GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Sunday, October 2, 2016

ALICIA MACHADO AND TAX RETURNS, DIVERSIONARY DEPLOYS OF A FLOUNDERING CAMPAIGN.

Icheoku says a candidate who has nothing to run on and at best is running on empty and on the fumes of what was said or not said several decades ago is a campaign certainly clutching for any straw to hang on TO in order to stay life. Therefore Donald Trump must understand this needless diversionary ploy and stay laser-focused on what is important to the American people, the real issues in this campaign to make America great again. But unfortunately Donald Trump gave impetus to Hillary Clinton who has touted his very thin skin and how easy it is to get under it even with a little tweet. 

So Donald Trump must show his determination not to succumb to this his stereotyping of being easily provoked by moving and going away from this his perceived weakness and become more presidential and rise above petty little stuff. It is untoward and beneath his status to so readily engage in brawls with a little former beauty contestant and at worst, must leave such low level job for his surrogates and let them handle the Alicia Machados of America and her ilk. It will be bequeathing her an unmerited honor, to stay engaged with her and trade barbs with her. Icheoku says the ability to rise above rudimentary stuff, the kitchen stuff, despite the amount of provocation marks the difference between leaders and the lead. Alicia Machado therefore should not be honored with a response by the future president of the United States of America as it both undeserving and not worthy. 

Here is a washed up former beauty contestant whose veracity for truth is tenuous at best and who denied what was in print, yet the crooked media are not holding her up for her lack of credibility, but are kowtowing her story in their vain effort to bring the Donald down. But they will not succeed and come November 8, Donald Trump will be elected president of the United States of America. Icheoku calls on Donald Trump not to supply any further oxygen to this story and to completely ignore same and instruct his surrogates to answer any further question concerning that with is that the thing that will move America forward and make it great again. Why waste time on such frivolity of what was allegedly said twenty long years ago in the face of the many challenges facing America and the world that needs immediate solutions. Icheoku says henceforth, every talking point and answer should be economy, ISIS and national security - aka Make America Great Again and never a minute be spent on Alicia Machado or any of such distracting nibbler going forward.

On the tax returns, Team Make America Great Again and Donald Trump should shut this tax matter down immediately, categorically telling everyone that the tax returns will not be released, full stop. First it is not a mandatory requirement that a presidential candidate must release his tax returns and secondly, what has releasing or not releasing the tax returns got to do with the issues facing America. Icheoku says Crooked Hillary Clinton is simply trying to divert attention to her lack of new ideas and how to propel America forward. So instead of tabling what he will do for America to drive the narrative forward, she is busy baiting Donald Trump out of his game and out of his positively directed charge to take the White House and Make America Great Again. The fact here is that he filed his taxes and IRS attests to this, any and every other thing about his taxes is strictly his personal affairs, including releasing or not releasing it and if he decides not to do so, it is entirely okay and within his permissible personal act. 

Icheoku urges Donald Trump not to waiver, nor deter and face down all the establishment and entrenched interests trying to bait and switch him out of his game. He should focus on the economy, security and defeating ISIS and the need to bring change to Washington as the candidate of change and not a candidate who has been there for more than twenty eight years and will not change anything. Once Donald Trump stays focused and tunnel-visioned on his message of Make America Great Again and ignore the current distractions and attempt to run him out of town and out of the presidential run, on November 8, he will be elected the forty fifth president of the United States of America. Go Trump; Vote Trump and help make America great again. No more distractions, forward march ever; no retreat, no surrender.

Saturday, October 1, 2016

TAKE THE MONEY, HER NEW MONIKER

TAKE THE MONEY, HER NEW MONIKER
Icheoku says she would do and say anything just to get an advantage. Ms Nasty Crooked Hillary Clinton is so full of it.

Friday, September 30, 2016

OBASEKI IS EDO CHOICE FOR GOVERNOR, WINS ELECTION.

Icheoku says congratulations to APC governorship candidate and now governor-elect of  Edo State Nigeria, Godwin Obaseki. As with every election, the loser always complains of irregularities including rigging, partiality of election officers, unfairness and cheating. So it is understandable, the current rejection of the election result by the defeated PDP candidate Osage Ize Iyamu. 

His protest does not however invalidate the election result or in any other way make it tainted beyond reproach because as with every election, someone will emerge victorious. The spread of the votes and its differential throughout the election areas shows that the collated result is more likely a genuinely contested and fairly won and lost election. There are also circumstances which would have and possibly did help the winner with the election: First the whole apparatus of the state which is APC controlled, backed his candidacy; including an incumbent state governor, a federal government with their police and other security agencies and of course the power of the purse. 


Godwin Obaseki won 13 out of the 18 Local Government Areas of the state with a total 319,483 votes against PDP's Ize Iyamu's 253,173 votes. Icheoku says possibly a precursor of what is to come in 2019, admitted that the APC is not so popular in Nigeria to produce the outcome. But hey, Icheoku says congratulations Godwin and let your campaign promises not go the way of every other APC campaign promises of all promises cancelled. Icheoku says remember to make or create the 100 millionaires within the first 100 days of your governorship as promised. Salute.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

ALICIA MACHADO, A SCORNED ANGRY FAT WOMAN.

Icheoku says like the woman who hired her to do some dirty laundering on her behalf as a surrogate, the too fatty former Miss Universe Alicia Machado wants to be treated differently? She wants double standards - one for her and one for the rest of us. Like Crooked Hillary Clinton, she would rather have one set of rules governing her actions while the rest of humanity including Donald Trump have an entirely different one governing their own actions. Like Crooked Hillary Clinton who never admits to any fault and even when caught red-handed breaking the law, denies responsibility and would rather it is another's fault, this heartbroken loser is up to no good, faced with her so many apparent shortcomings. 

Alicia Machado said that she is not a Mother Theresa but would rather Donald Trump remain a "Father Timothy?" She said she has some not too complimentary past she is not proud of and which she would rather are not discussed nor brought up; but as for Donald Trump, his past must be dredged up? In her own exact words, she said "I have my past. Of course, everybody has a past. And I'm not a saint girl, But that is not the point now." Icheoku says if as by own very admission "everybody has a past", why is it then impossible for her to understand that just like her own wish that her past be not dusted up, that whatever she is now alleging happened in 1996 and similarly belong in the past too and should better be left there? Who is this woman to selectively decide what is the point now and what is not? But birds of the same feather flock together and like Crooked Hillary Clinton, she desires a completely different set of rule apply to her, while the rest of us, including Donald Trump, should be stung out to dry for our own past. Icheoku says really? 

