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I was gifted the first volume of @BarackObama memoir , and read it in four days.
Well, #APromisedLand solved a mystery for me, and raised the importance of a couple of things that I didn't fully appreciate about how we choose our leaders, and how they govern.
Well, #APromisedLand solved a mystery for me, and raised the importance of a couple of things that I didn't fully appreciate about how we choose our leaders, and how they govern.
I have often wondered about this short 2014 newspaper clipping in which the reporter writing of @BarackObama taking a walk confesses:
"We have no idea why Obama referred to himself as 'the bear'."
Why indeed? The mystery is solved in the first pages of #APromisedLand .
"We have no idea why Obama referred to himself as 'the bear'."
Why indeed? The mystery is solved in the first pages of #APromisedLand .
"Bar", short for "Barry", @BarackObama's childhood family nickname is pronounced "Bear." Go figure. He carried this with him all his life, as quite naturally we all would.
But his mother asks him "Which kind of person do you want to be?"
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But his mother asks him "Which kind of person do you want to be?"
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1. I have got hold of an advance copy of @BarackObama's #APromisedLand & though i haven't read every page, I did read every bit on India flagged in the Index. Big news: There isn't much. Bigger news: in 902 pages, @narendramodi is not mentioned by name at all.
2. Huge praise for Dr ManMohan Singh who is warmly described as "wise, thoughtful, &scrupulously honest", "a man of uncommon wisdom& decency" with whom he enjoyed "a warm & productive relationship" though MMS was "cautious in foreign policy". His regard & respect shine through.
3. "More than anything, though, my fascination with India had to do with Mahatma Gandhi. Along with Lincoln, King, &Mandela, Gandhi had profoundly influenced my thinking."
But he worries about "impulses of violence, greed, corruption, nationalism, racism,& religious intolerance".
But he worries about "impulses of violence, greed, corruption, nationalism, racism,& religious intolerance".
