MITT MAY HAVE WON THE DEBATE, BUT?

Mitt Romney came charging and mesmerized millions of watching Americans and others world-wide with his "better" credentials to be president. The theater was good, his delivery eloquent and stage presence well felt; but the question bothering Icheoku as well as other millions of Americans is which Mitt Romney showed up in the debate? Is it the Mitt Romney who is very mean and uncaring and who says a lot of bad things about the poor and down-trodden in private? Is it the Mitt Romney who derided 47% Americans as victims and freeloaders? Is it the Mitt Romney who will kill Elmo and PBS? Is it the Mitt Romney who did not pay his taxes and if he did, paid at a rate far below the average rate Joe and Jane Americans paid? Is it the Mitt Romney, the Mormon bishop, who the Baptist Southern Christians called his religion a CULT? Is it the Mitt Romney who speaks on both sides of his mouth depending on the audience before him? The Mitt Romney that showed up in the debate is definitely not the same Mitt Romney Americans have come to loathe so much because of his scary positions on all things that make America a better and caring nation.

Icheoku asks, which copy of Mitt Romney showed up in the debate and bamboozled Americans into thinking that he will make a good president? The problem however is that a man who turns tricks with his positions each time and every time he is cornered lacks the character to be a good president. The problem is that a man who cannot maintain a stand on an issue but pivots as soon as it becomes uncomfortable cannot make a good president. The problem is that a man who does not stand on his words but flip flops constantly and depending on the audience before him cannot be a good president. So America, how does anyone know if the same Mitt Romney that showed up in the debate would be the same Mitt Romney that would show up to govern assuming the accident of his presidency becomes a reality.

This is where the cookie crumbled regarding his stellar performance in the debate and Americans should beware of the product represented in the Mitt. Mitt Romney will force Russia into a shooting war with America if? Mitt Romney will force the Chinese hands too if? Mitt Romney will cause more trouble around the world for America just to prove a point if? So do not be fooled by his Hollywood-styled performance last Wednesday because what you saw will not be what you will get. Icheoku says that Mitt Romney is a fluke, a fake and a fraud and if you are in doubt, just look into his eyes and you will see peering back at you a man who wants to gut everything that sustains your life and living conditions. This Mitt is just too Mean to be president of all. So please don't fall for that display; please don't vote against your interest; please reject Mitt Romney for he stands against the 99% as well as additional 47% Americans. This November, VOTE OBAMA; he is a steady hand manning the tiller and it can only get better. America we are moving FORWARD, and FORWARD we shall continue to move.

DEBATE NUMBER ONE, MITT OUTFLANKED BARACK.

As the presidential debate number one goes into history books, Icheoku makes bold to say that watching President Obama during the debate left much to be desired. Either he was tired or pissed off at something or indeed did not prepared well enough for the debate. Our verdict, like millions of other Americans and interested foreigners alike that tuned in, it was Mitt Romney's night in Denver. 

However Icheoku disagrees with the margin being ascribed to Mitt's out-performance of the president and would rather state that it hovers around 57 against the president's 51 percentage points respectively. Some good news however is that the debate no matter how erudite and lofty, would not necessarily affect the votes of die in the wool partisans; moreso the topic centered on the economy which is Mitt Romney's strongest argument why he want to be president and President Obama's Achilles heel shadowing his reelection bid. What is Icheoku saying, that Mitt Romney has fired his best and probably final shot and there are two more battles yet ahead, in areas President Obama have succeeded and would take his own pound of flesh then - foreign relations and keeping America safe. May be like Don Corleone said in The Godfather, the economy-debate might be the bad news that is preferably better served first, for President Obama. As going forward with the debates, the Mitt having spent his most lethal weapon can only look as the president takes him to task to explain which Mitt Americans will see as president and why he says one thing in private and says completely different thing when in public? 

Further, it would appear that the president, like millions of other Americans that tuned in, was surprised by the different Mitt Romney that showed up for the debate - a somewhat more amiable and jocularly beaming Mitt, that was entirely different from the stiff and woody Mitt America has been living with these past several months. Icheoku is not a fan but would admit that the Mitt Romney that turned out for this debate left impressions; although not enough to persuade us differently with our priceless vote come November 6. Last but not the least is that Mitt Romney is a seasoned salesman who could easily sell snake oil to anyone or even sand to Sahara desert dweller and so was in a better position to push his sloganeering agenda past a very articulate and methodical president who came across somehow unsure of his positions or was seen deferring so much to Mitt Romney as he constantly used the words "Mitt and I agree....?" 