An inveterate liar who denied her own recorded statement  which she made in 1997, wherein she admitted that she had a condition of anorexic bulimia prior to competing in the pageant; only to now switch the story to allege that Donald Trump caused her eating disorder? Icheoku says it is simply inexplicable that any media is giving this scumbag any media time after so shamelessly failing credibility test on national television? Where exactly did Hillary Clinton find this piece of human excrement who has no veracity nor candor? Where on earth did she find this obviously disgruntled angry fat woman, who is out to draw blood? Imagine involving the beautiful Melania and trying to drag her into a matter she is not involved in nor knew anything about? 

Icheoku says what brought about her comparing her "flawless" spoken English to that of Melania, who American people have severally heard speak and should be the judge of who speaks better English? In her words, she said "I think I speak more English than her. I don't see anything about this girl. She's a doll. She's a decoration." Icheoku says if this fat lady is not a living specimen of an angry, scorned woman, then no other living female so qualifies. So what if she speaks "more" English than Melania? So what if the beautiful Melania is a doll and so what if she is a decoration? Icheoku says what's wrong with having a beautiful lady around who is so soothing to sore tired eyes? So what if she is a decoration; at least only good things constitute decoration. Moreso, decorations and dolls do not produce babies, Melania gave birth to a wonderful male child and she is a doting mother and loving wife too. 

Icheoku says this woman possibly made a play for Donald Trump but was shunned and scorned, hence all these pitiful lamentations and unprovoked attack on the one who finally snatched Donald's heart. Icheoku says Alicia Machado does not need to see anything about another man's heart's delight or love interest. It is not her place nor business and she should learn to let men do the deciding about who constitutes a beautiful woman. If she is a lesbian, may be and then should go and find her own woman but must leave another man's choice out of her discuss. Icheoku says simply put, this fat lady is bitter, angry and very mean spirited indeed. 

If "this election has been a bad dream" to Alicia Machado, why is she still sleeping instead of waking up from her bad dream? If "watching this guy again do the stupid things and stupid comments so misogynous and so machista",  why does she not just tune out and stop watching? What took her so long, all these years, 20 long years, before coming out to run her fat wide mouth about an alleged hurt-feeling she had for being made to lose some pounds? She is not a walrus nor a pig and should not engage in binging as only gluttons do. Icheoku says any woman capable of being an accomplice to murder, who threatened to kill a sitting High Court judge, who has done some pornography as well as escort service is simply capable of doing anything just for money. Who knows how much she was paid for her dead on arrival hatchet job and you wonder did the Clinton team vet her before hiring her as their surrogate? 

Icheoku does not know if she got a check from the Clinton Slush Fund for her false witnessing, but promoting a book and some stinky flagrance alongside her fifteen minutes of fame and intrusion into American politics, speaks volume. Alicia Machado is cheap, envious, mean, dirty and desperate woman. A denigrate, who should be avoided like leprosy; she has nothing to lose and such people are more dangerous than a lethal dose of poison. Alicia Machado is a swine and likes fighting dirty in the mud and will not hesitate to drag anyone down the sewer with her. An innocuous and honest comment, made playfully in 1996 to help her, a beauty contestant, shape up is now suddenly horrific? "This is somebody who likes to eat' comment is now suddenly a mean, heartless, fighting, disparaging words? 

Why did she wait for 20 years before crying foul if indeed she felt so violated and humiliated? Luckily enough, she did not throw in groping, rape and/or propositioning accusations against Donald Trump too. Icheoku says how about her not contesting for the pageant or better still seal up the hole in her face, knowing fully well that her stomach is not a dump site where her gluttony forces everything her hands finds down there. How about instead of a Latina being as furious as hell for being called fat, not get fat at all or regulate her binging? The last time Icheoku checked, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera and Colombian queen Shakira are all Latinas and they are beautiful and sightly. If you don't want to be called fat, then don't get fat or better still enroll in a gym. 

In conclusion, Icheoku agrees with Frank Luntz that Donald Trump should concentrate his energy in hammering the Crooked One on important issues of security, national debt and Islamic State terrorism and not waste his much valuable presidential campaign time on a worthless, spiteful, washed up former beauty contest winner. What a  pitiful pity-party daughter of Eve out to do some mischief and she did not resign her Miss Universe office and offload the crown in protest. Simply put, this type of woman is no good and only gives women, especially Latinas, bad name. 

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

TRUMP V. CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, DID NOT LIVE UP TO THE HYPE.

Icheoku says the great debate of our time flustered and floundered, but never took flight, talkless of soaring to the stratosphere as advertised. It was okay at best but did not live up to other more memorable debates of the past with their notable zingers and one liners which still reverberates till today. There was no one liner or zinger, attributable to either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, which anyone would remember few years from now.  The nearest semblance to that was 'it takes one tweet to get under Trump's skin', which  Donald Trump rightly pointed out is so cliched now that it has since lost its weight in gold. Overall it was ordinary and one very short step short of mediocre, rated against other notable presidential debates of yore. There was no electricity nor fiery oratories that would find itself into any political historian's writings down the road. 

Icheoku says Donald Trump fumbled the ball when he decided to be so polite to Crooked Hillary; patronizingly asking her if it is okay to call her Senator Hillary Clinton. A more charging Trump would have rephrased the compliment by saying, hopefully, you will help convince me to drop the moniker Crooked Hillary by the end of this debate. Provided of course you convincingly tell American people why the name is not appropriate based on your known past records and continuing activities of connivances and contrivances as well as hiding stuff and deleting many things. My promise to you is that I will drop and cease to use the moniker if you do the following:- 

1. Explain to American public why you deleted those 33,000 emails and took further steps to prevent their being never raced by the FBI by bleach-washing them. 
2. Why you hid and refused to allow American people see those Wall Street beautiful speeches that you were paid over $600,000 to deliver. 
3. Why your staff took hammer to those thirteen communication gadgets which you used to engage your private servers hidden in your basement, which you lied and said was only one. 
4. Why you diverted your official communication to private servers hidden in your basement. 
5. Why you told the Benghazi lies that it was a video and not terrorists act that caused the mayhem that claimed four American lives including our Ambassador Stevens. 
6. Why the activities of the Clinton Foundation is shrouded in secrecy and why as Secretary of State you engaged in pay for play antics to the benefit of the foundation. Did you ever consider resigning and distancing yourself from the foundation while secretary or did you not see the conflict of interest. 
7. When you told the FBI that you had a memory lapse regarding security briefings, did you tell the whole truth? 
8. Is there any possibility that American people will ever get the opportunity to see you undelete those deleted 33,000 emails so that they could actually understand what it is you were trying to hide by taking those actions you took regarding them. 
9. And lastly, when you said that you did not understand the markings "C" on correspondences, did you tell the truth? Once you answer these questions to enable American people understand them, I pledge on my honor to never again call you Crooked Hillary Clinton or use that moniker Crooked Hillary Clinton in any other way. 

