It was prose and poetry and rhythm and jazz and pop and blues all night yesterday on the first day of the Democratic National Convention week. I sat on the edge of my chair as speaker after speaker came out to pay tribute to the grand Ol’ man of Delaware as he took a bow….
The Democratic National Convention begins tonight in the great city of Chicago. 56 years ago, the Democratic Convention held in the same city in 1968 against the backdrop of the Vietnam war as American boys and girls were being sent abroad to give their lives for a cause that the nation could not define. Martin…
Hear this. James Carville is married to Mary Matalin. James is a Democratic strategist. Mary is a Republican strategist. They go on television. They do their job. One bashes the Democrats. The other badgers the Republicans. They come back home, he does the trash. She cooks. They both clean up. They sleep in the same…
Edo Votes on September 21st. With less than 40 days to go, the major political parties in Edo State are jostling for the votes of the people. Akpakomiza has extended free transportation which has been active in Esan land for the past year to Edo South. PDP on the other hand has been running free…
It has worked in the past. It may work again. In 1968, as Vietnam was about to be settled by the Lyndon Johnson Administration, Nixon’s people approached the Vietnamese urging them not to accept a ceasefire deal but to wait for a better deal under his administration. They fell for it. Nixon won and Vietnam…
Elon Musk is a maverick businessman. Trump was the original maverick businessman. One builds Electric Cars, the other builds houses. And then, they begin to diverge. One loves Electric Cars, but the other hates them. What is it therefore that brings them together? It’s hard to tell. On the other hand, Biden/Harris have been great…
“Trump, we know. Biden, we know. As for Kamala, she’s a whole new kettle of fish!” This was a direct quote from Brianna Canberra, a first time voter from deep in the heart of blood red Texas. When two old men were running, one, a very angry man thirsting for vengeance, the other, a very,…
He showed up in Edo Politics in 2007. Since then, he has been a factor, having been Governor, godfather, Chairman of his Party, and then currently, Senator of the Federal Republic. At the end of his tenure in 2016, he hand-picked Godwin Obaseki to be his successor. On the campaign trail—He spoke himself hoarse; He…
Two articles back, in “For good or for malevolence,” I wrote: I wished Biden were not running. Two weeks later, Biden stepped down and endorsed Kamala Harris. Is it not amazing how quickly the world can change in a matter of weeks? Many times, all that is required to bring about great change is a…
It took guts for Biden to step down. It took wisdom for him to endorse Kamala Harris. Any other decision would have caused a bloodbath in the Democratic Party. All is calm now and all appears to be well. There’s no bigger evidence of that than the big crowds showing up everywhere to welcome Kamala…