Anyway be the debate as it may, the fact of this election is that Mitt is very mean and does not and would not care about so many Americans on the bottom of the food chain. However, Icheoku is in agreement that people should be taught rather how to fish than to be perpetually handed fish; but posits that the weaning-off process should be a gradual one as opposed to the cold-turkey approach Mitt and Ryan are saying the would implement. 

So in conclusion, Icheoku says that luckily the campaign still has more than four weeks to go and the auto industry-reliant Ohio and Pennsylvania states would not forget who saved their life-blood when it mattered most and who wanted it junked. Further that a man who would not release his tax records probably has something he is hiding and suffers a credibility question. to be president. That a man who is not consistent but constantly speaks from both sides of his mouth is sure not the type of president America desires or deserves at this time. Needless to add that America is safer today because Osama Bin Laden is gone and we know under whose watch that came to pass. In any event, America, lets allow the president's planted seeds of tomorrow's better and stronger economy mature into a harvest that the plurality of Americans would enjoy and not rush him out the door considering the enormity of the disaster which he inherited from the previous administration. So on November 6, VOTE OBAMA and do not let the president suffer a defeat in the hands of the man who was defeated by Senator John McCain who the president defeated in 2008. Moreso the president has done good job so far and should be allowed to complete his legally tolerable second term.

BACKWARDNESS HAS ECLIPSED NIGERIA - AKINJIDE

"Nigeria is an imploded society which has socially and economically shrunk to a point of recurrent and generalized malfunction because a great deal of its vitality has evaporated as a result of an extensive degradation of its social values and economic capabilities. One only needs to keep both eyes open to observe in one’s daily surrounding the multiplication of supporting evidences as well as the depth to which the disease has penetrated our society." - Richard Akinjide on the occasion of Nigeria's 52nd independence day anniversary. Icheoku says 'beeni' and couldn't agree with the high chief more. The worst case is that the supposed leadership has not identified the fundamental problem militating against Nigeria's awakening and by necessary implication could not succinctly articulate the way forward out of the malaise. Icheoku posits what is 52 years of life if it was a life lived so far without meaning.

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

TRUMP CONTINUES REPUBLICAN'S WAR ON WOMEN.

The blabber mouth birther-in-chief and a Mitt Romney surrogate extra-ordinarier, Donald Trump, has continued the Republican Party's war of rage against women of America. A foul-mouthed one per-center who have deployed very mean and uncomplimentary words against many women of America in the past have now added Ariana Huffington to his list of "his distasteful women." Donald Trump said of Ariana:- "she is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man- he made a good decision."  

Icheoku says when Americans thought they have heard the last of Mitt Romney's people piling on on American women, the man who publicly endorsed him in a Las Vegas hotel comes out charging and like a basal street-person is again calling women names. It is unbecoming of any "gentleman" to trade words with women and publicly too; but hey this is the company Mitt Romney keeps and he wants to president of America. American women, time to rise up and tell Mitt Romney, enough is enough, is now. Tell him you cannot have him in the White House with friends like Donald Trump because he cannot protect your backs from people like him. This November, VOTE FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT AND DIGNITY, VOTE FOR OBAMA.

REPUBLICAN PARTY'S HATE AND BIGOTRY CONTINUES.

Icheoku says when one thought that the Republican Party's war on women and other disparate minorities are too inconsiderate already, here goes another attack on the people of Middle Eastern origin. This time the hateful speech was uttered by a minority group member of the Republican Party originally from Mexico, who called the entire people of Middle Eastern origin trouble-making bomb throwers?

Tea Party-backed Republican congressional candidate from Arizona, Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, a naturalized Mexican-American, said that the life-long goal of people of Middle Eastern descent is cause harm to the United States of America? In her own words, "And those (Middle Eastern) people, their only goal in life is to cause harm to the United States. So why do we want them here, either legally or illegally?"