But none of these questions were thrust upon Crooked Hillary Clinton, rather, a trusting Donald Trump started with word of endearment and found himself bound and could not respond when the ever snaky Crooked Hillary Clinton unloaded on him - lying about his inheritance from his father, from a previous $2 million figure claim to now hyper-inflated $40 million; mentioning his disparagement of women; his shafting of his staffers and contractors etc. Icheoku says imagine a candidate who lives in the proverbial glass house throwing stones at Donald Trump and she was not stopped. She had the guts to question what Trump was hiding by not releasing his tax returns but forgot that she hid her Wall Street speeches, deleted and bleach washed 33,000 emails as well as hid her medical condition as well as records thereof. That she refused being taken to the hospital for fear that her condition would be made known to the American people saw her being transported to her daughter Chelsea's apartment in total disregard of known practice of rushing a medical emergency invalid to the ER. 

Hillary Clinton grilled Trump on his making money from possible questionable sources, while forgetting that she and her family has not told American people what product they are manufacturing or selling or what app they wrote from which they amassed a fortune which is in excess of $300 million dollars. How is it possible that a couple who left the White House broke few years ago are now this wealthy? Did they win the lottery or are they being paid delayed bribes and gratuities for favors done while in government? 


When Clinton said in celebration of her orchestrated murder of Muommar Gaddafi that "we came, we saw and he died," followed by a guffaw, did she think that killing a head of state of another country and living that country desolate of leadership and security was a laughing matter? Why treat the killing and death of a human being with such cavalier attitude? When Crooked Hillary Clinton said that voting for the Iraq war was a mistake, did she actually want the families of the war dead and mortally wounded to believe her that their loved ones perished due to a mistake? If the Iraq war was a mistake, was Libya and Gaddafi a mistake too; otherwise why the rush to take out a man who had already repented; who surrendered his nuclear weaponry program; paid compensation for the Lockerbie disaster; handed over accused masterminds who were tried and convicted? Her judgment and rash decisions is simply not good for America and should never be allowed to be the controlling authority in America's decision making process.

Icheoku says why Trump did not call Clinton out on her Super Predators comment and ask her to explain how she could be this racist and now pretend to be a champion for black people? Or her most recent branding of millions of Americans 'Irredeemable Deplorables' and still intend to be their president; and whether her 'Stronger Together' actually envisages or made provision for accommodation and inclusion of these American deplorables? Her claim to be a champion for women, when did it actually begin? Was it after those women who were being paid less than men in her foundation were outed or when? Those women she is a champion of and for, do they include the likes of Monica Lewinsky, Jennifer Flowers, Paula Jones and all those other women victims of Bill's philandering? If not, why not; and if yes, why did she not stand up and be their champion when it mattered most? Lastly, does the name Webster Hubbell ring a bell and whether she can confirm all the rumors associated with that name and her? 

Speaking about her foreign policy experience, how well was her Russia reset button working when Crimea was taken over? Who does she hold responsible for the mess that is present day Middle East including Syria, Libya, Iraq as well as the general Arab Spring experience? Does she still believe that Nigeria's Boko Haram is a "mere Northern Muslim youths protesting North's marginalization by a christian Southern president?' How does she plan to reconcile the security concerns of the State of Israel with the nuclear-arming of Iran deal that saw $1.7 being paid to Tehran which she helped midwife? Why does she want to now rush to visit North Carolina following the riot there but never cared much about visiting Milwaukee, following their own riot nor Baton Rougue following their flood or even honoring Mexican President Nieto Pena's invitation to talk about immigration concerns? 

Icheoku says there were so many spearing moments and opportunities in which Donald Trump would have had the kill shot but which he allowed to go to waste. May be  a function of it being his first ever one on one national political debate, being the outsider he is. Donald Trump's newness to politics did not equip him with bifurcated political grandstanding manner of speaking which the entrenched Hillary does not lack. This forestalled his rebutting adequately those lies piled on him by Crooked Hillary Clinton, who was busy questioning a private citizen about a comment he made on radio when his opinion has no weight whatsoever about the actions of the government. A matter compounded by an apparently partisan party of interest moderator, who was busily doing the hatchet job for Crooked Hillary, putting Trump on the spot but sparing Hillary. A moderator busily questioning a birther issue that was since foreclosed while maintaining silence on Hillary Clinton's own racist Super Predator comment. 

Anyway, Newt Gingrich was right that Donald Trump passed the test of not being scary, untrustworthy or unfit for the American presidency. He did no harm nor caused any damage to his rising poll numbers and remains a great contender with very few steps away from clinching the presidency. Newt Gingrich also declared Hillary Clinton a failure for not destroying Trump, her primary task; nor promised anything new to the American people after her very steeped longevity in politics. Simply put, Crooked Hilalry Clinton belong in the past and America wants to move forward with change candidate Donald Trump. Borrowing Donald Trump's words, if Crooked Hilalry Clinton did not or could not do all that she is now promising all these past 30 years of being in politics, how could she do it just now. In the final analysis, Donald Trump is right that Crooked Hillary Clinton is "all talk no action;" and will not do anything differently than the past eight years, if not worse. The only reason she appeared to have done well in the debate was because she looked nice and well recovered from her fabled moonwalk at 9/11 memorial in New York. She also holed herself in and robotically memorized her lines well too. But nothing will get done under her presidency should the tragedy of her election happen. Put point-blankly, Crooked Hillary Clinton  has nothing on Make American Great Again. Salute.  

Monday, September 26, 2016

BARACK OBAMA: THE LAST MINORITY PRESIDENT OF AMERICA.

Icheoku says delude yourself all you want but truth be told, no minority will smell the White House again; at least not in our lifetime nor any time soon following. The experiment with President Barack Obama did not work out well enough to so soon push another person forward; and no American, particularly white caucasian, would ever stray into that arena again. Anyone still in doubt about the resolve of white Americans not to ever dabble into allowing another minority presidency should take a good look at the presidential tickets of the four parties running in this election 2016, particularly the two dominant parties - Republicans and Democrats. 

