ICHEOKU says he fumbled the ball bigly, so the end which finally came was not unexpected. Rather, the fact that he waited until now to announce it was the surprise. He was not gutsy enough to do what it would have taken to secure the nomination of a party which does not like him, does not want him and which treats him as an outsider. They did it to him previously in 2016 and now they have done it again to him this 2020.
As an insurgent candidate, he needed the audacity of a daredevil but unfortunately, he does not have the DNA of a real insurgent in him. The 2020 Democratic Party's presidential primaries was his to lose and he lost it. His approach was faulty, he went on the Mr NiceGuy route, either because he underestimated the strength of the amassed enemies against him, was too confident of a victory or did not in fact want to win the nomination. He was too circumspect in going after his opponent and campaigned as if the contest was a family affair in which, win or lose, it is ok with him. He did not decisively distinguish himself as the only candidate that merits the nomination. Instead of seeking to demolish Joe Biden, he busied himself attacking the president, forgetting that he had to first win the nomination.
He was overly cautious, restrained, reluctant and gun-shy to go after Joe Biden, the obvious choice of the Democratic Party's establishment. It left many people wondering if indeed he was serious about securing the nomination, viewed against the background of his experience of 2016. He failed or rather refused to take a page from then candidate Donald John Trump's 2016 Republican primaries campaign, particularly how he went after the party's establishment favored candidate Jeb Bush. It was an all out war, a bare-knuckle fight to death. But he chose a different path, the I am a nice guy and Joe is a nice guy too route, which has now cost him the nomination.
Bernie Sanders should have advised himself more properly that going up against a party's establishment candidate would require a take no prisoner type of campaign. That it demanded the type of ruthlessness that overcomes the will to carry on, but he feigned ignorance. The primaries campaign asked for bloodbath, but he was woozy. It demanded an AK47, but he took a pocket knife to the fight. It required scalping his opponent, but he merely nibbled at his ankle. In being so measured, he thought it would earn him respect, but it attracted odium and ridicule, as the Democratic Party neither respects nor fears him. The party machine was turned against him and vanquished, he is now just another casualty of the 2020 Democratic Party primaries, hurriedly endorsing his former opponent.
As it was in 2016 against Hillary Clinton when Bernie Sanders stayed off the "damn emails", so it was in this 2020 as he once again failed to pounce on Joe Biden's many inadequacies including his lack of mental capacity for the office, his son, Hunter Biden's shady dealings with BURISMA and China. He was presented with two golden opportunities but he severally failed to utilize them and they cost him the nomination on two occasions. It is politics and politics is war, but Bernie Sanders went to sleep when he should have stayed wide awake firing on all cylinders. He could have won Hillary Clinton in 2016 if he had pursued her emails burden and he could have also upended Joe Biden's campaign this 2020 if he had pounced on his mental capacity and his son's corruption, but he blew both chances up.
It is so unfortunate that Bernie Sanders gave up so easily without considering the fate of millions of his supporters who have invested so much in his promised new America of free stuff and redistribution of wealth. At the frenzied stage which he worked them to, the campaign was no longer just about him alone. He should have fought as if his life depended on it, aware that millions of people have invested their hopes heavily on a successful outcome of the campaign. But not Bernie Sanders, who seems to be in it for himself alone. He played it safe and was scared stiff of dueling to death with the Democratic Party on behalf of his supporters and for their benefit.
Bernie Sanders knew that he is not a bona fide member of the Democratic Party and that the guardians of the Democratic Party does not want him as their party's presidential candidate. He was also aware that the primaries was not necessarily between him and Joe Biden, but between him and the Democratic Party's establishment; yet he did not act with the urgency to summarily vanquish Joe Biden during the campaign and debates. This message was clearly transmitted to him with his win in only 3 out of the 14 Super Tuesday States. A matter which clearly resonated because Joe Biden's campaign was broke going into Super Tuesday, it had no field offices nor advertised in any of the 14 States, yet he trounced Bernie Sanders. Short of a miracle or the Democratic Party giving marching orders to those States to deliver their votes to Joe Biden, the feat was not humanly possible.
It is regrettable that some special interests have hijacked American democracy and no longer allows the wishes of the American people to prevail in elections. It happens in both parties, although the Republican Party is somewhat more discreet about their own internal manipulations. ICHEOKU is emphatic that had then candidate Donald John Trump ran under the Democratic Party in 2016, they would not have allowed him to win the nomination. How a political party can so openly take side with one candidate against the other candidate, both of who were gunning for the party's presidential nomination, is simply beyond rational understanding. It is not fair and it is condemnable and should be condemned by every democracy loving person in America.
But Bernie Sanders, instead of vociferously condemning the gang up against him and threatening a third party Independent run, he coiled up in surrender. How can the Democratic Party stop such internal meddling with the nomination process when they have not suffered any consequence such as breaking up of the party. But Bernie Sanders is not type of warrior, so he buckled, surrendered the dream and has now even endorsed Joe Biden. Why endorse a candidate chosen by a Party he once called intellectually bankrupt party; a party which have twice now denied him the nomination. What was all the noise about remaking America in the eyes of Bernie Sanders which he sold to his impassioned supporters if this is how it all ended. At 78 years old, this campaign will probably be the last America will ever hear about a presidential candidate named Bernie Sanders and you ask yourself, why did he not make it count.
Such a reluctance by Bernie Sanders to do bloody battle is the reason Hillary Clinton does not respect him and loathes him so much. Why excite millions of people with a promise of a new deal only to now dash their dreams without going to the end of the earth to state his position because of them. That he lacks the killer instinct to take out his opponents is another unfortunate characteristics for any politician to have. Hillary Clinton celebrated the day Bernie Sanders gave her a lifeline during their debate in 2016 with his now infamous aside "everyone is tired of the damn emails" statement. Since that failure to pounce moment, Hillary Clinton never regarded Bernie Sanders as a good political operator and publicly chastised him as an incompetent politician who nobody likes. Now more people will be added to that list because of his betrayal of the progressivism cause.
Everybody knows that Bernie Sanders did not lose the primaries but was schemed out of it by the Democratic Party's establishment, which does not want to lose the control of their party to an outsider, who is not even a member of the party. Former Governor of Vermont, Peter Shumlin, a democrat, publicly confirmed this when he said that the notion that Bernie Sanders would be allowed to lead the national Democratic Party is repugnant, because he is not a Democrat. So if the Democratic Party denied him the nomination because he is not a member of the Party, what then is Bernie Sanders still doing in the Party, trying to help them achieve victory. Why should Bernie Sanders care whether they win or lose?
ICHEOKU says one good turn deserves another and one bad turn deserves another, so Bernie Sanders should have seriously considered a third party Independent run. Win or lose, it will be a way of exerting his pound of flesh and telegraphing the message that he knew what they did. He should have become the Ross Perot and Ralph Nader of 2020, but unfortunately they got him to both end his campaign and also to endorse Joe Biden. What a wasted time with Bernie Sanders his supporters must feel now, even Moses did not do such to the people of Israelites. But Bernie, he is there for himself and he acted as any compromised sellout would, which shows that he was not down with the struggle. On a hindsight, may be Elizabeth Warren would have been a better leader of the progressives.
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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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