Icheoku says this is what a typical kettle calling the pot black looks like. Here is a person from Mexico, a country from which illegal drugs smuggling into United States of America as well as its illegal aliens invasion has caused the United States tax payers great harm both in human and material losses. Yet she had the effrontery to paint an entire race with one broad brush of being trouble making bomb throwers? Icheoku says what a gift that keeps on giving as these Republicans are steadily revealing to America who they truly are - a bunch of hate-filled unhappy fellas who would rather every other person who does not look like them or share in their divisive politics left America for them and them alone for good. Please America tell the likes of Gabriela Saucedo that her hatred of an entire race has no place in today's America; except she wants people to believe that all Mexicans are drug and illegal aliens smugglers?

What a mongrel this whoring daughter of Mexico is that would brand the entire swath of people of the Middle Eastern origin as trouble makers. The statement is both imbecilic and idiotic and its author should have no place on the table of America's representatives as the view is completely petulant. This is the type of people Mitt Romney will preside over America with and Icheoku wonders which rational American will let this happen by voting for such divisive party. It shows the fanatics Mitt Romney intends to work with as the congresswoman wanna-be is friends with Mitt Romney's running mate, medicare-killer Paul Ryan (pictured above with the bomb-throwing woman) The warning signs of where Romney and crew wants to take America are clearly there and they are solid red - a vote for Mitt Romney will drastically take America back from the progress of the many past years.VOTE THE FUTURE, VOTE BARACK OBAMA.

JESUS WOULD HAVE FED THEM - NEWT GINGRICH

On being asked what would Jesus Christ do with the millions of poor Americans on and receiving welfare, the disgraced and defeated Republican presidential candidate wanna-be, Newt Gingrich, retorted "Jesus would have in fact fed them." Icheoku asks Mr Gingrich, what then was the primary and continuing purpose of WELFARE (food stamps) or does he not understand that the welfare program is designed to feed these unfortunate members of our American society who are down on their luck? Maybe Mr Gingrich would rather the American government literally perform miracle of the "two fishes and five loafs of bread" each time there are poor American hungry needing to be fed?

The problem with these far right extremists of American politics is that sometimes it appears that their brain goes into sleeping mode whenever confronted with simple basic questions as the response oozing from their mouths are bereft of any logical and analytical component to it. Imagine a welfare critic in-chief admitting that our Lord and Master Jesus, whom he professes to love and serve, would have done the same thing the American government is doing which continues today under President Barack Obama; yet he finds it anti-American the help with feeding the hungry of our midst? Needless to say that the christian in this man enabled him to marry three times and divorced twice including serving divorce papers on a cancer-stricken wife on her hospital bed? Newt Gingrich, Icheoku asks, what brand of Christianity do you practice that does not adhere to the teachings of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ?

It simply does not make sense nor does it add up and one wonders if it is the same Jesus Christ who preached being one's brothers keeper that the likes of Newt Gingrich of the extreme far right wing of the Republican Party profess to also serve. They also love going to wars and this is contrary to the teaching of Jesus Christ who admonished Peter to sheath his sword. It is also important to note that none of their children is enlisted in the US military so it is somehow much easier to send other peoples sons and daughters to go die in senseless wars? America, Newt Gingrich is a surrogate of Mitt Romney and he speaks for The Mitt; so if you are really a true Christian and loves and obeys Jesus Christ, advise yourself properly on how you vote this November because Newt Gingrich's anti-welfare stance is not Christ-like and so goes Mitt. An angry Newt acting in concert with a mean Mitt spells disaster for the safety nets of the needy and hungry of our American society; so inoculate against this America, VOTE FOR OBAMA, he gets it and he will get your back; including "feeding the hungry" of our American society.

VOTING ROMNEY, AMERICA THINK TWICE.

Icheoku says a VOTE FOR ROMNEY is a vote AGAINST YOUR INTEREST except of course you are part of the 1% which is stifling and suffocating the majority 99%. This November election is about proving the majority right that they ain't gonna take it anymore. So prove your democratic majority, 99 per-centers, vote right and vote for he who will protect your interest while fighting mightily to institute a level playing field for every American to get ahead. Icheoku says VOTE FOR FORWARD LEANING AMERICA, VOTE FOR OBAMA.