All of them have both presidential and vice presidential candidates who are all white caucasians and you wonder why? Not even Democratic Party's Hillary Clinton picked a minority vice presidential candidate, especially coming so soon after a vacating of the White House by a black minority president? It is not as if there are no well qualified minority candidates who would have so easily, dutifully, filled that position, including Senator Cory Booker and HUD Secretary Julio Castro. But nope, the tacit understanding among white Americans is deep rooted and it is that no more minority will be allowed near or so close to the seat of the American presidency, their White House; hence their decision to field an all white candidates for all the parties such that head or tail, a white person will become the next president and vice president of the United States of America.  

Icheoku says the apprehension in the land is palpable, white people are afraid of the existential threat to their stranglehold on power, both political and economic, and they will no longer take chances with anyone else from outside their race toying with their power hold. Obama had his moment in the sun until he screwed it up with his queasiness and indecisiveness. Leaders do not show weakness or touchy-feely knee jerk approach to issues of great concern and Obama did not learn this lesson and it cost him and minorities in general dearly. With him gone, goes too, every other opportunity for another minority candidate to be ever allowed back in the White House, not in our life time. But did blacks and minorities even fare better under the minority president, one may ask? Your guess is as good as Icheoku's and apparently no; and anyone arguing otherwise might as well still be drunk on the first black president's coolaid, What a missed opportunity to really shake things up and improve the fortunes of black peoples of this world. But hey, life goes on.

Sunday, September 25, 2016

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE, ANCHORS.

Icheoku says what a magnificent work of art it is, crafted in the finest of steel, with bronze-hued exterior, which on one side looks like an ark (ship), possibly designed after the many ships in which millions of Africans were forcibly brought shackled down to the Americas. The museum indeed is quite splendid and makes a very powerful presence, standing majestically so close to the Mall of Washington in Washington DC. Icheoku says congratulations to the team that made it possible; who midwifed the project and who finally brought that aspect of American history this up close and in the face. 

They labored in order that people will not forget how long the journey traveled so far by African Americans is; a journey which still continues till today in various forms of roadblocking racist discrimination throughout the country. But in the old negro song, we shall all overcome and as long as we keep the hope alive and keep on marching on. The team did a very great job - from its choice location, design, architecture, construction and finishing; and including of course the many artifacts which were painstakingly collected and assembled therein. Indeed it is a very beautiful and statement-making edifice and hopefully it will become a major draw for tourists and students as well as people from all over the world interested in actually learning about the ugly history of slavery and slave trade which still haunts America till today. 

It is equally a good thing too that the museum which was authorized by a white president George Walker Bush in 2003 was completed and opened during the presidency of a black president Barack Hussein Obama in 2016; thus once again bringing the two races that constitute America historically,  crossing paths and making another history all together. In his remarks at the opening ceremony, President GW Bush called the  museum "fabulous" and said "It shows our commitment to truth. A great nation does not hide its history, It faces its flaws and corrects them."  Representative John Lewis who led the struggle to have the museum built, said "This place is more than a building; it is a dream come true." 

The museum choreographs a history steeped in rich struggle for freedom and equality, from slavery to civil rights to the latest Black Lives Matter movement and every other thing in between. Icheoku says it is a "clarion call to remember" the past and the journey so far, but whether this sordid past will continue to plague and hound present and future generation of black Americans, who will always feel intimidated by their story, is a possibility. 

According to Peter Kovler, "How can you fail to see the links between current events - Charlotte, Tulsa, Black Lives Matter - and the brutal death of Emmet Till all those years ago. You have to be deliberately not looking at things to not see that there are things from that era that still applies to our era." Another woman said "it was dangerous then to be black in America and it is still dangerous to be black on America now." President Barack Obama bemoaned that blacks are not a burden to America and in his own words, said  "We are not a burden on America or a stain on America or an object of pity or charity for America. We are America." Icheoku says whether white Americans agree to this statement is an entirely different matter all together. Overall, a good structure and curation of stories history of black peoples struggle and contributions in America.

Saturday, September 24, 2016

TED CRUZ'S ENDORSEMENT, STILL A WELCOME ADDITION.

Icheoku says all deplorables of America as well as other non deplorables, who are collectively vested in the Make America Great Again agenda, heartily welcomes the endorsement of Senator Ted Cruz of our flag bearer and chief spokesman of the movement Donald John Trump, who by special grace of God, will be elected the next president of the United States of America. That Ted Cruz finally came around is commendable, admitted he took a little too long before arriving at this epiphany. 

There is nothing so joyful like being on board a winning team's train or boat; and luckily for Ted Cruz, he did not miss the cruise boat sailing to the White House. Thankfully, Ted Cruz was able to find the sportsman in him to come through with this needful act. He also brought out the gentleman in him by honoring a primaries commitment he made to endorse whoever finally emerged the nominee of the party. Icheoku says admitted the primaries was rather very contentious and albeit ultra competitive, but at the end of the day only one presidential candidate can emerge and one did in fact convincingly emerge; so why Ted Cruz strung out this far before coming through with his endorsement is a matter better left until post election victory deliberations. 

Hopefully the other 16 members of the Class 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries will similarly come through with their endorsements and honor their various primaries commitment to endorse the party's nominee, and when they can still honorably do so before the November election is won without their effort. Particularly of note are Ohio State Governor John Kasich whose state is very important in this election; JEB Bush of Florida despite his father's bizarre endorsement of Crooked Hillary Clinton; Ron Paul of Kentucky and Carl Fiorina; and hopefully she is no longer mad for  the "look at that face" comment. This four former contenders for the nomination are about the only ones still visibly missing inside the Team MAGA train and Icheoku will like to see them onboard immediately.  

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in Mark 9:40 rightly taught us that he who is not against us is with us; and on this note, Icheoku says welcome aboard Ted Cruz as ever vote counts. In as much as Donald Trump would have won both Texas and the national election without Ted Cruz's endorsement and/or support, but any endorsement is good endorsement as it only adds but does not remove from the movement's support. Icheoku says will not necessarily try to second-guess Ted Cruz's motive, but says his wife being allowed to return to her job at Goldman Sachs, seeing that Donald Trump will win, as well as revved up pressure by vice presidential candidate Mike Pence and other evangelicals of America possibly forced his capitulation. 

Icheoku says Ted Cruz would have given this endorsement when it would have weighted most, at Cleveland; but he lost his mojo and thereby blew away the golden opportunity to truly attain political greatness. His endorsement coming now and so very late into the campaign and so close to the election, it will be valued and treated for what it is, a reluctant gift made just for the heck of it. But regardless, it is still a welcome development as better late than never is always preferred. Moreover in politics, the more the merrier holds true as with many people comes many more votes.

