THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND THE HACKABEE PROPHESY IN THE UNITED STATES - By Dr. Emmanuel Ojameruaye

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In June 2008, at a Foreign Correspondents’ Club meeting in Tokyo, Japan, Mike Hackabee, a former Baptist pastor, former Governor of Arkansas and GOP presidential contender, warned fellow Republicans not to demonize Obama. He said, "Republicans will make a fundamental if not fatal mistake if they seek to win the election by demonizing Barack Obama." 

He went on to praise America for getting "to a point where we did not see his color but we truly saw his charisma, his message and what he brought to the campaign trail“. This warning turned out to be a prophecy and a curse. I believe he was speaking as an oracle of God, because a few months later, the young community organizer with a “strange” name, Barack Obama, defeated an American icon, John McCain, to become the 44thPresident of the United States. It was a miracle of sorts.

However, despite Hackabee’s warning, many Republicans continued to demonize President Obama and did all they could to “make him fail” and “make him a one-term President”.  Even those who claimed to be “evangelicals” ignored the Biblical injunction: “Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm” (1 Chronicles 16: 2 & Psalm 105: 16) which was reinforced in the New Testament as “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established… Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves” (Romans: 13: 1-2).

In the run up to the 2012 presidential election, the demonization of President Obama reached a crescendo with the “birther movement” spearheaded by Donald Trump, the current GOP presidential front-runner. Again, true to Hackabee’s warning, they made a “fatal mistake” and President Obama was re-elected, defeating challenger, Mitt Romney, a very wealthy American.

In spite of the significant achievements of President Obama over the past seven years, all the current GOP presidential candidates have continued to demonize the President, even though he is not contesting the 2016 election. They have combined this with the demonization of Mrs. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party front-runner who they have dubbed “Obama third-term”. They continue to use the Benghazi incident as their major attack weapon against Hilary Clinton even after this “fatal mistake” denied Kevin McCarthy the Speakership of the House. Lately, they have added the “email scandal”. In all their debates, oblivious of the Hackabee warning, the GOP candidates take their turns to demonize both Obama and Clinton in order to appease their “base”. Even Mike Hackabee has long disavowed his own warning and joined the “demononization” bandwagon. Not surprisingly after the Iowa primaries, Hackabee became one of the first victims of the “fatal mistake” when he suspended his bid for the GOP ticket.
Marco Rubio, who has anchored his campaign on the demonization of Obama and Clinton, took it to a new height when he became “robotic” during the GOP debate in Manchester, New Hampshire on Saturday, February 6, 2016 when he kept repeating “Obama knows what he’s doing” ad neaseum.  The spectacle reminded me of his equally disastrous GOP response to President Obama’s State of the Union address in 2013. 
 It baffling that Marco Rubio thinks that demonization of Obama and Clinton based on hyperbole is a winning strategy. He forgot Abraham Lincoln’s warning that “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”.  To claim that President Obama, who was elected two times is deliberately destroying America is the height of demonization, and it is a “fatal mistake” because most Americans, even those who do not like the President, know that the statement is false.  
What he fails to realize is that if President Obama was eligible to seek re-election for a third term this year, he would have easily defeat all GOP and Democratic candidates based on his performance record. Similarly, by claiming that Mrs. Clinton, a former first Lady, senator and Secretary of State, is unfit to be President because “she lied to the families of the Benghazi victim” and “her email scandal will land her in jail” Rubio has become the false accuser and the judge in his own court.
He does not trust the ongoing investigation or voters to decide whether Clinton is guilty or not. He has blamed himself for his poor performance in New Hampshire and has promised that “it will never happen again”. What he may not know is that the root cause of his poor performance is the Hackabee prophesy. The GOP candidates who continue to make “fatal mistake” of demonizing Obama (and Clinton) will sooner or later face the wrath of the Hackabee prophesy.  
Dr. Emmanuel Ojameruaye wrote from Phoenix, AZ. USA

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