His first term was used in pulling out the ditched economy from its deep abyss as well as scoring many international relations milestones - at least OSAMA IS NO MORE. Now that he has successfully and correctly repositioned America's enviable leadership role in the world and domestically placed it on the road to full economic recovery once again, let grateful Americans return the favor and show him our gratitude for saving a moribund America from the brink of an assured precipice. By reelecting him and allowing him drive us into the new prosperity during his second term, we would have shown him that all his tireless efforts were not in vain nor were they bereft of our notice.

Do not let the cunning mean Mitt and the medicare-killer Ryan hoodwink you into voting against your interest by wrongly voting for them. A vote for them is a vote you will forever live to regret and in retrospect curse that you ever did; so why do it. If you think that Bush/Cheney was a disaster, then wait for the apocalypse that Romney/Ryan will throw up in the event the accident of their presidency happens. OBAMA was born a 99 per-center and lived it fully until just very recently, hence he understands how it is been with you, the struggling American middle class and under. On the other side of the aisle is a natural silver spoon(er) who was born a 1 per-center, lived and still lives a 1 per-center life and is currently worth in excess of 250million dollars. So tell Icheoku how this Romney will understand your plight, average Joe and Jane American?

Like Senator John McCain who did not know how many homes he has, Governor Mitt Romney does not know what it means to not be assured of the next meal or how the due rent or mortgage will be met. So, your pain is alien to him and he would not give a hoot if his policies meant your having to forgo so much more than the already biting cuts in practically every services. So weigh your options intelligently and make a decision that will not turn around to bite you. Mitt Romney is simply out of touch and voting for such mean-spirited out of touch extra-terrestrial is gonna hurt you and so badly, so don't do it. The anecdote - VOTE OBAMA, VOTE FORWARD!

ICHEOKU SAYS, PUTIN SET PUSSY RIOT FREE!

RAPE DECRIMINALIZED IN REPUBLICAN AMERICA?

Sometimes Icheoku wonders why we are wasting a lot of time, energy and resources trying to bring civilization to the Taliban and other mullahs in other parts of the world when we could be spending such trying to wean our own American Taliban, many of whom enjoy membership of the Republican Party, of their own antiquated ideological moonshine-driven dogmas and believes? Call it whatever you like, but some of these men belong to the stone-age and share so much similitude with the orthodoxy of the ultra-conservative Mullahs of Afghanistan and needs to be re-orientated and revamped psychologically. Hear some of these Republicans mouthing off on some national issues particularly women-victims of rape going through yet another trauma of carrying to full gestation resulting fetuses and giving birth to rape babies:- 'Rape babies are okay?' 'Getting educated is snobbish?' "There is consensual rape' and now the mother of all anti-women's right to their body hogwash, - "there are legitimate rapes?"

If Icheoku had just landed from Mars or woken up from a coma, we would think that it was not in America that a serving Congressman and now Senator wanna-be made such a blatant statement, thus decriminalizing rape by necessary implication. Icheoku queries, if it is "legitimate" then it is no longer rape and by extension not illegal or criminal. Rape is a crime because the sexual assault is non consensual and a violation of the victims body. But Republican Congressman Todd Akin seems to disagree as he believes that some rapes are legitimate? The Republican member of Congress who sits on the House Science Committee and presently a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri, said he does not support abortion for rape victims because "if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." And conversely where unable to do so, she should just have the rape baby, period. Icheoku asks this congressman to please expatiate and take us a step further by explaining to the millions of women rape-victims all over the world particularly in America which type of rape is legitimate? This way, they might truly begin to heal and get over their traumatic nightmare of being violated without their consent. Put in another way, it appears that Republican Congressman Todd Atkin has just removed the crime in the crime of rape, or at least some rapes - his so called "legitimate" rape!