In his own words of endorsement, Ted Cruz said:-
"This election is unlike any other in our nation’s history. Like many other voters, I have struggled to determine the right course of action in this general election. In Cleveland, I urged voters, “please, don’t stay home in November. Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket whom you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution. 

After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump. I’ve made this decision for two reasons. First, last year, I promised to support the Republican nominee. And I intend to keep my word. Second, even though I have had areas of significant disagreement with our nominee, by any measure Hillary Clinton is wholly unacceptable — that’s why I have always been #NeverHillary

Six key policy differences inform my decision. First, and most important, the Supreme Court. 

For anyone concerned about the Bill of Rights — free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment — the Court hangs in the balance. I have spent my professional career fighting before the Court to defend the Constitution. We are only one justice away from losing our most basic rights, and the next president will appoint as many as four new justices. We know, without a doubt, that every Clinton appointee would be a left-wing ideologue. Trump, in contrast, has promised to appoint justices “in the mold of Scalia.” For some time, I have been seeking greater specificity on this issue, and today the Trump campaign provided that, releasing a very strong list of potential Supreme Court nominees — including Sen. Mike Lee, who would make an extraordinary justice — and making an explicit commitment to nominate only from that list. This commitment matters, and it provides a serious reason for voters to choose to support Trump. 

Second, Obamacare. The failed healthcare law is hurting millions of Americans. If Republicans hold Congress, leadership has committed to passing legislation repealing Obamacare. Clinton, we know beyond a shadow of doubt, would veto that legislation. Trump has said he would sign it. 

Third, energy. Clinton would continue the Oba ma administration’s war on coal and relentless efforts to crush the oil and gas industry. Trump has said he will reduce regulations and allow the blossoming American energy renaissance to create millions of new high-paying jobs. 

Fourth, immigration. Clinton would continue and even expand President Obama’s lawless executive amnesty. Trump has promised that he would revoke those illegal executive orders. 

Fifth, national security. Clinton would continue the Obama administration’s willful blindness to radical Islamic terrorism. She would continue importing Middle Eastern refugees whom the FBI cannot vet to make sure they are not terrorists. Trump has promised to stop the deluge of unvetted refugees. 

Sixth, Internet freedom. Clinton supports Obama’s plan to hand over control of the Internet to an international community of stakeholders, including Russia, China, and Iran. Just this week, Trump came out strongly against that plan, and in support of free speech online. 

These are six vital issues where the candidates’ positions present a clear choice for the American people. If Clinton wins, we know — with 100% certainty — that she would deliver on her left-wing promises, with devastating results for our country. My conscience tells me I must do whatever I can to stop that. We also have seen, over the past few weeks and months, a Trump campaign focusing more and more on freedom — including emphasizing school choice and the power of economic growth to lift African-Americans and Hispanics to prosperity. 

Finally, after eight years of a lawless Obama administration, targeting and persecuting those disfavored by the administration, fidelity to the rule of law has never been more important. The Supreme Court will be critical in preserving the rule of law. And, if the next administration fails to honor the Constitution and Bill of Rights, then I hope that Republicans and Democrats will stand united in protecting our fundamental liberties. Our country is in crisis. Hillary Clinton is manifestly unfit to be president, and her policies would harm millions of Americans. And Donald Trump is the only thing standing in her way. A year ago, I pledged to endorse the Republican nominee, and I am honoring that commitment. And if you don’t want to see a Hillary Clinton presidency, I encourage you to vote for him.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

BRANGELINA GONE WITH THE WIND TO SPLITSVILLE?

Icheoku says is there anyone out there who convincingly believes that marriage works or is it a mere societal imposition on people to keep them in bondage of misery and always struggling to be freed? What exactly is the demon afflicting marriage or is the demon itself hiding in plain sight in marriage itself? It is always one story after another, especially of couples who seemingly have a perfect marriage only to later surprise people with their announcement of gone their separate ways? 

Icheoku like every other commentator can only second guess the root causes of the trouble with marriage, as no one can with specificity and assured certainty zero them down to exactitudes. To say that the latest travel to the land of Splitsville by the Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt was surprising is indeed not true. What is rather surprising is that they lasted as long as they did, nearly, twelve years together. Icheoku says either parties could readily score anyone of the opposite sex they desired, both are good looking, famous and rich, the right resume for any single and available. So short of a burning love for each other, nothing else would explain their longevity in matrimony thus far, all things considered and their very high profile life taken into view too. 

Icheoku says irrespective of which party pulled the out-lever, the fact of the matter is that Angelina and Brad loved or tolerated each other long enough for anyone to conclude that they tried. So whatever it is that finally did them in was one such of a helluva issue that had neither a remedy nor an alternative. Many a man would not accept an Angelina Jolie with so many weird interests and a lifestyle steeped in near mythology, both as a wife and mother of his children, her feminine beauty notwithstanding. It takes a really good loving man to marry a woman who once had a veal of blood pendant of a love; who tattoos her body like it is going out of fashion; whose love for strangeness is indeed unnerving; who adopts children left, right and center from everywhere and who not too long ago had health scare leading to double mastectomy; flies airplanes and is busily engaged 24/7. 

What time does she actually have for Brad Pitt, working full time, both as an A-List actress, United Nations ambassador and mother to so many children from diverse backgrounds. Icheoku admits that Angelina Jolie is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, but there is more expectations in a wife other than just how pleasant to the eyes she may be. However, the fault might not just be solely Angelina's as Brad, like every other human being, is not infallible. So far they are not telling what exactly finally broke the camel's back and until then, Icheoku is not in a position to say with certainty who did what resulting in the divorce; but the above observations are merely what their name say - observations. Between them, they have gone through some marriages before: Brad was previously married to Jennifer Aniston and Angelina to two men prior, Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton. 

Icheoku says like with every other failed marriage of the past, ego and selfishness likely played their usual pivotal roles in the Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt divorce. The feeling and acting out like "am better than the other party; am the reason for the season of the marriage and without me the other guy amounts to nothing attitude" is usually the bummer, marriage killer. The "me, me and more me, take it or leave it, my way or the hit the road Jack highway," attitude, that spells doom and seals the fate of marriage and many other relationships possibly played a role here too. As always, the victim-party, would stoically take all that are being shoved down the throat until he or she cannot take it anymore. Like one woman once explained, a working marriage is one lived like a dog and dog owner, where party A dictates everything and party B merely says 'Yes Honey"; begging the question for how long would anyone party continue to robotically answer this "Yes Honey?" 

