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In the book “A Promised Land,” due Tuesday next week, Barack Obama reveals details about how his job as the 44th president of the United States marked Michelle Obama’s marriage. Write CNN.
He writes that “despite his wife’s success and popularity, there was a sense of tension grounded in her.”
“It was as if all their previous frustration became more concentrated, more genuine, whether it was around my all-consuming work, or how politics made the family vulnerable to attack and criticism, or the feeling that friends and the family treated their role as less important. “, writes Obama, according to the television channel.
He writes that they were the nights when he “remembered a time when they felt lighter.”
“A time when his smile was more constant and love was less heavy. Then my heart clenched at the thought that those days would never return. “
Barack Obama also describes the love between them when they met, and everything seems to be going well between them now. They have settled in a villa a few miles from the White House.
“Racial anxiety”
In the book, Obama describes what he experiences as “racial anxiety” in the United States, an anxiety that he believes President Donald Trump used to win the 2016 election.
“Donald Trump promised an elixir against racial anxiety for millions of Americans who were intimidated by having a black man in the White House,” Obama wrote.
He continues:
“It was as if my presence in the White House triggered a deep panic, a feeling that the natural order had been disrupted. What Donald Trump understood when he claimed that I was not born in the United States and therefore not fit for president. “
Recognize bad choices
Obama writes that the presidency was marked by difficult elections, internal arguments, and mismanagement from the previous administration. It also highlights your own bad decisions.
He notes, among other things, that he failed to overcome immigration reform and that he did not realize how bad the economy was in the 2010 midterm elections, when Republicans won a majority in the House of Representatives.
The former president writes that the Republican Party became very conflictual and that it influenced some of the daily decisions he had to make as president.
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He takes a hard line against Sarah Palin, stating that the opposition from the Republican Party began when she became John McCain’s vice presidential candidate during the 2008 election campaign.
“Through Palin, it seemed that the dark spirits that had long been hidden in the shadows of the modern Republican Party – xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, racism against black and brown people – found their way to the center.” Obama wrote.
Obama wonders if 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain would still elect Palin “if he knew of his spectacular popularity and that his candidacy would shape a model for future politicians and shift the party’s center and policy in one direction. that he hates. “
“I think, given the opportunity, I would have chosen differently. I think I would put the country first.”
Palin has so far not commented on the allegations.
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The relationship with Biden
In the book, he also describes his relationship with newly elected President Joe Biden and explains why he chose him as a partner in the election campaign:
“I liked that Joe was ready to assume the presidency if something happened to me, and that he could reassure those who were concerned that I was too young,” Obama wrote.
“What mattered most, however, was what my instinct told me: that Joe was decent, honest and loyal. I think he cares about ordinary people and that when the going gets tough, I can trust him. I was going to disappoint.
It is now clear that Joe Biden will be the new president of the United States, despite Donald Trump alleging voter fraud and has filed a number of lawsuits.
On Sunday, Obama speaks on CBS, in his first interview since Election Day.