This is atypical of America the beautiful with still many ugly underbelly that a Congressman should entertain such thoughts as rape being legitimate and you wonder if he has a woman for a wife or daughters and what would be his position were they unfortunately to fall victims of rape. This is the problem with these Republicans with their conservative viewpoints as they make no exception to certain circumstances where legislation could be tailored to accommodate certain situational peculiarities. Even the most heinous crime of homicide provides for certain circumstances where the taking of live of another does not amount to murder and also fully exonerates such a killer. But these Republicans would not make exception to their anti-abortion fanatical position and want a raped woman to give birth to a rape baby, whether or not the rapist baby-daddy is an ax-murderer, an arsonist, a bank robber, a child molester or even strangely unknown? It is unfathomable and one wonders what these men's wives tell them at the privacy of their homes or that it is okay to rape women and force them to give birth to such a permanent reminder of the ordeal they went through in the hands of a total stranger as is most often the case.

GANG OF DECEIT, ROMNEY CHOOSE WELL IN RYAN.

In a manner reminiscent of the 2008 Senator John McCain bared-faced lying denial that he never called himself a maverick, Wisconsin Congressman and Mitt Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan's castigation of the Stimulus Package has caught up with him. Here is congressman Paul Ryan, on the surface, vehemently opposed to the economic recovery program but behind the doors requested and collected millions of the stimulus dollars. 

Icheoku says the congressman forgot that records are kept for a reason and now faced with hard evidence as to his complicity,  the congressman Paul Ryan, made a u-turn and now says he requested and received stimulus money for his state of Wisconsin as well as other businesses that lobbied him? Icheoku says is congressman Paul Ryan another hypocrite or what? Another hypocrite in a ticket already parading a hypocrite-in-chief Mitt Romney, and you wonder if this band of hypocrites is what America wants in the White House? icheoku admonishes that America can do better than have a bunch of such phonies in the White House? Only November 4th can tell but Icheoku sure won't be voting for these liars and deceivers of biblical proportion who tell their Tea Party heads to do what they say but never what they do. As for Mitt and Paul, it would seem that different ethics applies to them than the rest of us who were taught that candor means something. Here is a congressman who was castigating President Obama for the stimulus package turning around and grabbing millions of dollars from the same stimulus money for his constituents and you tell Icheoku which manner of man is this Paul Ryan of Wisconsin? 

After repeatedly denying ever taking stimulus money for his constituency, Mitt Romney's "smart pick" for vice presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, has now swallowed his vomit and admitted he requested and received stimulus stash running into millions of dollars. This man who has maintained a vociferous criticism of the economic recovery program and even denied dipping his hands in the stimulus pie as recently as just few days ago, now "recalls" that he facilitated his constituency helping themselves with the stimulus money. Hear him, I'm not one [of those] people who votes for (against) something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money." 

Icheoku says what a Monica Lewinsky moment come to live with Paul Ryan? It will be recalled that former President Bill Clinton was wagging his finger at the nation while denying that oral sex was not a sexual relationship because their was no penetration, except that he forgot in that moment that the mouth is also a hole. Here is Congressman Paul Ryan emphatically pulling a Bill Clintonisque finger-wagging and denying that he "did not request any stimulus money" when evidence of his complicity abound that he requested and received stimulus money in excess of 20 million dollars for his constituency. It would be recalled that in 2009, Congressman Paul Ryan wrote to Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis asking for stimulus money to cover costs on two energy conservation projects in his home state of Wisconsin. In the letter, Ryan said the funds would help create jobs and reduce "energy consumption" in the state. 

This is the man Mitt Romney choose for his running mate, Paul Ryan, in his own words, admitting that the stimulus helped create jobs; yet he uses his forked tongue to harangue the program whenever addressing his dumb and dumber Tea Party anti-government expenditure faithfuls. So Icheoku asks, is Paul Ryan purposely misleading the Republican Party's unthinking base or is he just another unmasked hypocrite within the Republican Party establishment? Finally Icheoku says to Paul Ryan that if the "stimulus money did nothing to stimulate the economy," he should refund the millions of dollars he obtained "under false pretense" that it would help create jobs in Wisconsin back to the government. But icheoku knows these people and they are one heck of shrivelling hypocrites whom our Lord and Master Jesus railed against. Mitt the Mormon and Paul the Liar, what a team of deceitful hypocrites who want to smuggle themselves into the White House without a clear vision as to where this country should be taken to; admitted they loath the poor and minorities of America so much it hurts. What a shame.