Most times, many parties are left wondering why 'did I get married;' which one woman explains is the reason why some people cry on their wedding day, rehearsing what awaits them going forward - a life lived in agony, sorrow and tears and sometimes even blood. Icheoku does not hold anything against anyone who cannot take the heat anymore and decides to bolt away. A divorce is still a far better option than a homicide; and spousal homicides are increasingly becoming a way out of many bad marriages. But is it worth it? Life will go on and just like both parties moved on from their previous marriages, they will similarly survive this current divorce and will move on to some other person, if they so desire. Until then, Icheoku says what Mr & Mrs Smith put together, something terrible has put asunder; and the only one possibly now laughing must be Jennifer Aniston, the other woman who was once left by Brad for Angelina. Icheoku wishes Angelina and Brad best of luck in their future dealings. 

Sunday, September 18, 2016

OBAMA FABLED LEGACY, WHAT LEGACY ARE THEY ANYWAY?

Icheoku says for a man so obsessed with himself and who sees everything through the Obama lens, many were not surprised watching him mouth off about preserving his legacy. The president was at a Congressional Black Caucus event, touting his steeped legacy and how he wants black people to troop out en-masse and vote for Crooked Hillary Clinton as that is the only way to ensure the preservation of his legacy. According to the president, it will be a personal insult to him if black people do not vote in this election and thereby make Donald Trump's victory an easier one. 

Icheoku says what exactly gave the president the impetus to say this and how does he know that blacks who are voting in this election are so satisfied with his government that they would want to continue with it through Hillary Clinton? How does the president even know to second-guess that black people have forgiven Crooked Hillary Clinton for disparagingly branding them Super Predators to want to vote for her? Why did the president not insist that Crooked Hillary Clinton chose a black vice presidential candidate Cory Booker as many had anticipated and expected; to ensure that black people will feel they have a dog in the fight to want to give it their all to vote to elect Crooked Hillary Clinton. 

But nope, he would rather come down with a marching order, do as you are told and vote for the Queen of the plantation, Crooked Hillary Clinton. Icheoku says what is in it for black people that they should once again vote because Barack Obama said so. What did they benefit from the 99.9% vote and feverish support they gave to Obama through out the past eight years to motivate another such a-la-carte plunge into obvious failed policies. 

The president who spoke as guest of honor at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner said: ""If I hear anybody saying their vote does not matter, that it doesn't matter who we elect -- read up on your history. It matters. We've got to get people to vote. I will consider it a personal insult -- an insult to my legacy -- if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election. You want to give me a good sendoff? Go vote." 

Icheoku says which history is the president talking about and which elected president ever took the black cause fervently, including the first black president himself, to warrant this appeal to communal herd block voting. Why did the president not drum a similar message right into the ear of Crooked Hillary Clinton that if she wants black peoples vote, she must chose a black vice presidential candidate? Why did the president not insist it was going to be Cory Booker or no deal at all in black support of Hillary Clinton? Icheoku says no one is in chains anymore in America, therefore the president has no right whatsoever to give out marching orders to black people to vote as instructed. Crooked Hillary Clinton is not anybody's Queen that must be obeyed and plantations no longer exist in America except in the minds of those who have not mentally freed themselves from herded bondage. 

What personal insult is the president talking about and who cares anyway how he feels about how black people vote. A president who disappointed so many black people with so many unfulfilled expectations and under whose watch many black people have been killed in America both by the police and gangs, is here talking about personal insult? Was it not a personal insult on black people that the mayhem in Chicago is continuing under his watch without a far-reaching intervention by the government to reign it in? How about millions of black people who have been forced out of their job places by policies of the president which is more interested in pleasing other races and pandering to other interests than the black people. 

Was it not a personal insult to black people that so many black people have lost their homes under a black president? How about the increased dysfunctionality among black families with continued high incarceration and longer prison sentences? What exactly does the president think is the incentive here for black people to go out and vote as instructed and not boycott the election since they have no dog in the fight. Icheoku says a President Barack Hussein Obama, desirous of preserving his legacy would have set out initially establishing some legacy to be preserved. But nope, he hightailed and is now coming back to shamelessly mouth off preserving his legacy. Icheoku says which legacy are we talking about anyway that need to be preserved Mr President? 

Possibly the legacy of red lines that was drawn without consequences following their breach? Possibly the legacy of Arab Spring and the attendant mayhem that is still consuming the entire Middle East and some parts of North Africa? Perhaps the legacy of murdering a repentant Muommar Gaddafi who ponied up his nuclear development; paid restitution for the Lockerbie plane disaster; handed over two of the intelligence officers implicated in the planing and carrying out of the bombing, who were convicted and sentenced. May be the legacy of not visiting the country with the highest population of black people on earth, Nigeria, and think that black people will not remember that slight? 

Possibly the legacy of refusing to come to the aid of Nigeria under attack by Boko Haram Islamist terrorists including refusing to sell weapons to them with which to fight off the menace and discouraged other would be alternative weapons sellers from so doing? May be the legacy of not granting Africa any special free trade status with America like he pursued with other geographical regions of the world? May be the legacy of not helping solve any African economic and political problems? Possibly the legacy of trying to force sodomy on African countries and possibly the legacy of bathroom laws in America? 

Icheoku says should black people be excited about the legacy of a black president who never lighted the White House in black or other African colors during Kwanza weeks while the same black president have lighted the White House green for Irish Saint Patrick's day; rainbow colors for Gay Pride weeks etc? A president who readily goes to commiserate with other races whenever they are killed but who has ever visited the blacks killing field that is Chicago. What exactly is the legacy the black president wants black people to be so enamored with preserving that they should care about helping the president preserve it? 

Icheoku bemoans that President Barack Hussein Obama has never surprised himself before as he did at the Congressional Black Caucus, thinking that he still holds any special place in the hearts of millions of black people. The greatest nightmare facing the president is barreling down the pike and on November 8, he will be shocked at the percentage of black people who will telling him to take a hike as they vote to elect Donald Trump. Icheoku says President Barack Hussein Obama has no legacy with black people to preserve. Further, black people are not buying into the nonsense that they have any inheritance in the presidency of Crooked Hillary Clinton and will not vote for her either. The president is rather afraid that his government will be investigated and is trying to protect and shield himself from possible long prison sentence with the election of Hillary Clinton; and is masquerading it as a need to preserve a non existent legacy. Who is fooling who, Mr President? 

Saturday, September 17, 2016

CROOKED HILLARY CLINTON, AN IRREDEEMABLE HYPOCRITE.

