‘Rahul Gandhi has a nervous and reportable quality about him’
Key points
- ‘Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave the impression of having a kind of impassive integrity’
- Vladimir Putin reminds Obama of tough and cunning neighborhood bosses who used to run the Chicago machine
- ‘Rahul Gandhi has a nervous and reportless quality about him’
New Delhi: Former President of the United States, Barack Obama, in his memoirs ‘A promised land’ he described Rahul Gandhi as “a student who had done the course work and was eager to impress the teacher, but deep down lacked the aptitude or passion to master the subject.”
He has “a nervous and reportable quality about him,” Obama wrote.
Excerpts from Obama’s memoirs were mentioned by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her book review published in The New York Times.
‘Rahul lacks the aptitude or passion to master the subject’
Obama also mentioned former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as having a kind of impassive integrity.
The former US president also described other world leaders and their traits in his memoirs.
Vladimir Putin reminds Obama of the tough and cunning neighborhood bosses who used to run the Chicago machine. “Physically, he had nothing special,” he wrote.
Calling former French President Nicolas Sarkozy “bold and opportunistic,” Obama said, “his chest was sticking out like a rooster’s.”
Describing former Chinese President Hu Jintao and his quirky way of conducting bilateral talks, Obama said Jintao reads stacks of documents prepared during a private meeting that is so monotonous that he once considered suggesting that “the two of them could save time simply by swapping roles. and read them at your leisure. “
‘Putin likes smart neighborhood bosses; Joe Biden decent, honest and loyal man ‘
Obama writes that he admires George HW Bush’s foreign policy for managing the end of the Gulf War, but did not support the Iraq war. He also sees Afghanistan as a war of necessity.
The former president of the United States described President-elect Joe Biden as a decent, honest and loyal man.
“You could get nervous if you thought you haven’t been given what you deserve, a quality that can come through when you are dealing with a much younger boss,” Obama wrote.
On Sarah Palin, who served as Alaska’s ninth governor from 2006 until her resignation in 2009, Obama said: “Palin had no idea what the hell he was talking about on the subject of governance.
