For US President Joe Biden, it never rains; it pours. Surrounded by vicissitudes, trials and tribulations, he goes to bed knowing and feeling comforted by the fact that at least in the African American world, he has found grace and acceptance despite his faults.
I shall return to that theme later.
Biden’s troubles started when he had a debate with arch rival and “red-devil” by the name of Donald J. Trump.
Biden (81-years-old) came into the debate looking drugged, walking like a zombie and speaking in a whispery voice that resembled that of Dracula.
His speech and answers were in Gobbledygook and rambling like a drunken sailor.
All hell broke loose.
All his fair-weather friends such as Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmire spoke with forked tongues, saying they loved him in public but feeding the New York Times with negative stories.
To dispel the suspicions that he was suffering from an advanced form of Alzheimer (or dementia) he programmed himself for an interview with George Stephanopoulos, a Democratic party spin doctor.
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That interview, though choreographed failed also. Asked whether he should think of dropping out of the race, his answer served to further inflame the firs.
“If the Lord almighty came down and said: ‘Joe, get out of the race’, I will get out of the race. The Lord almighty is not coming down.”
The New York Times editorial board, which sees itself as the conscience of the nation, asked him to step down.
That newspaper, having secured the visitors’ logbook to the White House, broadcast the fact that two doctors, Kevin O’Connor, MD (neurologist) and Kevin Cannard, MD (Parkinson expert) had visited there eight times.
The alarm bells were set in motion. Biden was far gone with Alzheimer.
Nothing that Biden could do at this time seemed to satisfy the journalistic vultures, who follow cues from the New York Times.
Biden desperate
In a letter at the week-end, Biden found courage to challenge his detractors and traitorous fair-weather friends.
“Many of these guys don’t think I should run. (If so, they) should announce for president. Challenge me at the convention. The list of traitors reads like a Who is Who in the Deep State. The Deep State consists of those men and women who make decisions behind the scenes and use politicians as their pawns, withdrawing their financial and media support at will.
The NYT listed some of these shadowy characters calling for Biden recall (behind the scenes) as congressman Ralph Nadler, former president Barak Obama (considered as the puppet master) and Obama’s advisor David Axelrod.
“I don’t care what those big names think. They were wrong in 2020. They were wrong in 2022 about the (Republican) red wave. Come out with me and watch people react. You make the judgement.”
Biden is reported as having fumed at the fly-by-night traitors.
No matter how big a man thinks of himself, there are times when trials and tribulations visit him that he realizes that some spiritual breadth is welcome.
Together with this thought is a religious protocol first observed by German philosopher Deitrich Bonhoeffer that is a man has never visited a black church in America, he has missed the true meaning of grace or forgiveness.
Biden skipped a scheduled meeting with trade union fighters to attend a black church service.
Bonhoeffer remarked in his memoirs that African Americans have suffered from oppression more than any race on earth, yet they are gifted by the Holy Spirit with the gift of grace, or forgiveness.
As Biden arrived late at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ, the choir sang with gusto by Hezekiah Walker.
I need you to survive
I pray for you
You pray for me
I love you
I won’t harm you with words from my mouth
I love you.
There was nothing presumptuous about that song or the passion with which the saints sang. Biden, more radical than Barak Obama has placed more black faces in his cabinet than Obama whose cabinet was referred to a “White boys club.”
The secretary of Defence, Llyod Austin, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Charles Brown, press aecretary Karin Jean Pierre wears dreads on her crown, United Nations representative, and Linda Thomas Greenfield; all these are earth shattering positions.
Their holders are our brothers and sisters.
Recently Biden, wrote into the US Treasury a US$5 billion fund to be used as a central fund for black universities research into digital and artificial intelligence.
At the same time, at the behest of the Jewish lobby, Biden has done great evil in God’s sight by financing, aiding and abetting the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
Bishop J. Louis Fulton realised that it was not the time to scold Biden but a time to pray for intercession on his behalf. The church founder, Bishop Ernest Morris, also present was 91-years-old.
By comparison, Fulton said Biden was just and a young whippersnapper.
Forgive us for allowing the enemy to drive wedges between us. If we ever lock arms together, there is no election that we cannot win. We are together because we love our president. We pray for our president. We pray that you continue to give him strength.”
In between the Holy sentences, loud AMENS were heard from the saints as they lifted their voices in concurrences.
Whether the prayers of the righteous will save Biden remains to be seen.
*Ken Mufuka is a Zimbabwean patriot. He writes form the US, He can be reached at mufukaken@gmail.com