Icheoku says the good Lord must have factored in Crooked Hillary Clinton as similarly implicated when speaking about the Pharisees in Matthew 23:3; otherwise how else could anyone explain the ever meandering candidate, who believes that American people are too deplorable to remember her tall history of contradictions and associated brazen lies. A candidate who speaks from both sides of her mouth and who often vomits some unprintable contempt for others and feigns ignorance or loss of memory when confronted with her vomit is now holding out on something that is not even hers to drag out. Crooked Hillary Clinton is a drowning candidate who is on a free falling presidential polls and is not desperately trying to cling to any straw her craw can catch or snag. 

Now her latest antic is trying to dredge up an old remark in order to divert attention from her plummeting poll numbers.  Icheoku is emphatic that her latest attempt to resurrect a long resolved birther question of President Barack Hussein Obama will not catch momentum. The matter remains conclusively resolved and  Donald Trump said as much himself. Good enough too, the final seal of approval of resolution of th matter was affixed by President Obama who said that the matter stands resolved and should be allowed to rest. According to the president, there is no need re-itigating the matter again and not in this election, in face of more challenging mountain of problems facing America.  

But the crookedness of the Crooked One is in overdrive as the rotten dirty lying Crooked Hillary Clinton refuses to let it go. In her reaction to Donald Trump's affirming that Obama was born in America, Hillary Clinton retorted that Donald Trump should not be allowed to make the affirmation. In her usually very warped and senseless analysis and questionable flawed judgment, Hillary Clinton said that Donald Trump should not be allowed to take back his former insistence that President Barack Obama should conclusively prove his born in America constitutional requirement to be president. What a farcical daughter of Eve this Hillary Clinton is.

Icheoku says nobody walking the grounds of the United States of America is least qualified to make this demand than the Crooked Reject of American politics, Hillary Clinton. This is a candidate who have severally compartmentalized and branded American people with the worst slurs ever known to mankind, later apologized when called out on them, then asked to take them back and claimed to have taken them back. Icheoku never recalled an instance when Crooked Hillary Clinton was refused her request to take back those slurs; but here she is trying to serve another person the bitter pill she will not herself swallow? 

Purposefully feeding someone what one would not take herself is poison defined and she has no scruples nor compunction poisoning anyone who stands in her way to achieve her unbridled lust for power grab. Colin Powell was definitely right that Crooked Hillary Clinton has an unbridled ambition for power and that everything she touches she ruins. Further, Barack Obama said too that Hillary Clinton will say and do anything just to get elected and now she forgot to first look in the mirror before her latest antic. If only Crooked Hillary Clinton is a christian, she would have advised herself properly on the first take out the log in your eyes admonition of our Lord in Matthew 7:5 before making her latest foray into her usual land of contradictions. 

Crooked Hillary Clinton called African Americans "Super Predators" and held that believe for several decades without ever having a rethink or repentance until few months ago when she was confronted for ever spewing out such disparaging slur. Icheoku says but for her pandering to African American votes, she would not have taken that remark back; yet she took it back and no one ever chastised her nor insisted that such a racist remark is too demeaning to be allowed to take back. But the sanctimonious Crooked Hillary Clinton was quick to condemn and judge Donald Trump, insisting that a remark so long ago made which did not disproportionately impact anyone should not be taken back. Now you see Hilary Clinton being Crooked Hillary Clinton and very selectively pious.

Yet being the tone-deaf bimbo she is who does not care a hoot about any other person but herself and who would do anything and say anything to get elected, Crooked Hillary Clinton again pigeonholed millions of Donald Trump's supporters, branded and bunched them in a basket of deplorables. In her own words, she called everyone and anyone constituting the one half of Trump's supporters lost in a basket of deplorables. She was called out on this highly offensive remark and she mouthed a shallow regret and said she took the slur back; yet she is quick to condemn another person who similarly ended a mere inquiry into a certain contested validity. Icheoku says a screaming evidence once again that Crooked Hillary Clinton is not a Christian nor reads the bible otherwise she would have learned from John 8:7 not to be too judgmental of others who did far less and committed far less than her many infra digs. 

Icheoku will not belabor this matter as so many instances of the Crooked One putting her foot in her mouth only to later regurgitate it abound; but she will not hesitate to rush off in condemnation and criticism of others for doing less. The good news is that Crooked Hillary Clinton is running on empty and as Colin Powell rightly pointed out, is not transformational and has been around for too long. American people desire and deserve a change and Crooked Hillary Clinton is not that change they want nor can believe in. Icheoku says come November 8, all the deplorables of America as well as every Super Predator in America will. together and alongside other Americans she is yet to brand,  vote to change direction. Icheoku is emphatic that no sane person wants to continue in the direction America is currently going and will vote for change and luckily Crooked Hillary Clinton is not that change. 

Thursday, September 15, 2016

STRONGER TOGETHER: EXCLUDES BASKET OF DEPLORABLES?

Icheoku says what an irony of no mean magnitude that a candidate who goes about publicly preaching "Stronger Together", would simultaneously in her private moments with big donors and people drunk on the Clinton coolaid, be this divisive and derisive. Crooked Hillary Clinton divided Americans into three - those supporting her candidacy, those supporting her opponent whose grievances are genuine and then those others still supporting her opponents who are irredeemable deplorables. 

According to her, this category of Donald Trump's supporters belong into a basket of deplorables. Icheoku says for a candidate who went into a tizzy because illegal aliens were called out as well as the need to control our borders emphasized, to now call out fellow Americans as illegitimate losers is indeed very mind numbing.  Then ask yourself in the event an accident of her presidency happens, where she plans to ship off these no do gooders of America who are currently wasting away in a basket of deplorables? Hillary Clinton, always putting her for in her mouth. What a deplorable human specimen who thinks that millions of hardworking Americans are a piece of excrement. 

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

OBAMA HAS NOTHING TO BEQUEATH HILLARY, THE THRILL IS LONG GONE.

Icheoku says President Barack Obama can campaign all he wants, from now until November 7, but he will not a needle move in the direction of the Crooked One. First, he has since lost his mojo and the tingling feeling he once elicited on some americans including Icheoku is no longer there. Second, the Crooked Hillary Clinton he is trying to resurrect her campaign is damaged and disliked so beyond reproach that nothing the president would do now would a person sway in her favor. Lastly, black Americans who gave then candidate Barack Obama close to 96.1% of their votes are turned off and would not show up in this election. So what exactly is the good the latest waste of time that is Philadelphia's solo campaign by the president and others similarly lined up going to do to Crooked Hillary Clinton? 

