on the podium and particularly, for taking questions thereafter. While teleprompter is a good assistant in making speeches, answering questions on the fly is more daunting, as it requires processing the question and then articulating the required answers. Joe Biden acquitted himself reasonably well and far beyond what many people were expecting of him since he went into hibernation in his basement bunker due to fear of the Chinese Wuhan coronavirus disease.
ICHEOKU is not a hack partisan and in fact not a partisan at all, but offers commentary based on rational assessment. Joe Biden is definitely not the best candidate to go up against President Donald John Trump, admitted his Democratic Party's honchos and Deep Staters concluded otherwise. His days are since long gone and the Donald John Trump who eviscerated Hillary Clinton in 2016 will make a mince meat of Joe Biden. He will walk all over Joe Biden. It does not matter how unapologetically optimistic any Democrat is, one thing to accept is that Joe Biden's best days are no longer around and being a man, people will not expect the president to go easy on him during the debates.
The former Vice President will not get the safety cordon like Hillary Clinton got in 2016 with the president being mindful not to be overly aggressive at her for fear of being called out as mean to a woman. With Joe Biden, no similar societal constraint exist and the president will be at liberty to pounce on and hammer him down on the debate stage, no apologies made nor expected.
Anyway, ICHEOKU was impressed with the level of life still left in Joe Biden that he was able to stand up on his own ability and for as long as he did; read through the teleprompter without fumbling much and of course went on to take and answer some questions. ICHEOKU hopes that the former Vice President and presidential candidate can make his meet the media event more frequent and that way, rev up his preparation for the presidential debates which has a way of making or marring candidates. That is believing that he will stick to the agreed three debates and not shirk away due to doctor's advise.
During the debates, will Joe Biden avoid making mistakes, mispronunciations and will he be able to remember his lines, particularly the one-line zingers which keep presidential debates interestingly fascinating. Will he on the other hand, volunteer that his time is up or say let's just forget about it or never mind? ICHEOKU says only a clairvoyant with power to see the future can safely vouchsafe what situational condition Americans will find Joe Biden before November 3rd. So, until then, ICHEOKU wishes Joe Biden best of luck. Congratulations Joey.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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