Icheoku in answer says nothing, zilch, nada. Instead it is going to stir more resentment especially among those who can't wait to see Barack Obama out of the White House and also in those who cannot believe that Crooked Hillary Clinton rejected a highly recommended would have been black vice presidential vice candidate Cory Booker in preference for her fellow white caucasian, the hillbilly from Virginia Tim Kaine.  So for those black people and other minorities of America, who are used since this past eight years of seeing a black minority president family in the White House, to now face the stark reality that there would not be any more colored faces in the White House this time, especially from Hillary Clinton's side, is simply too big a shift for them to bear. Such betrayal  will be treated by them as the height of total disavowal of their black president. At least honor his trailblazing legacy with a replacement vice president, they would argue.

So what then is in it for them afterall, they question? Why would they pull for either of the candidates since they have no inheritance in any of them, especially in the Clintons? Like the people of Israel said to Joshua, blacks and other minorities of America are saying loud and clear that they have no inheritance in the House of the Clintons and to their tent they have recoiled and would most likely watch the elections on televisions from the comforts of their living rooms. For them, white people have taken back their presidency, a fact made more succinct when Hilalry Clinton rejected a recommended black Cory Booker and latin Julian Castro and settled for an equally white guy. So what is there for these minorities to fight for and having no dog in the fight for th presidency, they have lost the enthusiasm and the will to go on putting their skin in the game. 

Icheoku says a none racist and right thinking Crooked Hillary Clinton would have deployed this masterstroke handsomely and today would have opened a wide lead against her opponent with the added frenzied minority support, so excited in their desire  to still retain some minority faces in the White House. But nope, she didn't, couldn't and wouldn't; not an option for a white bimbo who called black Americans Super Predators and few days ago upped the ante of her insulting remarks by calling over 14 million Americans despicables. So Icheoku says President Barack Obama is running on empty in backing a tired old mare without the support of any of his core constituency of voters - not the youthful voters, not the Hispanic voters and of course not the black voters. 

The easily excitable youthful voters wanted their Bernie but the conspiracy of Crooked Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman Shultz deprived them of that choice and they are still hurting. The Hispanic 'si se puede' voters wanted a real Spanish vice presidential candidate like Julian Castro to compensate them for all their age long support for the Democratic Party and not a white guy who merely speaks Spanish. Then of course, the black voters who wanted a retention of some black faces in the White House, especially so soon following a black president. Cory Booker would have supplied this need, but he was rejected by Hillary Clinton, acting in concert with the white peoples unspoken resolve to get rid of blackness from their White House and went for a 100% white caucasian candidates for both parties. 

This certainly makes it a very tall order for the president to fill trying to sell Hillary Clinton to American voters; and you wonder why try if you know you are going to fail. That the tears and excitement of 2008 and 2012 are long dried and never coming back to those expectant faces, many of whom were disappointed in the many unfulfilled dreams of this past eight years, is also a fact of great consequence in his belated effort to help elect Hillary Clinton. 

Moreso, Americans are craving for change and Americans will vote to change the current direction of this country including a knee jerk foreign policy which has left the world more fractured today than it was in 2007. Icheoku says there is no American who wants to continue with the trajectory of the failed leadership at the world stage, leading to the rise of Iran, North Korea as well as the continuing intransigency of a now more emboldened China and of course Russia. The case of Russia is more troubling as many Americans would rather America does not confront Russia which the continuing bellicose is suggesting is now becoming more likely than not. What Americans are hearing from Donald Trump concerning possible rapprochement with Russia is encouraging and they are ready to give peace with Russia a chance. 

Icheoku says for President Barack Obama to have lost Icheoku's support shows that he has lost majority of his fans of 2008 and 2012. He has lost his goodwill among so many blacks of America who were extremely disappointed that his presidency practically left them in worse condition than it met them in 2008. Again, they gave him a remedial benefit of the doubt by voting for him in 2012 but again were disappointed. 

Icheoku makes bold to say that black Americans did not fair better as anticipated under Barack Obama's presidency. Many more blacks have lost their lives under his presidency than during any other time in recorded presidencies. That he has not made out time to visit the killing field that is Chicago Southside to commiserate with the many bereaved African American families is also a strike against him. A matter made worse because he went to Connecticut as well as to Orlando to grieve with the killings of other races. But Chicago Southside with its astronomically high causality, is yet to factor in the president's itinerary, to visit to say sorry for your losses. That many job losses and joblessness among African Americans is still high is a fact too.

Further, the president never lit the White House with black colors in commemoration of Kwanza; but has repeatedly lit it  green and rainbow colors for Irish Saint Patrick's day as well as Gay Pride week. Motherland Africa did not fair any better either; with the president refusing to visit the highest concentration of black people on the face of planet earth Nigeria, while repeatedly visiting other races citadels from China to Japan to Latin America to Europe. Also the president refused to sell Nigerian weapons with which to fight Boko Haram muslim terrorists as they besieged the country laying human lives and properties to waste. But the same president rushed free weapons to Iziddis of Iraq, Iraqis, Syrian rebels, Saudi Arabia etc as they engaged their own security challenges. 

So why would any black person cast his lot in a Crooked Hillary Clinton because Barack Obama said so, when Obama himself did not deliver for black people? If he did not deliver or could not deliver, what guarantees then is there that Hillary Clinton would or that Obama would make her do so? Still wondering why Oprah Winfrey, P.Diddy, Denzel Washington, Ice Cube, Jay-Z and other high profile African Americans have distanced themselves from Obama as well as remained very lukewarm with the prospect of a Hillary Clinton's presidency; afterall she called them Super Predators. They have since abandoned the Obama ship and are not eager to hop on board Crooked Hillary's dinghy either and would rather remain marooned in the  Island of apolitical this time around. 

The joker in this election is that if blacks and other minorities stay out the election, majority of white people will vote to have their White House back and Donald Trump wins; and they will vote Donald John Trump the next president of the United States of America. Obama lost many of black people and he might be the last minority president America will ever have; at least in this century. For all the disappointments and so many hopes dashed and left unfulfilled, echoing Crooked Hillary Clinton, Icheoku says 'shame on you Barack Obama'; this time, for campaigning for a candidate who called black Americans Super Predators. Such very derogatory labelling, calling fellow human beings and fellow American citizens, Harambe the gorilla, is too demeaning and so offensive that it is indeed an unforgivable sin. It will cost Crooked Hillary Clinton dearly in this election. Go Trump; Vote Trump and let the healing begin.